Yes, my thoughts at first on my problem, but in the end it turned out to be
the relay contacts, not as i thought the switch in the headphone socket.
Very strange things, contacts. Of course in my case there was no actual
switch in the headphone socket, but the phones worked if you turned off the
speakers with the speaker switches. This is counter intuitive as one would
have imagined that more current would make the relay work, not less.

As I say though if the headphone is a switch its always worth a squirt of
electrolube, NOT wd 40, for goodness sake.

Brian

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"Phil Allison" wrote in message
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"Astley Le Jasper"

My long serving Marantz PM 6010 OSE is ill and before I dump it, I
wondered if it was worth salvaging.

A while ago, one of the channels stopped working. However, when I
plugged a headphone socket in and then out, everything would be fine
for a few months. However, that doesn't work anymore.

Does that give anyone an idea of what's wrong with it?


** Eeeeeeyeeep.....


It's hardly worth taking it to be checked out, because I'll have to
pay someone to look at it ... and might as well get a new amp. It
would be a shame though.

(I've checked it with different sources and also listening using
headphone, but that one channel has definitely gone.)


** Suggests you get a can of WD40 ( or similar) a squirt a jot or two
down the headphone socket hole.

Then insert and remove a plug a couple of times.

As Bill Maynard ( aka Greengrass would say -

" it's magic ! "




...... Phil