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Okay, before I was so rudely interrupted last night & by that I mean the board disappeared, I posted this in response to all the butter finger accidents everyone seemed to be having:
I feel sorry for all of you! So far I haven't managed to break anything. Now the question is, who's coming over to my house to help me get started breaking stuff?

3victrolas

Ah! It's nice to see a phono related thread again.

All I ever broke, was 12in. 78, by accidently, steping on it. I was little upset, but since it was a freebie. I got over it.

Paul

A $200 Louis Armstrong record....... I am still crying about that one!

I just happend to think.... About ten years ago at Union I saw a Victor Revere get caught by a gust of wind and tumble off of a lift gate...... It was a total loose! Fortunately it wasn't mine, but I still felt real bad for the guy.

maginter wrote:I just happend to think.... About ten years ago at Union I saw a Victor Revere get caught by a gust of wind and tumble off of a lift gate...... It was a total loose! Fortunately it wasn't mine, but I still felt real bad for the guy.

That story makes me want to go into cardiac arrest!

Usually just the odd part trying to clean a motor.

That and the odd record.

I guess I have to consider myself lucky (at least I didn't have a Revere tumble out of a tailgate...I think I would have broken down and cried)

Since we are coming clean on some of the mistakes we have made over the years here is another one. A dealer brought me an outside horn gramophone to repair. It was a rather cheaply made English machine. I can't recall the make as it this was back in 1972. Having repaired the machine i was carrying it out to my car which was down a steep driveway. I tripped and fell head first to the ground. I held on to the gramophone only letting go at the last minute before i did a face plant. The machine landed flat on its base, but with such a force that the case literally exploded. I lay there nursing my wounds and surveying the disaster. Oddly enough the next day i was able to put the whole thing back together. Fortunatly all the case pieces had just come unglued,and with no damage!!

flashpanblue wrote:Since we are coming clean on some of the mistakes we have made over the years here is another one. A dealer brought me an outside horn gramophone to repair. It was a rather cheaply made English machine. I can't recall the make as it this was back in 1972. Having repaired the machine i was carrying it out to my car which was down a steep driveway. I tripped and fell head first to the ground. I held on to the gramophone only letting go at the last minute before i did a face plant. The machine landed flat on its base, but with such a force that the case literally exploded. I lay there nursing my wounds and surveying the disaster. Oddly enough the next day i was able to put the whole thing back together. Fortunatly all the case pieces had just come unglued,and with no damage!!

At least there was a happy ending!

I was carrying a carriage with a nice steel Model O reproducer in it and didn't know the reproducer was not screwed down. The thing launched from the cradle and hit my tile floor breaking the hinge block and bending the wire weight guide. Lucky it could all be repaired. If it was pot metal, it would have been history!

Folks,

Ouch, ooh, waah! Good Lord!

Off the top of my head the worst thing I ever did, besides wreck the finish on my VV-VI-a was take apart the Taper-Tube and base on my Granada! OH MY SAINTED AUNT! was that a headache! Don't ever do that gang! Trust me! I did get it back together but it was at least a five hand job. I've broken a few records here and there, but not an Armstrong yet Maginter.

S., We're on our way over! Just leave the records on the couch and we'll do the rest.

Regards,
John