[Jukebox-list] AMI 200-select tonarm pivot

[Carmack]

Graeme,

Outstanding!  I'll give Victory a call and get one right away.  Thank 
you for the pointers! 

Cheers!
Mike

Graeme Harvey wrote:
> G'day,
> If you have an AMI Continental Mech there is a brass bush about 1 inch 
> long with a small ball bearing inside of it.   This often gets lost 
> when the tonearm is lifted or removed from that "vertical tube" you 
> mention.
> If you have the Continental 2 Manuel look in the parts section part 
> F-8935 AMI referred to it as "bearing assembly"     Victory Glass have 
> them so does Oliver Stamann in Germany.
> Hope this helps.
> Graeme Harvey
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carmack" <jmc at sparksandarcs.net>
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> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 11:02 AM
> Subject: [Jukebox-list] AMI 200-select tonarm pivot
>
>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I've acquired an AMI 200-select mechanism that I'm building a 
>> "hideaway" cabinet to place in, supposedly out of a Continental II 
>> (stereo cartridge is mounted).  I've been able to rig it up to play 
>> on the bench, except for one thing.  It seems the tonearm has too 
>> much lateral friction in both directions causing skips.  The manual 
>> shows nothing as far as an exploded view of that assembly, and I'm 
>> stumped as to what it's supposed to look like.  It has that vertical 
>> "tube" that the tonearm rides on which has already been lubed with 
>> lithium grease, but there's nothing on top of it. That doesn't seem 
>> right to me.  Am I missing a piece that should be there? Does it have 
>> a pivot pin? Anybody got a scan of what it should really look like?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>>
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