The Amazing Record Changer By Stromberg Carlson Model 14

[leadlike]

I was wondering if you could intermix records, since it looked like the drop mechanism was pushing the tonearm to the diameter of the disc that was to be played. Clever.

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a "time capsule home" real estate listing, featuring your machine still in the den, along with a late 40's RCA projection television.

[Uncle Vanya]

I've owned two of these magnificent machines. Unfortunately, both suffered from loss of the large pot-metal cam which moves the tone arm. When I say "Loss", I mean that the part had broken off and fallen out of the machine, nowhere to be found by the time I purchased the machines. IN both cases they were restored as single play machines. I ma glad to see yours operating properly. You do beautiful work.

[startgroove]

Tnx! This one had a bad tone arm mount also, with missing pieces. The old mount was replaced by one made from pieces of aluminum and brass (that was a quite a job to make). Since there were some chunks missing from the original one, it took some guesswork of how it was designed, resulting in a piece that works, though it may not be an exact copy of the original. There was no evidence of an adjustment for tone arm height, so I added one, thinking it might have been lost with the rest of the missing pieces. Now, the tone-arm works as it should, except there doesn't seem to be any way to adjust the starting point on the records. As it is, the tone-arm sets down a few grooves beyond the start groove.

On this set, the cam (which positions the tone arm and the swing arm) is made of cast iron. Other pot metal parts are the base of the swing arm and the shoe at the end of the swing arm. Both of those show signs of expansion, but they are still intact and function-able.

BTW, Uncle Vanya, what happened to your animated avatar?