22-01-2014, 09:04 AM
These are standard slotted head screws of the type always used in the 'old' days. The Amplion is a valved record player with a BSR UA8 deck, so I guess it dates from c.1958 or thereabouts. I don't have a Dremel or a drill with a flexible shaft, and the screws in question are two of the ones in the side of the wooden motor board, and a conventional electric drill won't go between the side of the deck and the cabinet, particularly at the rear, because of the PU Arm base. I might try as you suggest, Refugee. In the meantime, if I can rech under the motor board to where the front transit screw is located and release the clip, I may be able to lift the deck enough to get at the rear Transit screw, then the deck can come out, and then perhaps i can get at the underside of the two screws in question. The Player needs to be completely dismantled so that the cabinet can be thouroughly cleaned in any case (pun intended!!)
