Technics SL 5 Part 3 - Repairing some plastic mounts

An update to the SL-5. It played well...mostly. Just had some issues with starting and ending of records. Some plastics had cracked, notably the plastic that keeps the tone arm in place and where it's supposed to be. This video talks about the repair and what I had to do.

Unfortunately, although the repair is 'good' in that the bonding worked well, the alignment is still a little off - I had no reference to work off, so it is a little out. I'll have to undo today's work and realign it. Sigh.

That should be doable without destroying everything, but I will leave it for a few days before I try again.

Err, and yes, there is no part 2. Well, there is, but it's long, boring (no, really) and in places I ran out of camera. So stitching it together into a coherent vid has been a challenge. If you really want it, or I get bored enough, I'll sort it out.

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Hmm jiggerly bits gone loose :-D
Epoxy is good stuff but it doesn't seem to bond to some plastics, it's like the plastic has oil in the surface.
Hot glue is good for laptop hinges, the plastic mounts always brake off.
And super glue is not as super as it was, the early super glue was fantastic.
Hopefully that will be the end of that problem for good :-D