I've hunted for parts over the years and only found miscellaneous ebay sales. You may need to buy a second arm to have spare parts on hand. If you find another source, please let us know.
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The counterweight, and arm wand.. For ANY TT are nearly impossible to aquire. My rule is NEVER buy a TT missing the spindle, platter, headshell, armwand, or counterweight!! The TT may seem like a great bargain, but trust me, it is NOT! In general, do not buy a TT missing anything!(except TT that are designed to accept other arms, then no arm is ok) Anyone with a spare part, is NOT gonna sell it. Unless you can make an offer they can't refuse. ((they are your mother in law...etc..) |
The counterweights or their replacements are occasionally available in Japan. I'd have thought a 'NOS original armpipe screw' would be impossible to find, but could probably be replaced with another '3rd party' screw. I will take a look around for the C/W. Elizabeth, the other way to do it is to only buy TTs where the parts can be found. For Micro Seiki 1500-series TTs, and things like Garrard 301s, all parts can be found given a bit of time (and the willingness to part with money for them). |
Donshoemaker, For the weights, there is a guy here who sells MA-505-series main weights and sub weights (his store is a metal workshop). The main weight is JPY 9,000 (about US$90), and the subweight JPY 1,000 less (about $10 less). To me that is a fair bit (shipping would add a bit but not much) but 'parts arms' go for more, and I don't know what a machinist where you are would charge. There is another guy who does MS parts and I will try to get his name/site and post it here soon. |
Also, look on eBay for a machinist who sells anti-skate weights for Dynavector tonearms and the like, "Peter" by name I think. Contact him. He can make anything. He made a perfect reproduction of a main counterweight for my DV505 (the thing that looks like a small hockey puck at the rear of the pivot point), at the exact correct weight as well. |
. Hi T_bone. Any idea where I can find a Kenwood headshell for the KD-770D, the one with the straight armwand but uses SME style connector with angled detachable headshell? So so very hard to find... Thanks! _____ |
Hiho, No clue other than to wait for one to come around. I know they made them for after-sale because I saw a table in Japan years ago which came with something like 5 extra headshells still in their boxes. I think the KP-07M made by Micro is the only other 'Kenwood family' table with a straight arm and SME-type headshell mount (and I am only going off what I t-h-i-n-k the KP-07M headshell is having seen the arm a few times. That said, you might try something else... there was a cheapo Denon table made until 4-5yrs ago called the DP-300F. It had the same kind of headshell I am pretty sure. Given there is a Japanese standard which defines the headshell collar to stylus tip distance at exactly a certain distance, it will probably work if you can get the offset angle right. Try googling "PCL- 310" or "Denon DP-300F headshell". The mounting distance is a full inch shorter (Denon shorter) so the offset angle will probably be off, but the Denon headshell has long slots to mount the cart so I bet you could angle the cart out a couple of degrees to get it right. You could probably find one cheap enough on fleapay to have a crack at it. Harmon Kardon also made straight arms with removable headshells back in the day, and perhaps others did too. The other solution would be to put a different arm on, or just wait for the Kenwood headshell (either for the KD-770D or the KP-07M) to come up on fleapay. |