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Wayner, seeing as you have to exact same turntable and cartridge I was wondering if you could tell me what you have the counter weight set at, and what you have the dial set at. I don't have the instruction booklet for mine. Also, do have any idea how to fix the auto return?Thanks in advance for your help.
these turntables suck big-time, imho. one of the happiest days of my life up to that point, was when i literally threw my dual 1229 turntable into a dumpster. it never really worked right, starting less than a year after i bought it; and, since the $50 belt drive p.o.s. plastic pioneer that replaced it was so much better, in all regards - pitch definition, detail, you name it - tossing the 1229 into the dumpster was a truly pleasurable act. ymmv,doug s.
Quote from: doug s. on 6 Feb 2009, 08:57 pmthese turntables suck big-time, imho. one of the happiest days of my life up to that point, was when i literally threw my dual 1229 turntable into a dumpster. it never really worked right, starting less than a year after i bought it; and, since the $50 belt drive p.o.s. plastic pioneer that replaced it was so much better, in all regards - pitch definition, detail, you name it - tossing the 1229 into the dumpster was a truly pleasurable act. ymmv,doug s.tisk, tisk, tisk....I have a 1229 that works great. It needed some long overdue maintenance when I got it--and I may have been lucky that some problems parts had not been mistreated before I got it--but it works terrifically. I traded away a pretty good (non-plastic) Pioneer after I refurbed the Dual.
Yes, that's right. Now I have seemed to have acquired another table. This one is very interesting! It's a table made by United Audio (Deutches United Audio, Limited), or DUAL (I believe was the abbreviations), and the model is the 1215.This is a table that features the very interesting rim drive! If you remove the turntable, you will discover the usual motor drive, but it doesn't have pulleys. It insted, has a "friend" that is a large rubber rim drive coupler. The motor drive contacts the rim drive, which supplies motion to the inner rim of the platter.The underside is a mechanical engineers heaven with a maze of linkages and moving mechanisms. I love this kind of shit! Well, it was in a garage attic for a time and needs a little TLC on contacts and things like that. But with no work at all, we have the platter spinning at a nice even speed. The first record played in stereo, but lost one channel soon after, just due to corrosion of contacts. The table is probably at least 35 years old...give it a break. Anyway, nice walnut base, topside is almost perfect. A fun restoration project to get me thru the rest of the winter!Wayner
Quote from: doug s. on 6 Feb 2009, 08:57 pmthese turntables suck big-time, imho. one of the happiest days of my life up to that point, was when i literally threw my dual 1229 turntable into a dumpster. it never really worked right, starting less than a year after i bought it; and, since the $50 belt drive p.o.s. plastic pioneer that replaced it was so much better, in all regards - pitch definition, detail, you name it - tossing the 1229 into the dumpster was a truly pleasurable act. ymmv,doug s.Doug! C'mon man! You're blocking....let it out....say what's really on your mind.
