Classic Hifi Care

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 ...

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 ?

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

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.

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...

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.