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   From: Tony.Miklos@gmail.com   
      
   On 3/6/2011 4:16 PM, Rob in NYC wrote:   
   > Aiden,  Rock-olas of this era often suffer from tarnished or glazed   
   > ring contacts on the large pin wheel.   This may be your problem   
   > here.  Try just cleaning the rings with alcohol or contact cleaner on   
   > a piece of rough paper.   I have had several R-Os of this design and   
   > frankly they should have copied Rowe/AMIs method of using "scratch"   
   > type contact fingers.  Whenever I sold one of these I gave   
   > instructions as to how to clean these as it will be needed ever few   
   > months.   
   >   
   > Rob   
      
   Rob, if they need cleaning every few months there is a big problem.   
   When doing a quick or a full overhaul of that design Rock-Ola's I remove   
   the search arm, then the entire wobble plate and clean the rings with a   
   mild abrasive, like the 3M pads, but harder then the green ones.  Then I   
   clean the contacts well and give them a little more pressure.  Put it   
   together and it's good for quite a few years.  I'd guess the average   
   time it needs to be cleaned again is 10 or more years, not months.  It's   
   just too difficult to do a proper cleaning without taking it apart.   
      
   Oh, and the search arm gets it's own little rebuild/cleaning too while   
   it's off.   
      
   Tony   
   East Tennessee   
      
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