Maybe some of you in the Houston area would be interested in this

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Would be fun to restore! Notice the AA cell attached to the tonearm. Probably ruined many a record!

Good point about EV design obviating the need for a transmission! Here's a Wikipedia article about the transmission in my Jetta, there's a list of "Applications" of cars that use it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisin%E2%80%93Toyota_8-speed_automatic_transmission By the time my Dad starte...

Fascinating history, had no idea there were so many variants, all just for Buick! Nowadays, multiple car companies use the same transmissions, sourced from one Asian manufacturer. After a little research, I was surprised to find that the 8-speed automatic in our new VW Jetta has also been used in do...

What I mean by "required" is that the registration process will not advance if that field is left blank. I experience this all the time when registering for stuff, not sure if the forum software has that option for that field. Of course, someone could just put gibberish in there....

So I guess there's no way to make the location field to be "required" in the forum software?

Thanks for all your work on managing the forum!

You could try dry transfer letters, Woodland Scenic makes them for model railroad guys, I plan on using some for a control panel. They have at least two different font styles in various sizes, a sans serif type, and an older style. Here's one example on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Woodland-Scenics...

Well, I've finished up the electronics, control panel and changer work on the Zenith X940 console, and since the weather is still too hot for doing cabinet work in the garage on it or this SK29, I've turned my attention to the SK29 's control panel. In the first page of this topic, I showed how I me...

Thanks for the compliments, guys! I don't have the patience to do videos, but if there's interest, I would be happy to write up a more detailed description of that somewhat lengthy process in another thread.

Finally finished reworking the front panel. Check out how it looked when I got it in the photo a few posts above. The foil with cutout, back lit letters is completely missing from the topmost portion, damaged/missing on middle and lower portions. Here's what it's supposed to look like: 1000003319.jp...

You are welcome, Bill. I couldn't find either of the above specific solutions in the literature or my Google searches, so I thought it was important to document for posterity! This trip link is just a piece of aluminum, easy to bend, so it seems like you should be able to correct most deformity issu...

Well, plays records great, but I realized it was not shutting off after the last record , it "almost" would, the tonearm would return and set down, the control knob would only partially turn, but would not completely turn off. After observing things in action, manually running through the ...

FM stereo and amp still working, after many hours of play! New stylus and idler arrived yesterday, got those installed, and everything sounds great! But the changer has an end-of-play issue, stylus jumps a groove near the end of the record, like the trip link is binding, even at 3.8 grams tracking. ...

What's the tracking pressure?

Well, the stereo light is working just fine this afternoon, so I'll move on to other issues for now, but I'm pessimistic that it's fixed, because I really didn't do anything! Maybe dirty transistor socket/leads that I cleaned a second time....

Thanks, Bill!

Well, turns out this is a Z940, for what it's worth. I think the models for the 940 started with X, then Y, then Z. This stereo mpx circuit is driving me crazy! Here's a portion of the schematic: CBCPaR02.jpeg TR13 is supposed to have the 19Kz pilot at about 35V P-P on it's collector, it was zero, b...

Anybody been successful in clearing the yellow in these plastic knobs? I've tried soaking in oxiclean, but no luck. 1000003295.jpeg In other news, I've been working on getting the FM stereo to work, good news is that the FM is really sensitive, back to back stations across the dial with only a short...

Finished recapping the chassis this afternoon. Looks like the power supply cap cans had been replaced sometime ago, and one separate 1000uf/50v was replaced with 1500uf/75v connected with lamp cord (the blue one on the left). PXL_20260806_203101790.jpg I didn't trust any of those, so I replaced them...

Chris, I agree completely! Unless I get lucky and find a parted-out panel, I'll work out something else that looks OK. When I began disassembling the changer, I found that the little flipper doohickey (the older service manual for the 1200 series that I have does not actually show that part) was ben...