{"id":244,"date":"2020-09-02T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mchadw.com\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:40:59","slug":"pioneer-pl-640","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mchadw.com\/blog\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer PL-640"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it has been 3 years since I last posted but I have been busy. This is the first record player I have refurbished in a long time. I found this one at a thrift store for a good price. It was in pretty good shape, and worked fine. It is heavier than it looks. It needed cleaning and a new cartridge. I also replaced the dust cover hinges with ones I luckily found at auction. One was missing and the other was broken. There is a spot on the front where something had stuck and melted to it. I cleaned it up as best I could. EDITED: This turntable is currently <del>in use at the house<\/del> for sale. 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This is the first record player I have refurbished in a long time. I found this one at a thrift store for a good price. It was in pretty good shape, and worked fine. It is heavier than it looks. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mchadw.com\/blog\/?p=244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pioneer PL-640&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mchadw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mchadw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mchadw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mchadw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mchadw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mchadw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"http:\/\/mchadw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mchadw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mchadw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mchadw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}