Edison double spring motor problems
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2023 10:00 pm
Hi All!
Time to seriously tap into your experience and expertise.
My double spring Schubert Edisonic has not given me any serious problems these past ten years, though when I cranked it up fully to play Edison Long Play discs it often made random clunking sounds (which I blamed on old grease clumps). Well, today (when I tried the same) it went a step further and now it makes a different sort of sound at much more frequent and even intervals (about once a minute). My guess is that one of the springs has broken or popped off its anchor point while the other one remains functional (as the turntable still spins).
Does this sound familiar to any of you? Am I right in my guess? if so, I've got an expensive repair ahead I'm sure (IF I can find someone to do it); or just buy a replacement Edison double motor (recently regreased this time)--a chunk of change as well. I wouldn't dream of messing with this repair myself.
Any advice/comments/similar experiences?
Mindy P.
P.S. Nice thing about the double spring is you can get through a standard disc with very little loss of speed--and of course it's even more needed with long play discs. I'll see what any of you have to say and then plot my next steps.
Time to seriously tap into your experience and expertise.
My double spring Schubert Edisonic has not given me any serious problems these past ten years, though when I cranked it up fully to play Edison Long Play discs it often made random clunking sounds (which I blamed on old grease clumps). Well, today (when I tried the same) it went a step further and now it makes a different sort of sound at much more frequent and even intervals (about once a minute). My guess is that one of the springs has broken or popped off its anchor point while the other one remains functional (as the turntable still spins).
Does this sound familiar to any of you? Am I right in my guess? if so, I've got an expensive repair ahead I'm sure (IF I can find someone to do it); or just buy a replacement Edison double motor (recently regreased this time)--a chunk of change as well. I wouldn't dream of messing with this repair myself.
Any advice/comments/similar experiences?
Mindy P.
P.S. Nice thing about the double spring is you can get through a standard disc with very little loss of speed--and of course it's even more needed with long play discs. I'll see what any of you have to say and then plot my next steps.