20 Most Recent Technics SL-BD22 Turntable - Page 5 Questions & Answers

You will have to lift off the cloth on the platter section to expose two rather large holes in the plattr. Insert your thumb and forefinger, and pull up.

There are 2 complete turntables up for auction on Ebay. One is at 4.99, and the other is at 9.99. Just do a search.

PacParts shows "sub" in stock at $3.48 cost.

Since I can't be there for you I would suggest a nice small TV repair shop can do the soldering job for you. It takes a steady hand, small tools, and soldering talent.

If it's a mechanical screech you should be able to recreate it by rotating the platter by hand clockwise. Are you saying that did not reveal anything? I'd suspect a foreign object is involved.

I can't help you with where you can get one locally but I have a tip on FixYa which tells you where to get the belt and how to install it. It is located at http://www.fixya.com/support/r4123810-change_belt_most_turntables Let me know if you need anymore help.

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The most obvious cause is a dead cartridge. The other cause is that the turntable is fine, but your amp is not. The reason being that the turntable input on your amp has a pre-amp just for the deck. So you might hear the tape/cd fine, but not the deck. If it is the amp, that's faulty, you can trace the wires from the socket to the PC board. Some amps have this pre-amp on a seperate PC board. You might find a single IC doing the work, my bet is that has gone.

Define what isn't working. Is it dead (no motor, lights, anything)?

Or is there just no sound. The output of the cartridge is independent of any power. A basic test to see if it's alive is to lift the tonearm, select the Phono on your electronics, TURN THE VOLUME WAY DOWN TO JUST A SKOOTCH OFF OF SILENCE, place the tonearm somewhere over the platter and lightly brush the stylus (BACK TO FRONT) with your finger tip. You'll hear objectionable noise from both channels if the conenctions are all intact.

Chances are the belt is slipping. Therefore ridding up and down, causing the speed problems.

Yes you need a pre amp

It would also be the same if you connected it to a computer to record an LP to CD. Mine is a little different and has one already built in that I can switch in and out of line.

Try spend a little more if you can as many pre amps can introduce noise.

You may also want to check that the turntable is properly grounded to prevent noise too

your belt has most likely stretched and needs a new one? go to this site?

http://www.needledoctor.com/Online-Store/Turntable

go to this site http://www.needledoctor.com/Online-Store/Turntablete? they may stock it?

Nope, very simple...

1) Remove the platter - just lift up
2) Underneath the platter, you'll see a small lip section
3) Wrap the belt around this lip
4) Put platter back on turntable
5) Rotate platter until you see the motor shaft through the holes on the platter - a brass round looking piece
6) Pinch the belt around the motor shaft.
7) That's it.

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Your best option would be EBAY but double check with sellers as to the quality etc

I am not particularly familiar with this model but if you have to have a disk on the turntable in order for it to run (a safety for stylus protection perhaps) why not just put on a disk and see? This feature would be a fairly complex one (photosensor perhaps) and I would not expect to see it on an inexpensive piece. Likely as not this has to do with a switch inside probably activated by a cam wheel (used in the raising of the arm at the end and returning the arm to rest) that is not set right. This cam or some link to it may have a problem which need to be addressed. All this I grant is speculation which would become clear if I saw the unit but unfortunately that is not an option. As to whether its a piece of junk, I wouldn't buy it unless I thought I could make it work. Paying any real amount of money to another to fix it makes little sense to me.

Terry, Remove the rubber mat from top of platter. This will expose two slots in the aluminum platter. Lift aluminum platter straight up and off. On the underneath side of platter is a surface that the belt will fit on, place the belt there(approximately half the diameter of the platter) With the belt mounted on platter, reinstall platter to turntable. Slowly rotate platter until you can see the drive motor pulley, stop. Carefully reach down and pull belt over drive motor pulley (make sure not to twist belt) Rotate platter to ensure smooth operation and belt tracking. VOLA! Reinstall rubber mat and vynil on!!

motors get burned out spots after many hours of playing eventually in time. it just so happens that when the motor stops, sometimes it stops in that dead spot, or may have more than one deadspot, which will require replacing the motor or better yet replace the whole turntable since everything will be new!