I refurbed my dream turntable, a Pioneer PL-7E!

She was a pleasure to work on. I changed the grommets, had the idler rebuilt, cleaned out the old oil and im now using precision lube for the motor and spindle bearing. Swapped out the old bearing pad for a delrin one. Cleaned up the chasis, stained the base a dark mahagony, bought an OEM headshell and put an OEM cartridge the PL-C6 on the arm. I even bought a JIS RCA cable for the arm (still waiting for that in the mail). She is as quiet as a belt drive table. Figured id share my rare find with you guys. Id post pictures but not sure how from my iphone.

 

That is an amazing, underrated piece of Japanese turntable art right there. I repaired one years ago for a client. I hated to see it leave my workshop. I liked it.

 

How do you post pictures on here? And yes i agree, i love this table!! It is a work of art from the tonearm all the way through to the base.

 

Use an image hosting site or app like Imgur. Upload the image there, then post the direct link here using the pic button in the toolbar.

I'm a big fan of vintage Pioneers. Good choice!

 

Nice one dude! Where da pics at jefe?

 

Oh neat! I didn't realize Pioneer made an idler wheel turntable.

 

Never heard one but seen em. She's a looker.

 

Trying to add some pictures now.

 

Here you go guys!! Pioneer PL-7E

 

They have quite a few models. I also have a PL-6A i refurbed.

 

My PL-6A. Imgur: The magic of the Internet

 

Pioneer PL-6A

 

Let's make it easier to see:




Nice looking tables.

 

How did you do this??

 

That is very cool! Never heard of this tt and I also had no idea there are panasonic idler tables. Very cool can we see under the platter? (Guess I could just google pics but this is more fun)

Congrats!

 

Go to your Imgur pic, right click on pic, select "copy image address" from menu. Open up the reply window on this forum and select the "image" icon (next to the smiley face) in the reply window. Copy image address in the window that pops up. The image appears in the reply window.

There are a few ways to do it, but that's how I do it.

 

Wow, what a beauty! Are those semi auto?

 

Very Nice!

 

Wow! Congratulations.

 

Pioneer, not Panasonic.

 

Thank you!!

 

No, both the PL-7E and PL-6A are full manual.

 

Im using an iphone. No right clicking. Lol

 

Ill get some idler pix up in the next few days.