They are serious: Their website sports – ready for this: 30 laser projectors. Epson is the number 1 selling projector manufacturer worldwide (if you don’t count those tiny, dim, toyish pico/pocket projectors). Over the past two years or so, Epson has definitely been one of the leaders in laser projectors. Here she is ready for testing after a clean, lube and fixing the drive gear… Cleaned, lubed, fixed and ready for the owner, except that he decided he wanted me to fit an Ortofon 2M Blue.2019 however, may well be a transition year where there is a huge increase in laser projector models, and sales, especially into the higher education and business, and specialty market segments. It needs to be glued back together and re-installed on the spindle. ![]() Remove the platter and we can see why the owner reported the deck to be not working properly… You see that crack in this drive gear? That was why this deck was broken. Just in case the strobe dies, you can fall back on an incandescent light driven by mains frequency AC, shone onto this strobe pattern in the center of the platter. My goodness, the Japanese really knew how to make a proper turntable. One the other side of the deck you get speed selection and fine adjustment, with a strobe indicator thrown in for good measure. Here you can see the start/stop lever, arm raise/lower lever, records size and repeat knobs. Close-up of the headshell and deck controls. Nice job JVC… Nice s-shaped tonearm with anti-skate, always nice to see and usually found on proper decks. Right, so here she is, fully clothed, looking slim and very space-aged. See below for some images of the work and further explanations. We settled on an Ortofon 2M Blue, a very nice moving magnet cartridge and one which works perfectly on this tonearm. The owner had also fitted a very cheap and awful-sounding cartridge to the deck and I explained to him that this really needed to be binned, in favour of something much more befitting of a deck of this quality. I repaired the gear and mounted it on the spindle using adhesives that won’t allow it to budge. The spindle-mounted drive gear had cracked and was essentially spinning on the spindle. This particular JL-F45 needed some work to repair the auto-return mechanism and the owner wanted a much better cartridge fitted. Tonearm: statically balanced, s-shaped, tubular pipe arm with TH balancing system and tracking force dialĬartridge weight: 14 to 25g (inc headshell) The specifications are courtesy of the Vinyl Engine, and you can visit here to find an owner’s manual too! JVC JL-F45 Specifications The JL-F45 is very solidly built, weighing in at 11kg. You hit play and the deck then lifts, cues and lowers the tonearm automatically for you – nice! ![]() You should not, as long as the deck is functioning correctly, ever have to touch the tonearm to play a record. For those who don’t know, fully automatic means that the tonearm is controlled by the turntable, not by you. The JVC JL-F45 is a fully automatic direct-drive deck. I was surprised by the weight and overall build quality of this lovely direct-drive turntable. ![]() 2.3 Related I’ve just finished servicing yet another interesting and unusual direct drive deck – a JVC JL-F45 – what a cool machine!
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