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Device to lessen record wear?
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 5:53 pm
by Estey Organ
Hi-
Sorry I can’t figure out how to send a direct link, but there is a seller on eBay offering a spring device which acts like a counterweight on auoustic reproducers.
Does anyone have pros or cons about adding such a device to an Orthophonic Victrola?
Re: Device to lessen record wear?
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 7:29 pm
by burke
I stumbled on it too and posted a query. Here is the post and the replies.
http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... 14&t=34822
I decided personally - it may work, it may not, can't be bothered, but still interesting.
Re: Device to lessen record wear?
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 2:00 pm
by epigramophone
Here is the beautifully simple weight adjuster on my Micro-Perophone Chromogram. No need for springs.
Re: Device to lessen record wear?
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 7:58 pm
by burke
epigramophone wrote:Here is the beautifully simple weight adjuster on my Micro-Perophone Chromogram. No need for springs.
If there was a like button in the forum I would definitely "like' this! It looks to me like the simple counterweight adjustment found on turntables from my youth... on all of them I think.
Re: Device to lessen record wear?
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 8:10 pm
by burke
And if you had an abused record who else remembers putting a dime or a nickle on the stylus to make your DOOBIE BROTHERS album play though it?