The size of the crank & latches compared to the rest makes it look diminutive. I am sure it has more horn than the average Birch 500 or Waters-Conley Phonola one is likely to find in the USA so it is already a nice find.Inigo wrote: ↑Tue Nov 09, 2021 7:24 pm It looks as having a big exponential horn inside... Must sound very well ... although similar to other portables, those have the tonearm at the back, so the horn is a bit longer. In this one, the mounting of the tonearm suggests that the horn runs along the large side and then turns right along the short side straight to the back opening. Shorter and wider than the other horns. Anyway, summing up the length of tonearm, large and short sides, it could well reach a total length of four feet for the sound pipe... not bad!
My 202 runs great & looks great, of course, but it is just now starting to show pot-metal decline with the internal horn; I found a fragment of metal that had crystallized & dropped off the horn. I need to disassemble it, remove that section, and try building something new out of modern materials. Technology has advanced enough to make repairing it something more than a pipe-dream. I am not interested in letting it go to the bad.
This 125 is a cute design & I am thinking about picking it up, giving it a cleanup & a bit of oil, and putting it to work. The tonearm may be brass as the plating is in nice shape.