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The R200 tonearm has been around for well over 30 years and most (all?) suffer from the same problem of the bias belt degrading and finally snapping, which then makes bias adjustment impossible. If you are lucky it will fail stuck at a high setting of 1.5-2.0g, but it is difficult to know where it is set. A miniature toothed belt moves a magnet up and down inside the arm pillar which sets the required outward force for optimum tracking. The belts are no longer supplied by Rega (if they ever were) and I couldn’t find a UK supplier; I finally managed to find a USA supplier but posting was a very high fixed price for one belt, so I bought a batch to sell on here and then again. That was a few years ago now.The new belt as supplied is somewhat less stiff compared to the original, which means a small spacer must be inserted in order to keep the belt taught and maintain the meshing between two gear wheels. This is vital to getting the belt to function properly. I have laser cut these to the correct profile and attached a self-adhesive backing to stick inside the arm housing. Im not going to pretend this is a trivial 10 min fix because it isnt. To get to the belt you have to partially strip the arm pillar and remove the bottom ball race, which was factory set all those years ago for optimum friction and bearing play; taking off is relatively easy, but getting it back and adjusted to optimum not so easy. I spoke with the well-known Glaswegian tonearm expert before attempting my first repair and he told me that he is not keen on working with the R200. Anyway, I have now fixed many veteran arms for myself and others and Im happy with the results, but I am very hands-on and have worked in micro-systems engineering for years. If you want to have a go to restore your arm here is your chance. I have even helped a few purchasers. I will include a brief instruction sheet although there is a fair amount of advice to be found on-line. You will also need to be able to de-solder and solder the fine internalwires back to the socket connection of the phono leads.To be clear: what you are buying is a new Kevlar reinforced miniature toothed replacement belt + self-adhesive spacer.If you are thinking of replacing the internal arm wire my advice would be to do this at the same time.
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