16-06-2015, 08:36 AM
At last I have the AG 1014 working as it should (fingers crossed it stays that way!. The problems with the autochanger not always cycling properly, including sometimes dropping two records at once or switching off after dropping the last one were, in part at least, as far as I can tell, due to sluggish working of the autochanger spindle, which has improved after applying a few drops of WD40 to it, although, IMHO, it still seems stiff - i.e. to remove records the record keeper part has to be pulled back with one hand whilst lifting the discs off with the other. I'm not familiar with these Philips decks, but that doesn't seem right to me, but (a) I'm more used to BSR & Garrard 'changers with their freely moving 'record keepers', and (b) this deck is over 50 years old. Perhaps regular use will 'free up' the operation.
