DUAL ve dual 1219 1229 diy service guide free download

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Dual 1219, 1229 Service for Amateurs I'm a retiree who is always looking for a new and challenging hobby. I am an amateur hobbyist, not a working turntable repairman. To that extent use this guide at your own risk. I have been a hi fi addict since the late 60's. Just before Christmas 2008 I got the bug to get my old hi fi equipment out, a 1974 Marantz 2270 and a Garrard Zero-100C I bought new, still have all the boxes and paperwork for. After a little work on the receiver and a proper service of the Garrard this equipment still makes some beautiful music. I also upgraded my speakers, replacing some cheapie interim Kenwoods that replaced my Pioneer CSR500's which sadly were destroyed. The new speakers are some early 90's Klipsch Quartets in oak oil that look beautiful and sound terrific. While I was waiting for the Garrard to be serviced I got interested in Dual 12-series tables. My brother always had duals and he swore by them, his last table was a 1229Q. I looked on E-Bay and I wound up buying a US version of the 1219, a 1229 and a couple of junk for Europe metric 1219's mostly because one of them had a choice Dual base with the fold down front and also because some parts are interchangeable. I have 1 of the Euro tables, the for US 1219 and the 1229 up and running and they are amazing to listen to. The other Euro table was missing parts and the gimbal bearings were destroyed so it is parts only. Above are pictures of the Dual 1229 I recently purchased on E-Bay for the princely sum of $69 + shipping. It had a Shure V15 Type III cartridge and no base cabinet. The base cabinet was another $9.99 on E-Bay + shipping. It was quite tired when I got it probably never having been serviced since new. The start/stop switch was loose and the speed control lever was stuck. Caution: Never force a stuck speed control. If it won't move easily it must be cleaned and lubricated. The plastic speed control cam will shatter if you force the control lever. The table was dusty and dirty and had a tweaked transport screw in one corner. I did a quick cleanup of the chassis with a paint brush, replaced the transport screw from a donor table, released the stuck start switch and tightened the set screw on the bottom of the chassis and cleaned up the speed control (detailed description later) just to get the table to spin up and allow me to finish checking it out. The table actually ran in single play 33rpm on the 12 inch record setting only. The cueing lever also seemed to work well. While the other speeds worked the tone arm would not move to 10 inch or 7 inch positions in single play mode. Additionally after a few minutes of running the drive motor became noticeably noisy. I then inserted the multi-play stacker spindle and very carefully moved the mode lever to the multi-play position. Caution: Never force a stuck single-multi play mode control. If it won't move with very light effort and you force the lever you will break the plastic ears off the bottom of the gi