Dual 1228 turntable & changer working, needs TLC For Sale -

FOR saleONE DUAL \" 1228 \" Turntable/Changer

This is a classic Dual turntable from the 1970\'s. Definitely vintage at approx 40 years of age. These are still highly regarded by the vinyl/analog crowd. Do any kind of web search on Dual 1228 with key words like \"quality\" or \"value\" and you will get a lot of hits and material to study. Like many of my generation (baby boomer) I actually owned a Dual (briefly) in the seventy\'s. It was a wise purchase and a not so wise sell. These turntable/changers were just well engineered. And while they didn\'t break the piggy bank and didn\'t have the snob-appeal of the esoteric they were one of those rare products that just worked, and worked well.

History

Acquired out of an estate. I was helping someone clean out an apartment of a close relative who had passed. This turntable had been in the family. The \"family\" consisted of the parents and three daughters, so it undoubtedly got quite a lot of use. I couldn\'t resist rescuing it just because it is a Dual, and it still had it\'s dust cover. I was also informed that it worked, (most likely).

Condition mechanical

I found a stereo lp, a horizontal surface and plugged it in. It does the mechanical things it should do. Hitting the start lever starts the process and the needle lands on the record and it plays. At the end the arm returns to the rest. It works at both speeds and the strobe-light indicator window shows that the speed is approximately right. The speed control does not seem to work. The knob turns a bit, but internally, I don\'t think that the \"idler wheel\" is moving up and down as it should. However the speed is about right so it could be used this way.There is a \"paper scraping\" sound as the platter rotates. I pulled the platter off and underneath found the glued on paper strobe disc. It is a piece of heavy paper underneath the platter which is what you see when you look through the little window just to the right of the platter. The paper is not glued tightly all around, and where it bulges there is a rubbing on the plastic housing that holds the strobe light. This is a common occurrence with these tables. The future owner will either have to find a way to glue that paper securely, or just remove it or remove some of it. Of course it is needed for the strobe window, if you decide you want that functionality.The cuing lift lever works just fine. The lever allows you to lift the needle off of the record. You can then re-position the needle at a particular groove, and then let the needle descend by moving the cuing lever.The plastic dust cover is the one made for this turntable. It has some rubbing and scuff marks. Even has a place where a flower pot made a mark. Only one of the two \"gravity\" hinges is still present on the base. This hinge is a specially shaped block of material that allows one to have the cover in the \"up\" or \"down\" position. It also is not attached to the cover so the cover can be easily removed, which is what the owner will want to do when playing his valuable records.

Conditional electrical

The first and foremost part that the new owner will have to replace is the output cables with the RCA jacks. The plugs were actually rusty! I had to polish them up with some steel-wool, but that doesn\'t work so well. Its is not uncommon with these old tables that these need replacing.I was only getting sound from one channel. This probably means that the switches inside the turntable base which connect to the output cables need adjusting. According to my research, there are switches that disconnect the signal from the cables when the arm returns to its arm-rest. From what I have read these pieces of metal may need to be bent to make sure that they still make contact. It could also be that one channel of the cartridge is dead, but when the arm lifts off of the record I noticed that the 60 cycle hum gets very loud in one channel. This means that the signal wire is not being connected to ground.I do not have a workbench where I could give this turntable further attention at the present time so I have to sell it with the present defects \"as is.\"

Further Notes.

What I like about this turntable is it\'s almost cult-like following. The 1218, 1228, 1219, and 1229 are evidently of very similar design. The models ending with the numeral \"9\" sell for more. The 1218 is just a 1228 without the built in strobe light. I think that the strobe light is cool and adds a lot to the cachet of owning and using a vintage turntable like this. If I had the time, and was still in the vinyl collecting business I would recondition this table myself... but alas...Check out the photos, especially the one where I have removed the platter, and you can see that the internals still look clean. Item is being sold \"as is\" (the meaning of the phrase \"needs TLC\").

Thank you for reading these notes, and...

GOOD LUCK offerDING!!

Please note that I am shipping to USA via USPS (Post Office). For other locations the Global Shipping System is being used.

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