garrard zero 100

[986s]

How do you remove the headset from the arm. Is there some trick to removing that main pivot bearing? Wiring issues.........

 

[eb2jim]

Are you meaning beyond sliding out the cart holder? You want to dis-assemble the tone arm?

Before you venture into that dark foreboding void, have you checked the tonearm wiring for connectivity via a multimeter, from the RCA jacks underneath to the clips that connect to the slider? I have had trouble with those contacts before, so I just offer that you determine that each of the 4 wires is conducting up to the headshell, or not. Anything is possible, but I hope you don't have to do that.

 

[986s]

I was talking tone arm, but I will check the RCA jacks.....Thanks

 

[audiojones]

I would suspect the headshell contact shoes as eb2jim mentioned even before I would suspect the RCA jacks/cables. ALL of those Garrard turntables with the slide in headshells suffered from oxidized or just plain dirty contacts and one channel dropping out or humming. Slide the headshell out and carefully clean the prongs in the arm receiver and on the slide in headshell assembly with scotch brite or similar scouring pad...make sure that they are shiny and bright. Be careful not to bend the conact shoes while cleaning, and before you slide the headshell back in make sure that the contact shoes are bent out enough to engage with the contacts in the arm receiver. Usually that does it, if not then look at your muting switch to assure that the contacts aren't stuck together (and of course the RCA cables, too). Disassembling that arm is a nightmare due to the pivoting headshell bearings and the super fine wires involved, so hopefully that's not necessary. Dirty headshell contacts on those models cause that problem about 90% of the time.