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Thanks Terry. Hey, everybody knows that was a joke about checking runout with a mike, right? Well, it sounded funnier in my head. Yeah, I cleaned up everything, The capstan, inside the platen, the wheel ( I took the wheel off before the WD40 spray), it still runs a little slow and has that darn drag on every rotation of the record. Also the turntable used to immediately start spinning at correct RPM but I noticed now it takes a turn or two to get up to speed. There's a spring that holds the wheel against the capstan; could that spring be stretched? It still works but I don't know what kind of tension it should have.
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