technics 1200

heres the cables and cord i'll be using

sonseelye wrote:



every dot on this thing was black as sh1t..took sand paper to get them silver

dang, that paint's slick. at first I thought the jar was on top of the case

nice work with the dots, I decided to clean mine today and it made a big difference

^^^thanks man..im liking the color a lot...

well got it all cleared up and put the electronics back in it,oiled the bearing and spindle,rewired the power cord and rca's..

now im just waiting oh so patiently for my other parts..about 25 of them..

today doing all the lights in blue...pop up,strobe,33,45rpm's,slider..

also did the ground wire elimination mod and today i will be doing the center pitch click mod..

and heres some project pics..

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oh thats' great!
good job!

Nice work bro. When will your new parts come in?

thanks thx..

and dirtyrum,,hopefully they will be in sometime this week..i had to order from 4 different sites..so we'll see.

how much do you think you are gonna sell it for when it is complete?

^^ i bought this because i been using a "teac" turntable to sample from..like a 15 dollar joint even..lol...so i'll be keeping this but im thinking of buying one to fix and sell..just not sure of a price yet..

guess it depends on how much it costs and how much it needs..

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ok on the table..
if anybody has any input,that would be great....
i have been to every frigin electronics store in my area and bought every blue led i could find,,i even had some from japan laying around...
i had the 5mm,3mm,
diferent volts,sizes,power..everything....none worked..NONE

and just so u dont think i dont know what im doing....
yes ive tried both ways,my soldering skills are decent and all i can even get the yellow and the green and red to work fine??????????????????????

i need someone who has done this to charm in........it would be appreciated..
as a matter of fact i got so frigin mad i went straight to ebay and bought the dual deck kit..i actually spent less on the kit than i did led's around here..
so back to square one..

on a good note i did the pitch control click mod,,very easy and i like it a lot more...

well more to come later..still waiting on parts

my stand alone cd burner is made by "teac" lol


cant wait to see this tt when it is done man

sonseelye wrote:on a good note i did the pitch control click mod,,very easy and i like it a lot more...

i got a friend that do some repairs and mods on the technics turntables, maybe he knows what kind of led you need
you want to replace the pop-up light bulb with a led, right?

im replacing all the lights with blue led's..but i have some on the way now so im done spending money on l.e.d's for now...thanks though..

Great thread, sonseelye! Thanks for posting the pics, it's great to see the guts of the 1200's. I have had mine (which were used) for 16 years now, and have never needed any maintanence, but it is cool to watch the restoration of one in case I ever come across another one!

BOOKMARKED. NICE JOB i need to replcae the pcboard for the RCA and tone arm i got his table for free but it was soildered with epoxy.

nice, I took apart my Gemini today, and thgat 1200 has ALOT less parts! I was really syrprised ho many parts mine had, and it weighs almost 20 lbs, all plastic! I just cleaned the shit out of it, and re-soldered some wires, but everything looks intact, waiting on a power cord. I might still send it to you for a new tonearm, but once I realized how cheeply made this thing was(plastic galore, 20 lbs of it!)I think I might hunt down an old run down 1200, and send that to you instead. Yo Sonse, pm me, I need to know what you charge for tact switch/pot replacements on a 2000 xl.

Tapuno wrote:nice, I took apart my Gemini today, and thgat 1200 has ALOT less parts! I was really syrprised ho many parts mine had, and it weighs almost 20 lbs, all plastic! I just cleaned the **** out of it, and re-soldered some wires, but everything looks intact, waiting on a power cord. I might still send it to you for a new tonearm, but once I realized how cheeply made this thing was(plastic galore, 20 lbs of it!)I think I might hunt down an old run down 1200, and send that to you instead. Yo Sonse, pm me, I need to know what you charge for tact switch/pot replacements on a 2000 xl.

trust me you wont regret it it will be the best investment .

i'm gong on 30yrs almost with my 1200's never did anything to them,although i do neeed to replace the RCA's i run then bridged right now in mono.