Help! Anyone know how to change a turntable belt?

[jilln]

20 year old turntable, new belt ... not sure how it's supposed to go on. The old one is long gone.

[pscot]

1. No

But if you figure it out maybe you can come over and work on my 35 year old Dual, which seems to have given up the ghost.

[boneygrey]

2. What's a turntable?

They have this snazzy new technology that has created a CD player. Check into it.;-)

[seemunkee]

3. What's the model?

I'm sure someone over at audio asylum could help
http://www.audioasylum.com/index.html

[IowaGuy]

4. pretty easy usually

just lift the platter up, it will usually without a graet deal of coaxing come right off the rest of the turntable - you'll see a small pulley attached to the armature of the motor...loop belt around this, then loop around large ring on underside of platter, reinsert on spindle...your all done.

[jilln]

7. D'Oh! Thanks Iowa Guy and Trajan...

I was trying to attach it to the BASE of the turntable, not the underside of the platter... working now. THANKS!

j

[Aristus]

5. Carefully.

Those things are a bloody hassle. Good luck.

[Trajan]

6. Usually ....

You need to remove the platter itself .... usually by lifting it directly from the changer body .. grasping the sides of the platter and lifting CAREFULLY .....

Usually, when the platter is off, you can see on the bottom of the platter an extra circle an inch or so from the edge, where the belt will be placed .... put the belt under the platter first, then hold it over the motor spindle to catch the spindle in the belt too ..... then move the platter to center and carefully drop it back down .....

Check out this link : http://repairfaq.ece.drexel.edu/sam/audiofaq.htm , ... which is part of this website : http://repairfaq.ece.drexel.edu/sam/index.html ....

Good luck ...

[gizmo1979]

8. You still have a turntable?

That's sad so so very sad.To fix grasp turntable with both hands lift above head throw to floor violently now stomp with both feet!:nuke:

[DancingBear]

9. For all you young and unaware folks

who think that an mp3 is actually music...

A turntable, properly set up, with high grade clean vinyl sitting on it and a quality phono cartidge sitting in the tonearm, will sonically kick the ass of ANYTHING out there. Period.

Here's a hint - music is analog in nature, turntables and vinyl reproduce an analog signal. CD players are digital, and do not.

Get it??????