Looking at the Direct Drive Motor of a Technics SL1200MK2 Vinyl Turntable

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Right, Technics SL1200MK2. That is a butter rug courtesy of Mr. Kubert himself. He sent me that many years ago, thank you very much sir. So, let's have a look at a direct drive motor. So, I highly recommend you don't do this. If you are going to do this then, well actually just don't bother because you're watching this video so there's no need. Right, I've already taken the plastic covering away but I'm now going to put my fingers in there and remove the platter. Now what we can see here is the spindle so if I just get a bit closer, what we've got is we have got the spindle and then we've got electromagnets around the outside. Now, the direct motor is two parts. There's one part which is the... underside of the platter itself, the second part is positioned directly in

The center of the turntable around the spindle. Now that's free-moving now again you can pull this entire piece apart there are three screws you want to do those, pull that out and then you can get to the spindle itself. You can get oil from the bottom of the spindle. For the center spindle and if you are going to use oil make sure you get the correct oil, don't just choose anything. There is specific oil that you can use just for the bearings inside there.

You may find over time that the platter itself may start to sort of wobble a little bit too much now that could be because the three screws here are loose so check again just make sure you know what you're doing. Now because these are old-school they're very sort of basic that there's, when I say there's very little electronics there's very few sort of microchips. Most modern day kit now is a few microchips, a circuit board and that's about it. There's a lot going on here. Transformer there, I'm not going to go anywhere near that because it's still plugged in but basically what happens is with the direct drive motor the power is put into this part here. So you can see that the power is put into this part of the motor and then it acts exactly like the sort

Of motor you would expect to find let's say on a fan. The only difference is the turntable itself, the platter, is half of the motor so if I place that back on there just going to make sure it's dead center down there turn it on. There you go very clever, very ingenious. Quote me here if I'm right or wrong, I think I'm right but the only reason Technics were the only company to produce the direct drive turntable or direct drive motor for quite a few years because they have the patents on it and then I think the patent finished and then other companies were allowed to make a direct drive motor but not exactly like the Technics SL 1200 mk2. So there you go so this video really is I suppose a demonstration in

Showing you inside the turntable instead of you pulling it apart and wondering why you did it trying to put it back together again and realize you can't practice and enjoy thank you.

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