Been after one of these for so long and I think I was looking in the wrong places. Although made in the Netherlands in 1957, later models were designed for 12 or 24 volt car battery use and a few were exported to the USA. When they appear for sale over there, traditionally the cost has been high. It's an all metal chassis & parts with a plastic cabinet. Underneath there is a slide door for the cable storage almost as though it was designed to be portable so you could take it around your mates house and plug into his radio 'gram' socket. Because for all it's high value there is no electronics inside apart from a 110-220 volt motor and a ceramic cartridge.
Getting the top off, held by spring clips, over pushing will beak them
Underneath
Removing the top is done as shown in the diagram, but take care not to break the clip, mine were already bust at the front so I used double sided stick tape to hold closed using a screwdriver through the disc hole to tighten the attraction of the glue. As with all 60-year-old turntables a little grease and oil is required in the right places. Don't over do the oil if it gets inside the turntable or on the rubber jockey wheel it will render them inactive. Where the deck over laps the edge wipe clean the inside edge where the wheel turns it. Over time rubber will stick and make it inefficient. Also clean the jockey rubber lightly with alcohol, don't over do it as this will make it smaller an alter the running speed.
Jockey wheel shown underneath
The swing arm styli cleaner brush alignment
Make sure a dab of oil is applied to all spindle circlip points. The record center adapter moves up and down as you insert vinyl, apply a dab of oil to your finger and apply it to it's post/spindle so it moves easily. Clean the fluff collected the cleaner brush over the years and vacuum excess dust from the inside of the unit. When the record finishes playing a automatic eject mechanism runs of the weight of the turntable after the motor voltage is switched off, make sure all bars move freely. If the turntable can't eject the record after all this cleaning then tighten the jockey wheel spring by moving aluminum fixing post outwards.
The tone arm is fixed like a clock dial, only the head shell moved to compensate for warps in the record and also the apply styli pressure, making the spring longer will reduce the tracking weight. In the car player version it's 10 grams to cope with road vibrations, but on the home unit can be 1/2 that value. Diagram above shows how to remove the audio cartridge/styli, the hinge pivot can be seen under the left thumb.
The deck here has been removed with 3 bolts from the base of the housing. 'A' shows the end mechanism pivot point 'B' shows the brush cleaner swing arm. In this photo I've removed the 'roll bar' that covers the turntable, turntable and under roll bar are covered with brown felt to protect the records from being scratched, make sure this area is also clean.
Show the record center spindle oil points, also audio mute switch is activated by the movement of this.
more grease and oil points
I was very impressed by the sound quality of the ceramic cartridge, it has a 470 k ohm resistor fitted in series to allow for the high impedance input of a valve amplifier. The motor gives very stable speed also, even though I ran it on 220 volt setting it runs fine.
If you need to remove the head shell an extra diagram has been included. These have been pulled from a German manual, can't find an English one anywhere, may explain why you never find them in the UK. Good luck with your repair and I'll add a 1959 magazine advert for the unit as a closing feature.Just off to get my packet of fags, Lol.
Been after one of these for so long and I think I was looking in the wrong places. Although made in the Netherlands in 1957, later models were designed for 12 or 24 volt car battery use and a few were exported to the USA. When they appear for sale over there, traditionally the cost has been high. It's an all metal chassis & parts with a plastic cabinet. Underneath there is a slide door for the cable storage almost as though it was designed to be portable so you could take it around your mates house and plug into his radio 'gram' socket. Because for all it's high value there is no electronics inside apart from a 110-220 volt motor and a ceramic cartridge.
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