"lordy" wrote in message
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On 2006-09-03, Don Pearce wrote:
I've been thinking. I don't know this deck, so I have no idea how
flexible the various bits are, but is there any chance that when you
put it down on a soft, uneven surface, you are actually pushing the
bottom panel up sufficiently to touch the motor chassis? That could
easily have this sort of effect.

Hi,
Just checked with it resting on a firm flat surface, and holding it in
mid-air, same noise.


This positively screams *transit screws* to me - are you sure you've taken
them off??

I have only had experience of one Debut myself but there were no such
problems with it. As you say, they have been reviewed many times and many
thousands have been sold - I have not seen anything like that noise
mentioned *anywhere* and no-one in his right mind would put up with it!! So,
unless you have been double unlucky (same batch/same shipment/same fault?) I
would say the fault lies with you - try lifting the earth on the computer
mains lead (or better yet on an extension lead - **at your own risk**) and
see if it helps. I seem to remember having to do that at one time.....

Planks like the cheaper Debuts and Regas are never going to be the
*quietest* decks and spending your way further up this particular avenue
doesn't promise a fix, if you ask me. Also eBay can be a bit of a minefield
if you don't know what you are doing so I would try and get the deck you
have sorted. Is there somewhere else you can try it - another location or
can you borrow another deck to compare?

Where are you located? You could bring it here (St Neots, Cambs) and I could
'it it wiv a nammer for you....!! ;-)