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The best things I found inside a Diamond Disc machine were a small leather bag full of $20 gold pieces, a Bettini attachment and reproducer along with a pink Lambert cylinder and a half eaten sandwich from Subway...

It's getting deep here. I'd better get the hip-waders
Harvey Kravitz

Curt A wrote:The best things I found inside a Diamond Disc machine were a small leather bag full of $20 gold pieces, a Bettini attachment and reproducer along with a pink Lambert cylinder and a half eaten sandwich from Subway...

I brought home a Columbia Viva-Tonal last year and saw something scurry out of the corner of my eye as I began to open it up for some cabinet repair. A family of roaches had set up housekeeping inside. Yuck! Fortunately there was a can or raid handy.

Clay

FloridaClay wrote:I brought home a Columbia Viva-Tonal last year and saw something scurry out of the corner of my eye as I began to open it up for some cabinet repair. A family of roaches. Yuck! Fortunately there was a can or raid handy.

Clay

This is something I always worry about when bringing home antique furniture or phonographs, I'd hate for a roach family to decide to stay...

HisMastersVoice wrote:

FloridaClay wrote:I brought home a Columbia Viva-Tonal last year and saw something scurry out of the corner of my eye as I began to open it up for some cabinet repair. A family of roaches. Yuck! Fortunately there was a can or raid handy.

Clay

This is something I always worry about when bringing home antique furniture or phonographs, I'd hate for a roach family to decide to stay...

Not to mention....Silverfish,etc.....

gramophone78 wrote: Not to mention....Silverfish,etc.....

Oh yes, those creep me out...

I do have to give credit to the spider that helped me discover the original owners manual to my C-19, though. Whilst trying to exterminate it, the little bugger slipped through the record storage slots. When I used a flashlight to locate it, there sat the manual wedged in the corner, covered in decades of dust. The spider got away, as I was too focused on recovering the manual at that point. It may still be lurking behind my diamond discs to this day...

HisMastersVoice wrote: It may still be lurking behind my diamond discs to this day...

Unless it's a Black Widow or a Brown Recluse, I wouldn't worry. Spiders are useful for keeping other bugs at bay…

Bill

Lucius1958 wrote:

HisMastersVoice wrote: It may still be lurking behind my diamond discs to this day...

Unless it's a Black Widow or a Brown Recluse, I wouldn't worry. Spiders are useful for keeping other bugs at bay…

Bill

I don't think it was either, but we do have lots of Black Widows in the garage...

HisMastersVoice wrote:

Lucius1958 wrote:

HisMastersVoice wrote: It may still be lurking behind my diamond discs to this day...

Unless it's a Black Widow or a Brown Recluse, I wouldn't worry. Spiders are useful for keeping other bugs at bay…

Bill

I don't think it was either, but we do have lots of Black Widows in the garage...

Yikes! Time to call that Orkin Man!

Clay

On the platter is under the lid, so technically that makes it inside the phonograph...
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little rascal James.