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I recently acquired a nice Polly Portable machine. I do have one problem, it seems that the turntable slows half way through the record. I am wondering if this is a mainspring problem. Everything else looks great. If it is the mainspring are they difficult to remove the barrels?

I completely serviced the motor on my Polly a couple years ago and don't remember it to be particularly difficult. Just take lots of pictures while you disassemble, then it should be no problem. Of course, even with a freshly lubricated motor and springs mine barely makes it through a 10" record. The springs aren't very strong to begin with. Maybe a new spring would improve things, but it's more a novelty, not a regular player to me anyway.

Andreas

I have noticed that the Polly portable has a rather heavy metal tonearm that must really wear down records. Mine easily plays through an entire 10" record though.

Is the horn on your machine the Plain Green, with the Parrot, thus denoting a Polly Portable? Were there other Styles of Paper cones for the Polly to your knowledge?
Thanx, & Best Regards--
Stephen

The regular paper cone for the Polly Portable was the standard green one. On the instruction disc there is also a mention of an "Ultra horn", which was discussed previously http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... =2&t=16719. The identical Brunswich Parisian had a horn with basket weave pattern and the UK version, the Guiniephone had yet another pattern cone.

If you search the forum for Polly Portable you will find several threads discussing Polly Portable horn cones, including replacement cones that were offered by member Curt Angstman.

Andreas

I was watching this video of a Polly Portable, sounds great and appears to play through the entire record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce22y-k7nP8

Victrolacollector wrote:I was watching this video of a Polly Portable, sounds great and appears to play through the entire record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce22y-k7nP8

The machine might be able to make it through that record, but I can't