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Hi all, hope you've all been doing well.

I have a quick question for those with 10-50 experience.

I'm about to embark on a 10-50 restoration and have met my first stumbling block. I'm sure I could figure it out with a ball peen hammer but im sure one of you has a better approach.

How does one remove the turntable from the motor? Is it just a pry and pray application?

Trust me more questions will come up, I'm just starting on this behemoth.

It’s a friction fit, and the platter is pot metal. Suggest a good long soak with penetrating oil, then some judicious shimming with wooden strips between platter and motorboard, then some gentle tappity tap on a piece of wood or hard plastic on the top of the spindle. You want to build tension underneath the platter before tapping, and be sensitive to the free play between spindle and motor bearings.

It shouldn’t take much tapping.

Ugh, just checked stock, I only have WD40, which I believe is made from the pee pee of fish.

Wish me luck...

Hey! Glad to see you back on here.

Kroil is good if you can get it--and WD-40 is probably OK for this application.

VanEpsFan1914 wrote: Sun Jan 31, 2021 6:48 pm Hey! Glad to see you back on here.

Kroil is good if you can get it--and WD-40 is probably OK for this application.

Thanks! The WD-40, plus the wedges, plus the little tappity tap-tap did the trick.

I'm thinking I'll start a follow the restoration thread so I can ask the plethora of questions that will eventually come up into one single thread.

Just a little additional suggestion: If you want to be sure the turntable will be easy to remove in the future, take some fine grade steel wool to the spindle shaft where it engages the turntable. Do the same to the inside diameter of the turntable. Then wipe a little light weight oil onto the spindle. You'll never have a sticky turntable again, except if there is some other fault.

startgroove wrote: Wed Feb 03, 2021 12:03 pm Just a little additional suggestion: If you want to be sure the turntable will be easy to remove in the future, take some fine grade steel wool to the spindle shaft where it engages the turntable. Do the same to the inside diameter of the turntable. Then wipe a little light weight oil onto the spindle. You'll never have a sticky turntable again, except if there is some other fault.

Thank you! I'll definitely do that! Feel free to follow the restoration process here --> viewtopic.php?f=2&t=48389