Thank you Sir Nick for all the videos you have left for us to watch and learn more from it. The present and future viewers will surely treasure these videos that you made for us. RIP Sir. Thank you!
Great video I stumbled across. Useful tips to sort out the same problems on my GL78 also made in 1973. I bought replacement v blocks from Technical and General years ago at Crowborough not sure they still exist though. When the lid shattered in a move ,it took 3 attempts to buy a replacement on ebay ,as they say 3rd time lucky !
Thanks for posting this. I'm thinking of getting a GL75 but at any price I can afford the v-blocks will most likely need replacing. Now I know how it's done and it doesn't look at all hard to do. I've owned and repaired all manner of hi fi equipment over the last 40 years but I have no experience of Goldring GL-series decks so this was very useful.
Nice Job Nick Used To Have One Of These Decks Back in The Seventies Fitted With a Goldring G800e Cartridge Nice Player But Really Heavy its No Garrad 301/401 But a Nice Respectable Decent Player Nonetheless Great Stuff
Hi Cox Good to hear it was helpful. I do need a stacking spindle for my Technics SL1950, but they are very expensive on Ebay. Thanks for the offer though. Keep spinning nick
Will keep my eyes open - turntables frequently show up at the county yard sales here! I do have a lenco question - my tone arm shaft connection directly behind the pivot seems loose - thinking the 2 brass inserts under the arm were allen screws, i tried tigntening them but if they are hex they are smaller than anything i have. Do you know how its put together? Thanks
I never realised the GL78 was auto shutoff. Nice implementation of it too. No doubt the audiophool purists will claim the mechanism negatively affects the sound somehow, but hey these are the same barnpots who spend hundreds on specialist mains leads.
Thanks for the informative video. May I respectfully suggest you get yourself a tripod so you have both hands free? I felt uncomfortable each time something dropped!
Had a GL70 in a lovely wooden box, with an ornately carved lid. Having aquired this deck around the year 2000, it developed a loud hum through the speakers of the amp I have (Exposure XV). Unsure whether it was the deck or the amp, I ended up losing it, as the guy I gave it to denied that there was a fault with the deck. He promptly stripped it for parts, and sold them on eBay, and probably made a tidy profit at my expense. I replaced the Lenco with an Audio Technica AT-LP 120. I wish he had been as thorough and methodical as you are when repairing stuff. Wish I still had that turntable 😥
Hola. Usted podría decirme como extraer del brazo lenco L75 original, el conector donde se enrosca el portacapsula? necesito cambiar su caño de aluminio por uno de carbono y no se cual es su manera. desde ya muchas gracias desde Argentina
I bought L78 and after disassembly in my device is missing black spring loaded device (you have touched it at 25:17 - clamp with laminated spring). Do you have any idea how to create it? Thx
Hi. A difficult one. It could be 3D printed, but you would need to copy one. Possibly get it from a scrap Lenco deck, broken for spares. All the best. Nick
Such an amazing video. I need to do some minor repair works on mine and this covers a lot. Still a little worried about doing things as never done it before. I didn't even know you could put a different cartridge in, I have a Shure one in at the moment but would love to try others, how do you know which ones will work?
great video, my brother has one of these and a pair of Dynatron speakers but i am new to all of this and i don't have a clue how to connect the 2, any help would be much appreciated .
Hi Tommy. You will need an amplifier to go between the deck and the speakers. Connect the deck to the phono input on the amp. Speakers to the speaker terminals. all the best. nick
Hello Nick Can you tell Me where you bought the repair kit for the Gl78 that you show on the video Gold ring gl78 v blocks repair and full service Desmo v block was written on the envelope Thank you
Please let us know if' you've had problems with side to side movement of the arm with those V blocks...I am looking to do the same thing soon on a Lenco B-52....
Hi Nick. Do you or do you know anyone who could carry out a repair/service on our Goldring GL78. Despite watching your very informative video I struggle to have the ability or time to repair ours. We would really love to have it working as it belonged to my later father-in-law and my wife has many memories of listening to it with her father as a child. It was working perfectly fine but now the sound from the left channel is distorted and crackly. I have replaced the cartridge and switched round the speakers which is about the limit of my ability but it still is as bad. Many thanks.
Hi Nick, I have a Goldring Lenco GL75 and I came across a guy in Portugal who sells parts for Goldring turntables. I purchased a new idler wheel made out os silicon. One of the issues with these turntables is the wheels tended to ware badly. I did purchase a new wheel but things being what they re I never got round to fitting it. My GL75 is fitted to a compact Dynatron record player and I had intended removing the deck part and fitting it to a new plinth and cover. It's mad the prices people ask for these decks when in the day they were not considered the best. The seller also makes the pivot block for the tone arm which have the side pieces to stop tone arm side movement. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenco-L75-L76-L78-B55-Tonarmlager-V-Block-Tonearm-Bearing-Upgrade-Replacemet-TOP-/262902717494?hash=item3d36391c36:g:EwkAAOSwCGVX2Vgb www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Goldring-Lenco-L75-L70-L77-B51-B52-F50-Replacement-Upgrade-Silicone-IDLER-TIRE-/262726999307?hash=item3d2bbfdd0b:g:iV0AAOSwys5WVZGo
Hi Nick, One thing that always baffled me was how my staff were quite contemptuous of some makes of turntables. They would say that Gerrard 401 & 301 suffered from rumble and Goldring Lenco were not much better in their minds. I always liked Goldring Lenco decks despite some issues with idler wheels ~that is you had to replace them quite frequently and some people were very critical of the tone arm design. They would rip them out and replace them with SME arms which cost more than the deck. I was quite fortunate and my first turntable was a Thorens TD125 which I had fitted with a SME arm. My staff didn't like SME arms of the time because of the drilled head shells. People would debate the length of the arm and so many other things it drove me mad as a buyer. I think the answer is you can't please all of the people all of the time. So I stuck with well engineered decks from Goldring, Thorens and Dual and then Technics. I used to say you pay your money and make your choice. I have kept all my Technics decks and my pride and joy is a Technics SP10 Mk2 with an audio technica arm with three spare arm tubes so I can change cartridges at will. I think one of the issues was to do with ~High Compliance cartridges which required low mass arms to stop the cantilever of the cartridge breaking. People were mainly using Shure V15 Mk III and IV. I went for the Technics with the boron arm tube which most reviewers said sounded better than the Sure cartridges. When Moving coil cartridges like the Ortofon started to appear SME arms went out of popularity as they favoured high mass arms like the Lenco. The reps used to almost throw cartridges at you with massive discounts. I remember buying a lot of Ortofon cartridges for my own personal use. I think I paid about £20 for a MC20 including the transformer which I still have sitting in it's box. I wish I was back in the trade :-)
Hi Jeremy Sounds like the story of HiFi in general. I have seen pseuds running from a room saying their ears are bleeding, when a perfectly good sounding piece of hifi is playing. These sort of people listen for the imperfections and never listen to the music. All the best nick
Sorry to be a party popper but at best this is a job half done . You seem to think by doing the bare minimum thats all ok . I’m afraid not , these decks have great potential in the right hands . I myself have had the 75 and was well aware of its short comings. But with the right approach it can be made to perform to a descent standard . What I would say is it can make a good transport for the playing of 78 disc’s which is definitely not an easy task to achieve in this modern climate of equipment . I have owned lots hifi that now falls into the category of vintage, and yes it was at the forefront of its time . But things have moved on . And of course they will continue to do so , my advice to anyone who is keen to enter the world of vinyl go for the latest deck you can afford . The playing of vinyl is of it self a journey into the unknown , is the record of decent condition was it well mastered can it be cleaned to improve its sound . Welcome to hifi , if you’re lucky you might get away with the cost of a decent family car , if not then welcome to my world . 😂🤣👍👍😀
Thank you Sir Nick for all the videos you have left for us to watch and learn more from it. The present and future viewers will surely treasure these videos that you made for us. RIP Sir. Thank you!
Thank you. With your help I just replaced the V-block bearings of my tone arm and now my Lenco record player works again.
Great video I stumbled across. Useful tips to sort out the same problems on my GL78 also made in 1973. I bought replacement v blocks from Technical and General years ago at Crowborough not sure they still exist though. When the lid shattered in a move ,it took 3 attempts to buy a replacement on ebay ,as they say 3rd time lucky !
Thanks for posting this. I'm thinking of getting a GL75 but at any price I can afford the v-blocks will most likely need replacing. Now I know how it's done and it doesn't look at all hard to do. I've owned and repaired all manner of hi fi equipment over the last 40 years but I have no experience of Goldring GL-series decks so this was very useful.
Great video. Exactly what I needed. Thanks.
Another Excellent vid. Must do this to my Goldring Lenco GL78!
Hi Ted
Yes, it's not difficult.
Keep rocking
Nick
Nice Job Nick Used To Have One Of These Decks Back in The Seventies Fitted With a Goldring G800e Cartridge Nice Player But Really Heavy its No Garrad 301/401 But a Nice Respectable Decent Player Nonetheless Great Stuff
Thanks Nick,
I could do it because of you.
Thanks for the feedback. Enjoy the spinning. Nick
Thanks so much, my exact table and i learned how to fix it!
if you need anything in the States please yell!
Hi Cox
Good to hear it was helpful.
I do need a stacking spindle for my Technics SL1950, but they are very expensive on Ebay.
Thanks for the offer though.
Keep spinning
nick
Will keep my eyes open - turntables frequently show up at the county yard sales here!
I do have a lenco question - my tone arm shaft connection directly behind the pivot seems loose - thinking the 2 brass inserts under the arm were allen screws, i tried tigntening them but if they are hex they are smaller than anything i have.
Do you know how its put together?
Thanks
Hi
Do you mean the rear of the arm that holds the heavy weight.
That is connected by a rubber bush, and tends to sag?
Is there a way to fix that sagging, Nick?
I never realised the GL78 was auto shutoff. Nice implementation of it too. No doubt the audiophool purists will claim the mechanism negatively affects the sound somehow, but hey these are the same barnpots who spend hundreds on specialist mains leads.
Thanks for the informative video. May I respectfully suggest you get yourself a tripod so you have both hands free? I felt uncomfortable each time something dropped!
Really great video. Thanks
Had a GL70 in a lovely wooden box, with an ornately carved lid. Having aquired this deck around the year 2000, it developed a loud hum through the speakers of the amp I have (Exposure XV). Unsure whether it was the deck or the amp, I ended up losing it, as the guy I gave it to denied that there was a fault with the deck. He promptly stripped it for parts, and sold them on eBay, and probably made a tidy profit at my expense. I replaced the Lenco with an Audio Technica AT-LP 120. I wish he had been as thorough and methodical as you are when repairing stuff. Wish I still had that turntable 😥
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Hi Nick. Great video. I have a L78 mk2 and I have the same autostop problem. Have you had any experience with the MKII?
Hola. Usted podría decirme como extraer del brazo lenco L75 original, el conector donde se enrosca el portacapsula? necesito cambiar su caño de aluminio por uno de carbono y no se cual es su manera. desde ya muchas gracias desde Argentina
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hi , can you share the values of the table beetwin weigth and anti skatin grams?
I bought L78 and after disassembly in my device is missing black spring loaded device (you have touched it at 25:17 - clamp with laminated spring). Do you have any idea how to create it? Thx
Hi. A difficult one. It could be 3D printed, but you would need to copy one. Possibly get it from a scrap Lenco deck, broken for spares. All the best. Nick
Such an amazing video. I need to do some minor repair works on mine and this covers a lot. Still a little worried about doing things as never done it before. I didn't even know you could put a different cartridge in, I have a Shure one in at the moment but would love to try others, how do you know which ones will work?
Does anyone know if you change the phono cables could it improve the sound from the deck or no?
great video, my brother has one of these and a pair of Dynatron speakers but i am new to all of this and i don't have a clue how to connect the 2, any help would be much appreciated .
Hi Tommy. You will need an amplifier to go between the deck and the speakers. Connect the deck to the phono input on the amp. Speakers to the speaker terminals. all the best. nick
Hello Nick
Can you tell
Me where you bought the repair kit for the Gl78 that you show on the video
Gold ring gl78 v blocks repair and full service
Desmo v block was written on the envelope
Thank you
Hi Tim I got them from: Keith Rogers [k-rogers996@ntlworld.com] But that was some time ago, so not sure if he still does them. All the best. Nick
Can u Service my decent GL 75 IDLER WHEEL version? 🙏🎶
Hello Nick, what did you use to check the tone arm was parallel to the record? Thank you.
Hi
I just used my eyes looking from the side.
It is obvious when even a fraction out of parallel.
Please let us know if' you've had problems with side to side movement of the arm with those V blocks...I am looking to do the same thing soon on a Lenco B-52....
Hi Jordan
You can move the arm sideways a little in the V blocks, but it does not do that when playing and has no adverse affects.
Im trying to take the round plate off but im not succeedinh
Hi Nick. Do you or do you know anyone who could carry out a repair/service on our Goldring GL78. Despite watching your very informative video I struggle to have the ability or time to repair ours. We would really love to have it working as it belonged to my later father-in-law and my wife has many memories of listening to it with her father as a child. It was working perfectly fine but now the sound from the left channel is distorted and crackly. I have replaced the cartridge and switched round the speakers which is about the limit of my ability but it still is as bad. Many thanks.
Hi David
Please contact me directly: nick@demonproducts.co.uk.
Hi Nick, do you take in repairs ?
Hi Brian Contact me at nick@demonproducts.co.uk
This deck is pretty close to a Lenco L75?
Hi Tristan. Yes, they made the 75 and 78 at the same time. I think most of the parts are the same, only auto shutoff on the 78.
Okay, thanks. Great video!!:-)
Made in April of 1973 by the date codes....
Hi Nick,
I have a Goldring Lenco GL75 and I came across a guy in Portugal who sells parts for Goldring turntables. I purchased a new idler wheel made out os silicon. One of the issues with these turntables is the wheels tended to ware badly. I did purchase a new wheel but things being what they re I never got round to fitting it. My GL75 is fitted to a compact Dynatron record player and I had intended removing the deck part and fitting it to a new plinth and cover. It's mad the prices people ask for these decks when in the day they were not considered the best. The seller also makes the pivot block for the tone arm which have the side pieces to stop tone arm side movement.
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenco-L75-L76-L78-B55-Tonarmlager-V-Block-Tonearm-Bearing-Upgrade-Replacemet-TOP-/262902717494?hash=item3d36391c36:g:EwkAAOSwCGVX2Vgb
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Goldring-Lenco-L75-L70-L77-B51-B52-F50-Replacement-Upgrade-Silicone-IDLER-TIRE-/262726999307?hash=item3d2bbfdd0b:g:iV0AAOSwys5WVZGo
Hi
Thanks for the info.
Mine had a metal idler wheel.
I am surprised how good the deck sounds.
Hi Nick,
One thing that always baffled me was how my staff were quite contemptuous of some makes of turntables. They would say that Gerrard 401 & 301 suffered from rumble and Goldring Lenco were not much better in their minds. I always liked Goldring Lenco decks despite some issues with idler wheels ~that is you had to replace them quite frequently and some people were very critical of the tone arm design. They would rip them out and replace them with SME arms which cost more than the deck. I was quite fortunate and my first turntable was a Thorens TD125 which I had fitted with a SME arm. My staff didn't like SME arms of the time because of the drilled head shells. People would debate the length of the arm and so many other things it drove me mad as a buyer. I think the answer is you can't please all of the people all of the time. So I stuck with well engineered decks from Goldring, Thorens and Dual and then Technics.
I used to say you pay your money and make your choice.
I have kept all my Technics decks and my pride and joy is a Technics SP10 Mk2 with an audio technica arm with three spare arm tubes so I can change cartridges at will. I think one of the issues was to do with ~High Compliance cartridges which required low mass arms to stop the cantilever of the cartridge breaking. People were mainly using Shure V15 Mk III and IV. I went for the Technics with the boron arm tube which most reviewers said sounded better than the Sure cartridges. When Moving coil cartridges like the Ortofon started to appear SME arms went out of popularity as they favoured high mass arms like the Lenco. The reps used to almost throw cartridges at you with massive discounts. I remember buying a lot of Ortofon cartridges for my own personal use. I think I paid about £20 for a MC20 including the transformer which I still have sitting in it's box. I wish I was back in the trade :-)
Hi Jeremy
Sounds like the story of HiFi in general.
I have seen pseuds running from a room saying their ears are bleeding, when a perfectly good sounding piece of hifi is playing.
These sort of people listen for the imperfections and never listen to the music.
All the best
nick
I know what you mean people who listen to the equipment to even worse the wires and not the music.
Sorry to be a party popper but at best this is a job half done . You seem to think by doing the bare minimum thats all ok . I’m afraid not , these decks have great potential in the right hands . I myself have had the 75 and was well aware of its short comings. But with the right approach it can be made to perform to a descent standard . What I would say is it can make a good transport for the playing of 78 disc’s which is definitely not an easy task to achieve in this modern climate of equipment . I have owned lots hifi that now falls into the category of vintage, and yes it was at the forefront of its time . But things have moved on . And of course they will continue to do so , my advice to anyone who is keen to enter the world of vinyl go for the latest deck you can afford . The playing of vinyl is of it self a journey into the unknown , is the record of decent condition was it well mastered can it be cleaned to improve its sound . Welcome to hifi , if you’re lucky you might get away with the cost of a decent family car , if not then welcome to my world . 😂🤣👍👍😀
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