If you want your platters to spin more freely then you just need to add some lube to the spindle after taking it apart.
I just fixed the platter spinning not-so-freely issue on my original VCI-100. I had one wheel that worked great, one that had too much friction and made a weird noise and spun to a stop too quickly. No screw tightening will help here, although I did find all the screws holding the jog wheel assembly to the top cover to be very, very loose! My jog wheels were literally hanging loose inside the assembly. Bad Vestax!
Anyway, once I removed the jog wheel assemblies and removed the back covers, there’s a brass leaf spring in there that’s tensioned lightly against the brass center post. On my good wheel, the leaf spring is barely touching the post. On my bad one, it was clearly bent farther over and pushing too hard on the post. I gently unbent the leaf spring just a teeny bit, so that it matched the good one. Put everything back, now it’s perfect.
I should have taken pictures, sorry. Didn’t really think about it at the time.
Good post. We should get the hardware elves to make a photo tutorial.
With this, replacing LEDs, Buttons and Faceplates, soon we’ll be doing full stripdown guides!
White plastic
Hi Ean,
I tried to tighten both the set of screws and the platter is still lose. Worst still while tightening the bottom screws I cracked the white plastic holder.
HELP!!!
Can I can a replacement for this part.
Regards
does the platter lift slightly when pulling? That is normal on some vci-100’s.
as long as its stable and does not wobble then its fine but if there is actual wobble and the wheel is loose then there may be a internal problem.
Broken Part
Hi Ean,
Thank you for your reply.
I accidentally cracked the white plastic within.
Could you help in getting a replacement part?
Regards
Hi Fred,
I tried googling “Vestax parts” and got a list of possible sites that might be able to help. Try that. 
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