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PsychMan · 16th May 2018, 8:25 pm

Unfortunatelty no joy with the adjustment. On the selector arm there are indeed 3 screws. The middle is a smaller one listed as the "eccentric screw". To adjust, the other two are slackened, and the eccentric screw turned to make the adjustment.

I've tried a variety of adjustmenst and none will work. If I adjust so 12 inch and 10 inch set down positions are more less OK, then 7 inch records will not play as the selector arm is not recognising any record is there, adjusting back the other way gets me to where I was, and beyond that the arm doesnt move near enough for 12'' records to clear the rest!

The above tells me I have reassembled something underneath incorrectly and still something is out of sync. There is a bushing on the bottom part of the selector assembly with a screw, and while I have tried to adjust this, it appears the bushing is seized onto the post so I don't believe that has moved in the course of my work.

16th May 2018, 8:25 pm	#10
PsychMan Octode Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Fleet, Hampshire, UK Posts: 1,764	Re: Garrard RC121 mk2 Disassembly Issue Unfortunatelty no joy with the adjustment. On the selector arm there are indeed 3 screws. The middle is a smaller one listed as the "eccentric screw". To adjust, the other two are slackened, and the eccentric screw turned to make the adjustment. I've tried a variety of adjustmenst and none will work. If I adjust so 12 inch and 10 inch set down positions are more less OK, then 7 inch records will not play as the selector arm is not recognising any record is there, adjusting back the other way gets me to where I was, and beyond that the arm doesnt move near enough for 12'' records to clear the rest! The above tells me I have reassembled something underneath incorrectly and still something is out of sync. There is a bushing on the bottom part of the selector assembly with a screw, and while I have tried to adjust this, it appears the bushing is seized onto the post so I don't believe that has moved in the course of my work.