[sanlanman]

Recently I bought a JVC JL-A20 belt drive turntable at a yard sale. I lubed the motor and put on a belt and it seems to work. But I have not mounted a cart and actually played LPs. (yet).
When I got it home I noticed that one foot is missing. It is a Top hat shaped rubber foot with a coiled spring inside of it. It is about 1-5/8" wide at the lower brim and about 1-1/8" wide on the upper barrel section and about 7/8" tall. It has a hard leather or felt washer glues to the bottom of it.
Any one got a source for old turntable parts that might have one for sale?

[TheChairGuy]

You wanna' replace those feet with brass toes or something else, anyhow.

Don't forget to fill the entire insides of the JL-A20 with plasticlay (modelling clay)

That was my first table some 30 years ago....I remember it playing superbly with an ADC cartridge once it was filled and the stock feet were bypassed.

I always liked the simple looks of the metallic-like grey finish and silver S arm.  It just 'looked right' to my aesthetic sensibilities

John

[sanlanman]

John, I understand your preaching on the plasticlay, but the brass toes with hard points seems counter intuitive. You want to couple a speaker to the floor or stand with hard points but you want to decouple the turntable from what its resting on, right? besides I don't want to put major money in a backup turntable. Since I can not locate an OEM JVC foot,can any one suggest a reasonably  priced set of 4 isolation feet from another manufacturer or generic that I can mount to this table? I have seen some exotic stuff at places like music direct, but they are pricey, and usually come in sets of 3, not 4.

PS, the foot mounting recesses in the underside of the table is 5/8" deep and 1-1/2" wide.

[TheChairGuy]

Brass toes straight down into a thick maple block really works on the JVC's It's more intuitive this way

I think most of them take an M6 metric thread...you can find brass toes and other feet with this thread in several places (including Audiogon when I looked last a year ago). Pretty cheap, too...the maple cutting board is another $100 and highly recommended.

The cheaper birch cutting boards at IKEA may work, too (haven't tried it yet, tho)

Filling the hollow innards with modeling clay is not to be overlooked...it's the best and most cost effective tweek you can do to improve any plastic-bodied table from the 70's and 80's.

John

[sanlanman]

John, I guess I am being hard headed about the feet. An ebay seller named walmart baby has sold me 3 feet off of a junker JL-A20, and I won her bid to sell the JVC headshell with Ortofon 305 cart in 1/2" adapter. I've got the clay (plastiline) to go into the turn table. I plan to spray the metal bottom cover with some rust proofer/sound deadener from the auto parts store, being careful not to block the vent slots. I have new better grade RCA ends to go on the phono cable. I thought about replacing the whole cable but I was afraid to desolder the cable from the posts because the fine wires from the tonearm land there and I was afraid I would muck things up. Of course I have a new belt. I bought nylon nuts, bolts and washers to reinstall the feet with.

I am not going to buy a maple board at this time, nor any pointed brass toes. That may come later. This turntable will likely end up being my "play after cleaning" check out turntable, in my older system, where my record cleaning setup is.

[TheChairGuy]

All good..whatever makes you happy, sanlanman 

My JL-A20 back in 1978 or so benefitted mightily from the clay...didn't have brass feet/toes or maple block and sounded pretty dang good with an ADC cartridge as I remember it

John