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Old 18th Nov 2009, 3:16 am   #3
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Default Re: repairing 1950s Philips record player, long post

Hi and welcome to the forum!

My experiences with Philips autochangers have, on the whole, not been good -
Overcomplicated mechanisms, bendy thin metal parts, cartridge/heads which die and are hard to find cheaply and difficult to adapt to any other cartridge....and to cap it all, yours has bits missing! I would forget it and fit in a 'period' BSR or Garrard deck, as the deck fitted already is probably not worth spending time on.

As concerns the wiring, the outer 'metal woven stocking' braid you mention is the ground wire and the other two coloured ones might be for stereo left and right. BUT, In this case, one of the red cables might be also ground, if the system is mono - you say that there are two banana plugs used to connect the record deck to the amp, and the outer braid is 'soldered to one of the wires some how'.
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