Re: For Sale: Fairy Phonograph Lamp: SOLD!
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2018 2:52 pm
Here are the details for anyone interested:
I was the first inquiry and Dave offered it to me for a price - $750, which I did not decline. We were in the middle of negotiating (as far as I knew), I never said "NO to his offer - we were PMing back and forth and I was trying to find out if the motor worked or not.
I just received a PM thanking me for my interest, but it was sold. I really don't care, since I already have one... just wish he had said there was another interested party and asked if I was ready to go ahead... I just consider it poor negotiation manners, but no hard feelings.
The biggest issue in buying a Fairy Phonograph Lamp (and what caused my hesitation) is determining what works and what doesn't, because if the motor is bad nothing else will fit in the base - it is proprietary and finding someone to rewind or fix the motor is almost impossible - I know from experience. The switches in the arm are also another thing that are often bad, in fact on mine, I had to custom make switches using modern rotary switches and a custom housing to fit in the arm. Unlike other common phonographs, no parts are available for this machine and finding something as simple as a reproducer (which is incorrect on this machine) is no easy task, in fact it's a needle in a haystack type search... So, good luck...
I was the first inquiry and Dave offered it to me for a price - $750, which I did not decline. We were in the middle of negotiating (as far as I knew), I never said "NO to his offer - we were PMing back and forth and I was trying to find out if the motor worked or not.
I just received a PM thanking me for my interest, but it was sold. I really don't care, since I already have one... just wish he had said there was another interested party and asked if I was ready to go ahead... I just consider it poor negotiation manners, but no hard feelings.
The biggest issue in buying a Fairy Phonograph Lamp (and what caused my hesitation) is determining what works and what doesn't, because if the motor is bad nothing else will fit in the base - it is proprietary and finding someone to rewind or fix the motor is almost impossible - I know from experience. The switches in the arm are also another thing that are often bad, in fact on mine, I had to custom make switches using modern rotary switches and a custom housing to fit in the arm. Unlike other common phonographs, no parts are available for this machine and finding something as simple as a reproducer (which is incorrect on this machine) is no easy task, in fact it's a needle in a haystack type search... So, good luck...