Worth the rebuild?

[hermitcrab]

this is out of that little GE I found on the road... full of mice "deleted", nest material and rust ... it reeks to high heaven. I think it will need a new changer base at a minimum ...

[Hi-Fi-Mogul]

The advantage of an all metal V-M.

You can clean and dis-infect and, then dis-assemble.
for more cleaning.

Proper oiling and cleaning of the rust, and it
will work again.

At a minimum lots of good parts there.

What does the topside of the base look like ?

[TC Chris]

Nothing structural there, just surface rust, and on the bottom anyway so it can't be seen. A little wire-brushing and some paint if you're offended by the view, and she's good to go after you do the usual clean & lube.

Chris Campbell

[electra225]

Those are good changers and are hard to kill. Your skills, aided and abetted by the talent on the forum if you need help, should get it going again.

[hermitcrab]

I stripped down a changer to just the base years ago and it never worked correctly afterwards , the tone arm was really jacked up , never cycled right .. (before phone cameras ) I guess I could take a million pictures during disassembly but I would lose track of what picture is the right one for the particular moment... the topside looks good, at most I would pull the motor and tonearm off and dunk it in a vat of vapo-rust for a week , but of course it would destroy the factory paint job... the plinth itself fell apart taking the changer out , would anyone have a plinth cutout pattern for a VM changer?... I have 3 or 4 VM changers lying around , I could just replace the whole thing and call it a day...

[electra225]

I'm not much on changer repair myself, so I can sure feel your pain. What cartridge does that changer have? If it is a C-100 and the cartridge is good, I'd be interested in making a deal for the tone arm and cartridge. I have a GE stereo with a funky tone arm. I could swap it to the "Custom" tone arms I like so well, which that changer has.