Under the Covers of the Technics SL 10 Turntable….
by Nick Seiflow
The beautifully easy-to-operate Technics SL10 is anything but simple under the smooth lines of its aluminum skin.
What follows is not a manual for disassembly and maintenance, but more of a tribute to the Golden Age of turntable design.
Such a table as the SL-10 could never be made again. Sad, but based on the economies of scale whomsoever tried to build and market such a machine would quickly find themselves selling pencils on the street corner. To design this table from scratch alone would involve massive amounts of R&D. let alone actually making and marketing it.
Technics SL 10 Turntable – A view of the arm assembly before the work begins… The problem – broken thread, no arm movement, no music. The dust looks worse than it really is…. many screws to remove, and some wiggling to remove the record clamp, and work can begin!