"Ross Matheson" wrote in message
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I wonder if the local vinyl cognoscenti might be able to help here?
A friend left his TD160 with shot motor bearings with me a while ago.
Thorens USA wanted USD$160 for a replacement motor, which just seemed so
absurd given it's squitty size, and the ~double exchange rate in NZ, that
I didn't bother following it up. Has anyone any idea for a replacement?
My friend is wondering why such an apparently simple fault takes so long!
He's now pressing for its return, and I'd like to be able to find a
solution for him. I wonder if there are any generic replacements, or a
more reasonably priced parts source that someone knows of?
The correct belt would be handy, too - maybe a tight belt caused this.

Buy a TD-160 on ebay and just have the motor shipped out to you - easy

"Oddjob" wrote:

: "Ross Matheson" wrote in message
: ...
: I wonder if the local vinyl cognoscenti might be able to help here?
: A friend left his TD160 with shot motor bearings with me a while ago.
: Thorens USA wanted USD$160 for a replacement motor, which just seemed so
: absurd given it's squitty size, and the ~double exchange rate in NZ, that
: I didn't bother following it up. Has anyone any idea for a replacement?
: My friend is wondering why such an apparently simple fault takes so long!
: He's now pressing for its return, and I'd like to be able to find a
: solution for him. I wonder if there are any generic replacements, or a
: more reasonably priced parts source that someone knows of?
: The correct belt would be handy, too - maybe a tight belt caused this.
:
: Buy a TD-160 on ebay and just have the motor shipped out to you - easy

A kind soul has already contacted me by email and offered to send one.
(You know who you a-) Thanks ever so much! Overwhelmed, I am!

Now, I've been reading up on belts - in view of this and similiar warnings
on the vinyl asylum - a search on its subject there brings *lots* more -
http://tinyurl.com/hkic and browsing the excellent material at the Thorens
Dept pages of http://www.theanalogdept.com/ - also downloading the service
manual. Hopefully all this will improve relations with my friend after
having had his table in storage here unfixed ("unfixable!") for, um, years!

So far I've found a slightly oversize belt at a local surplus shop here for
the princely sum of NZ$3, which seems as though it will not stress the new
motor, and just stay on, but I'll look into the issue further, since it
seems to have been a problem for several people. This motor had been making
horrible graunching sounds, and I'm convinced now it had come about from
the use of an inappropriately tight generic belt replacement in the past.

According to http://www.turntablebelts.com/thorens.htm the correct TD-160
belt is 20" - a TD-166 19.6" - and there's also a very long thread on the
vinyl asylum with a chap finding his TD-160 running slow until he
eventually tried a 21.4" - originally using 19.6 and 20" belts ...

Bit more on replacement belts, official and generic versions, at
http://www.theanalogdept.com/replacing_the_belt.htm

All in all it's been interesting, and once again I am very grateful to the
reader who offered to search out and send the replacement motor he has
stashed in the attic - even if it takes him a couple of days to find it!:=)
Hopefully we'll be sorting out postage payment & etc soon :=})

I hope some of the above links may turn out to be useful to others ...

Cheers, RdM