15-11-2016, 09:48 AM
DEspite several further attempts to solve this problem, I still cannot get the auto eject mechanism to work. Occasionally the disc will be ejected, but 99% of the time the motor is switched off at the end of the record, but the turntable need up to about a quarter turn more to trip the eject mechanism. This, to me, points to too much friction somewhere, but I don't know where. The only parts I haven't dismantled, cleaned & relubed are the tow idler wheel (jockey pulley) assemblies, which I left alone as records play at the correct speed, although the TT does stop rather abruptly at the end. This I put down to the fact that two idlers are used, rather than the one used in domestic record players, and, unlike in a conventional player, these, at least in the example on which I'm working, aren't retracted away from the TT's inner rim at the end of playing, but remain in contact with it, acting as a brake to stop the TT when the motor is switched off.
