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I'm going to try that.... Great idea! I will start with the plastic hanger. Maybe a hot needle to make the holes... Or at least to start them.

Sencore PR57 coming your way! I also have 4 large file boxes of prints. Need to go through them once I can get to them. I hope to have much more. How about old radio prints, not really hi-fi but... Maybe 8 track stuff? Hope to get to this stuff in the next few weeks.

Some I'm sure will disagree but for a budget TT, able to find under $150 bucks or sometimes for $100, I think these are a bargain. Low rumble, low noise, small enough to fit almost anywhere. With a good cartridge mine sounds pretty good. Using either a Technics P28E or the AT8008. Grado still...

A close-up shot pre assembly of the mod. If I can still find a bent or broken arm, I could make this one serviceable again as the hole is tiny.

The drawback to this is that I can't easily change cartridges by swapping the arm. I am in the process of locating another wand, if I have 2 or more it would be worth it to undo the mod and put the ADC on one arm and the AT8008 on the other. I did change the belts, lube the bearing, change the...

Well... Work will continue. In the meantime I did get the unit working again. I had to work some mod magic until I was able to get a wand. I have the wand and need to undo the mods. I might not though as it sounds great this way... I drilled a small hole in the arm. Ran silver wire from the head...

Status update... Thanks for the info on the arm for sale. I have just been working so much that I didn't get back to it yet. I will soon though, summer usually slows down a bit.

Prefer the QSC I have used both. I like the QSC. I also own a bunch of the earlier PLX2402 amps. I have had them bridged to mono running a pair of EAW subs at 4 ohms, peaking just below the red for hours on end with no issues. What I really don't like are the GX amps. Don't bother. We used them...

1st roadblock A little history. I bought this TT about 7 or 8 years ago, listened to it for about a month, boxed it up and moved. It just came out of the box a few weeks ago. Just as dshoaf pointed out, the plug separated from the tonearm. The reason for that is that it was glued into the male...

NICE! It looks like we bought our cables from the same source. So far I have the service manual, the wire, and all 3 belts. On order I have the electrolytic caps, the pot, lamps, and a really great item that I heard about here that I believe LesE designed from shapeways for alignment.

It is stuck. I haven't figured out why yet. I'm shooting to re-wire the whole thing, arm to RCA. The arm slipped right out without hardly any resistance.

The board Here is a shot. I figured since I was in here already I would replace the two electrolytic caps on this board as well as the trimmer resistor. I want to be proactive in eliminating possible future issues. Increasing the longevity is one of my primary goals as well as getting rid of...

Airpot Here is a shot of the airpot that was pointed out to my by rread13 in another thread. The arm drops without damping. This is the reason. I am looking for a nice smooth slow decent. rread13 said he was able to repair it because these things are like gold. I will give that a shot before...

Top off Two screws visible with the platter off are the only ones that hold the entire top on. It took a little wiggling to get the top off. Now I can see one of the belts that drive the tonearm. It's in good shape, but I am replacing it anyway. There are foam pieces under the top attached to...

Nice! Found some goodies inside! Home depot in my area doesn't carry hardware this small. I can now mount a different cartridge that I have on hand. I didn't have any hardware and it's been a while since I dabbled in vinyl. I forgot how much I've missed it.

Tonearm I want to re-wire it. We shall see how THAT goes. 1 nut? holds it on.

Platter off 1 clip holds platter in place. The belt was a little sticky. It still worked but.....

I wanted to document my first ST series rebuild. I have rebuilt others but this is the first Rabco. This is my first thread. I like the group and want to contribute. Hope some of this info helps someone else. Also if anyone has any info on this TT, I would be grateful.

Thank you for that. The arm damping doesn't work. I will keep an eye out for the airpot. The turntable plays now but the arm drops and it has a slight buzz. Not too much but more than I can live with. There is a Stanton 500 V3 on it now. I really don't care for the way the Stanton sounds plus...

St-8 I ordered one in black. I'm grateful, thank you. Getting ready to do a total rebuild on the ST-8. I have rebuilt many turntables, reel to reels, beta decks etc but this will be my first H/K ST series. I bought some tonearm wire on Amazon here...

I'm just about ready to rebuild a Harmon Kardon ST-8. I'm going to document the rebuild with PLENTY of pictures. The H/K Rabco ST-8 has an extensive procedure for setup in the service manual, quite a bit more than usual. I'm only waiting on the tonearm wires and the setup jig to be delivered...