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To me, this does not appear to be a brass reproducer. I see what appears to be grey spots where the finish has worn or chipped away on the black back side. That is the typical color of aged pot metal.

startgroove wrote:To me, this does not appear to be a brass reproducer. I see what appears to be grey spots where the finish has worn or chipped away on the black back side. That is the typical color of aged pot metal.

The spanner ring is the only part where the grey spots are. Then rest of the back has the brown (brass) metal showing through the chipped paint. I've seen a couple brass Orthos that seem to have a pot metal spanner ring. I think Ron Sitko carries new spanner rings, so this should be an easy fix.

The tell tale signs of the brass version are the 7 teardrop openings, the black bearing block, the indented print on the back, and the rectangular slit in the faceplate below the needlebar. These are pretty different from the characteristics of the pot metal versions. (9 teardrop openings, plated/painted bearing block, raised print, and circular slit in the faceplate below the needlebar).

I did notice that the diaphragm on the bottom right looks like there are a bunch of holes poked in it.

Oceangoer1 wrote:

startgroove wrote:To me, this does not appear to be a brass reproducer. I see what appears to be grey spots where the finish has worn or chipped away on the black back side. That is the typical color of aged pot metal.

The spanner ring is the only part where the grey spots are. Then rest of the back has the brown (brass) metal showing through the chipped paint. I've seen a couple brass Orthos that seem to have a pot metal spanner ring. I think Ron Sitko carries new spanner rings, so this should be an easy fix.

The tell tale signs of the brass version are the 7 teardrop openings, the black bearing block, the indented print on the back, and the rectangular slit in the faceplate below the needlebar. These are pretty different from the characteristics of the pot metal versions. (9 teardrop openings, plated/painted bearing block, raised print, and circular slit in the faceplate below the needlebar).

I tried that once with one I had, and could NOT get Ron's ring to thread. It might have been my reproducer, but I finally gave the housing to someone else and they couldn't get it to work either. Maybe the one I had was a fluke, and there are guys that have been through this before, and maybe I wasn't doing something right. But I wouldn't want to get a lot of money tied up into it without knowing for sure. My best sounding one of those is a pot metal one. And I've had 8-10 brass one's and always ended up keeping this pot metal one and letting the brass one's go. I've had it for about 35 years now and it doesn't seem to be getting any worse. Too bad they didn't come up with pot metal in the 1960's. Haha!

I'd love to find a brass reproducer for my Credenza,but not now.Mine's a 1926 model.I wonder if it originally had a brass reproducer?edisonplayer

EarlH wrote:

Oceangoer1 wrote:

startgroove wrote:To me, this does not appear to be a brass reproducer. I see what appears to be grey spots where the finish has worn or chipped away on the black back side. That is the typical color of aged pot metal.

The spanner ring is the only part where the grey spots are. Then rest of the back has the brown (brass) metal showing through the chipped paint. I've seen a couple brass Orthos that seem to have a pot metal spanner ring. I think Ron Sitko carries new spanner rings, so this should be an easy fix.

The tell tale signs of the brass version are the 7 teardrop openings, the black bearing block, the indented print on the back, and the rectangular slit in the faceplate below the needlebar. These are pretty different from the characteristics of the pot metal versions. (9 teardrop openings, plated/painted bearing block, raised print, and circular slit in the faceplate below the needlebar).

I tried that once with one I had, and could NOT get Ron's ring to thread. It might have been my reproducer, but I finally gave the housing to someone else and they couldn't get it to work either. Maybe the one I had was a fluke, and there are guys that have been through this before, and maybe I wasn't doing something right. But I wouldn't want to get a lot of money tied up into it without knowing for sure. My best sounding one of those is a pot metal one. And I've had 8-10 brass one's and always ended up keeping this pot metal one and letting the brass one's go. I've had it for about 35 years now and it doesn't seem to be getting any worse. Too bad they didn't come up with pot metal in the 1960's. Haha!

I'm not sure which version of the ring Ron sells, or what kind of Orthophonic reproducer you were trying to install it in. The pot metal reproducers use a coarser thread than the brass ones. Not interchangeable.