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The "Epoxy Man" never stopped with my Luxman R-1050

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MyHeresyIsMe

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Many of your Lux folks may remember that I wrote about a Luxman R-1050 I bought that needed dial lamps. That's not unusual, but what was unusual was my discovery that the owner before me ---or the person who worked on it for him--- used epoxy to install the knobs. Now, why would he do that? The knobs are on split shafts. There's no reason for epoxy to 'weld' on a plastic knob to a three different pot/switch shafts. When I tried to remove the knobs, they wouldn't budge. I contacted the guy I bought it from and he answered my question about the knobs by saying, 'yeh, they are on tight and I couldn't get them off.' He didn't say they were epoxied on.

This saga continues. When I pulled one knob to no avail, I real pulled it HARD. Yes, I pulled the rotary switch's shaft straight through, detroying the two wafers for the Speaker Selector switch. The knob was still in one piece in my plyers, connected to the shaft. I installed another rotary switch. Then I found that two other switches had been epoxied. Why? I think he was nuts. Anyway, I then had to replace two other rotary switches (one was that monster Function switch of "AM/FM/Ph1/Ph2/Aux"....five wafers). While I was in there I saw that this same person had epoxied the dial glass onto the dial.

After hours upon hours of work on this R-1050, everything works again, even after I had to restring the dial cord (a slip of the soldering pencil---my fault). Was all this worth it? Yes. The Luxman R-1050 functions perfectly (I don't know about the Phono for Moving Coil cartridges). The tuner is great. This Luxman is worth it and I learned a lot...maybe more than I expected and that's good, too.

But I would like to have a nice 'chat' with the "Epoxy Man" about a thing or two. Good luck to all home techs. :thmbsp:
 
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Maybe he had a couple little crumb-snatchers at home and they kept removing the knobs and he got tired of it. Ya just never know.
 
Wow, that sounds like something my dad would have done. He was a freak with the epoxy tube.
 
Thanks, all! WHAT an adventure this was (is?). As I write, the R-1050 is singing away in the living room, hooked up to everything again after being 'up on blocks' for several weeks. I notice that my TV sound (through the AUX) is a bit less than the CD (Monitor) and my dial needle is a tad off from the exact location, but now I'm going on hiatus and put myself up on blocks (the comfy rocker) and just listen. What's next---recapping? Another day....
You're a great group of those who've 'been there.' Thanks for the support!
 
Manny F said:
Wow, that sounds like something my dad would have done. He was a freak with the epoxy tube.
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Our dads were of the same time period. My dad was ready to bond anything to anything just to see if epoxy would work. I think time period was in the early days of epoxy because the portions from the two tubes had to be exact. Good observation, Manny F!:D
 
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