Carlos, if you could post dimensions of those arms it may help the OP find an arm.CarlosV wrote:I don't think finding a replacement tonearm will be easy: this machine utilises a very short arm, that was only used on the HMV nursery model besides this 33 and the model 29. All three are quite scarce machines. I have both the 33 and the 29. You can fit a portable HMV101 tonearm on the 33, but it is too long and the needle will extend far beyond its ideal location over the spindle, which is not good for the reproduction not for the records. I don't know if Victor ever manufactured such short arm, but usually Victor and HMV hardware are not easily exchangeable, they look similar but when you try to fit them you notice that the dimensions are not the same (from personal experience ...).PeterF wrote:I'd say replacing the tonearm with a Victor or HMV one will be super easy - and that allows you to make it authentic again since you already have the proper (HMV #2) reproducer for it.
See the link I added earlier for pix of an authentic machine to see what sort of tonearm to find (although I'm not sure the horn on that one is correct).
The problem with Victor arms is that almost all of them had the back bracket with swivel pin up top which these do not have.
There is a variant of the VV-50 that has an arm that looks identical to the HMV 33. Your point about just enough difference in sizing as to be not exchangeable is well taken, though, as I have run into this myself. He'd need dimensions and detail on the base as well as length. The reproducer mount sizes ARE the same so his HMV 2 should fit the Victor arm without issue.
The other problem with an HMV 101 arm is that the base is far shorter than my HMV 32. I'm assuming that 33 would have the same arm base. I tried to take the easy way out on my 32 and use a near mint 101 arm and base but it was so far off both ways I wound up prepping and re- nickeling the original arm.
See the pics at the top of P. 4 here for the VV-50 arm I'm thinking of:
http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... 9&start=30