Mr B cracking into this Zenith Turntable. #hifiaudio #vintageaudio #audiophile #audiophiles #vintagestereo #workvibes #stereo | The Vintage Audio Shop

Out of order but I'm trying to shake things up a little bit. See the comments for a couple before photos. This 1961 VM built #Zenith Cobra came in for some general maintenance. Quite dirty, and although generally functioning, some of the parts were getting sticky. Customer said it would drop the record but not index. Running it before cleaning, I didn't find that to be the case so shipping may have jostled that. Anyway, everything cleaned and freshly lubricated. Gave it quite a cosmetic cleaning

(Yes, I know the record is off-center and there's some rumble. You get that when it's not on the springs and the baseplate decides to resonate sometimes, then the phone and upload compression make it sound worse. It was acceptable in person). This good looking mid 60s #Zenith came in dirty and missing the platter mat although it still had one of the trim rings. The white tonearm suggests it had a white mat originally, but we replaced it with light gray. Acted upon. Cartridge pivot spring altered

Another nice looking VM #Zenith. We see a lot of these but that doesn't mean they are bad units. They just need some TLC, and with the improved replacement parts should be good indefinitely. At one point VM was producing 200,000 record changers a year for Zenith. The rubber driver/saddle/yoke had fallen out of the cartridge and the customer amazingly still had it, so we were able to put it back on with a tiny spot of superglue on each blade to hold it in place. From one of the fold up units so n