Excellent! This is a legendary, little Thorens... the TD 150 punches well above its weight and can outperform turntables costing thousands of pounds. Sounds superb, well done.
Thanks a lot ! This one is so simple and so direct. It would have been so far deep better by connecting to a hand-made germanium transistor amplifier and miraphon speakers of the same era. That was exacly what I have experienced when I was born 😀
Hey, great vid! We are currently stuck on reassembling the tonearm, specifically screwing the loose part on the inside of it. How exactly did you locate and screw it on? Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you ! I've also faced same problem during one of my previous attempts. I was unaware at the beginning that the inner plate would lose its position. Anyway, I held the tonearm, two holes were looking at downwards position. While looking from the bottom, I tilted the tonearm so that the inner plate’s screw holes became coincident with the outer tone arm holes. I’ve caught one hole with a tweezers, and screwed a longer screw to the second hole. Of course, the best method at the beginning is, unscrew one side at a time, slightly unscrew the second one, and rotate the lose plate to one side. Tighten again this first screw back without the plate. Then unscrew the second one. The inner plate would not lose position. Best wishes !
Very nice restoration! Who made the cartridge? It looks like a Shure! Very nice turntable not much parts inside the bottom kind of like the Fluance is built!
Very informative
Excellent! This is a legendary, little Thorens... the TD 150 punches well above its weight and can outperform turntables costing thousands of pounds. Sounds superb, well done.
Thanks a lot ! This one is so simple and so direct. It would have been so far deep better by connecting to a hand-made germanium transistor amplifier and miraphon speakers of the same era. That was exacly what I have experienced when I was born 😀
Thank you for the detailed video.
You welcome!
Very nice. Hope to do one some day. Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Hey, great vid! We are currently stuck on reassembling the tonearm, specifically screwing the loose part on the inside of it. How exactly did you locate and screw it on? Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you !
I've also faced same problem during one of my previous attempts. I was unaware at the beginning that the inner plate would lose its position. Anyway, I held the tonearm, two holes were looking at downwards position. While looking from the bottom, I tilted the tonearm so that the inner plate’s screw holes became coincident with the outer tone arm holes. I’ve caught one hole with a tweezers, and screwed a longer screw to the second hole.
Of course, the best method at the beginning is, unscrew one side at a time, slightly unscrew the second one, and rotate the lose plate to one side. Tighten again this first screw back without the plate. Then unscrew the second one. The inner plate would not lose position.
Best wishes !
Very nice restoration! Who made the cartridge? It looks like a Shure! Very nice turntable not much parts inside the bottom kind of like the Fluance is built!
You welcome! Cartridge is Pickering V15/AC-2, made in Plainview, N.Y.
The Thorens is far superior turntable when compared with the Fluance...