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My daughter wants to spin vinyl in her room and was showing me pictures of the cheap suitcase turntables. I told her we should look for something a little better quality so I started looking for a good vintage deck. I picked up a vintage Dual 1019 and got to work. It was filthy, missing the cartridge sled and cartridge, and none of the functions worked. I did a degrease and relube of all the changer mechanism componets, cleaned all electrical contacts, lubed the motor, installed a new sled and cartidge, fully cleaned top to bottom and we are now good to go. Sounds great and she's happy!

Big job but sounds like you got it done. What are you running it into?

For testing I ran it into a Sansui 5500 receiver and fed a pair of Boston Acoustics A70's. Sounded great. In her room we will connect to her Onkyo TX-8511 with a pair of Boston A40 bookshelves. Her room is being rearranged so we haven't had a chance to play it in there yet.

It's been a fun project and I'm encouraged that she wants to listen to records.