AfterĪfter some more sanding, a couple of coats of paint and removing the masking tape we have this. Here we see the damaged area after sanding down with wet & dry paper. This paint gives great coverage, sticks to anything, and provides a very pleasing satin black finish with just a couple of coats. I used it previously on my dual 505 plinth project. Warhammer Chaos Black aerosol paint is again my weapon of choice. Is there a knack to this that I haven’t got? I decided to cut my losses and resort to careful application of masking tape to protect it. I had hoped it could clip off, but it seems it is glued together pretty tight. Zero 100 plinth prepared for paintingĮfforts to remove the aluminium surround were fruitless. I failed to cleanly remove this, leaving glue residue and scratched paint. An anti static brush had been crudely glued to the top left hand corner. This will also give the paint plenty of time to dry before re-uniting the deck and plinth. The deck needs to come out of the plinth for repair anyway, so cosmetic and mechanical repairs can commence concurrently. My first impressions of this turntable were excellent, so no this occasion I am confident confident the mechanics will be repairable. Sometimes mechanical repair isn’t possible, so why waste time on cosmetics. This is mainly so that I don’t damage a nicely repaired case during other repairs. I normally delay such work until I have the mechanics sorted. This time I’m going to start with cosmetic issues. However it was described as “faulty”, which indeed it is. Garrard turntables are a great option for the discerning consumer with a bit of money to throw around and a preference for vintage turntables.This recently purchased classic 1970’s British turntable was, for the most part, in excellent condition. Loricraft have even developed the Garrard 501, which is based on the earlier Garrard turntables but with their perceived flaws removed. They refurbish old 301s and 401s for the discerning customers of today. The two premier companies are Loricraft, who are based in England, and Shindo, who are based in Japan. Garrard turntables are cult icons that are still being refurbished today. The Garrard 401 was produced in 1965 to replace the 401 (it never quite achieved this feat, according to the opinions of some). After production ceased during World War II, the Garrard 301 was invented in 1954 and hailed as a triumph of engineering. Sales picked up as technology did during the 1930s, with the invention of amplifiers helping things move along at a nice pace. In the late 1920s, Garrard began producing electric motors and by 1930, their very first complete gramaphone. Garrard initially started manufactured spring wound motors for a growing gramophone industry, which were great successes due to their comparative silence to other options of the era. Following the war, the Garrard Engineering and Manufacturing Company was set up with view to producing consumer products in a post-war era. They were a company that were requested to manufacture range finders for the First World War. Garrard and Company was the first iteration of the company that would go on to manufacture Garrard turntables.
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The 301 and 401 are not dissimilar to 1200 series Dual turntables in that they are sturdy, well built idler drive turntables. Other Garrard turntables are worthwhile if found in good working order, but unless you have experience restoring vintage turntables, the cost of a restoration will outweigh the benefits a good Garrard can provide. These are the Garrard 301 and Garrard 401. There’s no point ending up with a mediocre table when you could have spent a hundred dollars more and got a nice entry level audiophile turntable.Ī couple of Garrard turntables have been elevated to cult status. While I hesitate to call them junk, there are many Garrard turntables that are not worth the pain of restoring them. Garrard turntables at the time were not as well regarded as say, the Linn LP12s or the Pink Triangles, but their best turntables were regarded as excellent affordable options. They were a relatively unexciting company, producing decent turntables for the masses for many years. Garrard turntables are a UK based manufacturer.
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