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Requesting guidance on Systemdek IIX restoration

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Nestorpants

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I recently was able to buy a Sytemdek IIX that appears to be an early model (steel bottom, teardrop armboard). When the power switch was clicked on nothing would happen. I researched a bit and thought it would be the capacitor but ultimately turned out to be the switch that was faulty. I've ordered a replacement switch that will be here in the next few days.
I was going to replace the resistor and caps in the power supply as well while I have it open but the issue I ran into is that instead of a resistor there's a 1 amp ceramic fuse. I'm thinking I should just leave it there and not try to fix what isn't broken. Thoughts?
I still ordered a 220 ohm 5 watt resistor just in case.

I found two 103k caps in my parts bin, will those work to replace the 01/400 phase/switch caps that are in there currently?
Also ordered a Nichicon 0.68uf 400v metallized polypropylene cap to replace the large chiclet that's currently installed.

Your help is much appreciated. Looking forward to getting this into service.
 

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Update:
New switch and capacitor have arrived. I haven't changed anything but the switch yet. Turntable sounds great with a Grado Signature cart and 8MZ stylus.

Every few times when I turn it on it will spin the wrong way. Turning it off and on again with remedy this. Many times when it does spin the correct way it will jitter as though it's going to spin the wrong way but then starts moving correctly. Will changing the 3 caps on the board fix this? And will these caps that I have be suitable replacements? Hoping a Systemdek guru can chime in and help me out.

I've also picked up the appropriate weight oil so I can do an, "oil change" on this thing. An additional question I have is what to use to clean the belt and sub platter as per the manual. Will rubbing alcohol work?
 

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Nestorpants said:
Update:
New switch and capacitor have arrived. I haven't changed anything but the switch yet. Turntable sounds great with a Grado Signature cart and 8MZ stylus.

Every few times when I turn it on it will spin the wrong way. Turning it off and on again with remedy this. Many times when it does spin the correct way it will jitter as though it's going to spin the wrong way but then starts moving correctly. Will changing the 3 caps on the board fix this? And will these caps that I have be suitable replacements? Hoping a Systemdek guru can chime in and help me out.

I've also picked up the appropriate weight oil so I can do an, "oil change" on this thing. An additional question I have is what to use to clean the belt and sub platter as per the manual. Will rubbing alcohol work?
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I'm currently working on a similar turntable. It had a very noisy motor but has gotten much better after opening the shell to clean out caked old lube and re-oil. It also sometimes starts in reverse so I will also change the caps if it's likely to help.

Any word on this?
 
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