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Wanted: Concert Reproducer and Motorboard Latch for a Victor E with Rigid Tonearm. Please let me know what you have and price. Thanks

Take a look at my post from a while back. I still have the Rigid Concert available.
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=41111&hilit=reproducer


Ken

Thanks Ken. That is gorgeous. Not in my budget, unfortunately.

Crank found. Still looking for concert reproducer and motorboard latch. Thanks.
Mike

Still looking. Thanks.
Mike

That Rigid Concert is a needle in a haystack to try to find, like the brass horn elbow... you might modify a normal concert or repro concert to fit. The mounting holes are different from an Exhibition by half a hole or so... Is the motorboard latch different from a normal Victor E or similar to any other Victor machine?

Curt A wrote:That Rigid Concert is a needle in a haystack to try to find, like the brass horn elbow... you might modify a normal concert or repro concert to fit. The mounting holes are different from an Exhibition by half a hole or so... Is the motorboard latch different from a normal Victor E or similar to any other Victor machine?

The motorboard latch I believe is the same as a normal Victor E. As for the reproducer, does any still reproduce the taper arm one. I wouldn't feel bad about adapting a repro.

I have found the motorboard latch. Still looking for the proper reproducer. I would even accept a reproduction concert reproducer. I have a line on an affordable taper arm concert reproducer, but I would hate to have to adapt a good original reproducer.

"I have a line on an affordable taper arm concert reproducer, but I would hate to have to adapt a good original reproducer."

Since the taper arm concert is loose and not parting out some other machine, I don't see a problem with modifying it to complete a rarer Rigid arm machine. Otherwise you can pay the price for a correct one, which is even rarer to find loose. The way I modified one was to find two brass screws of the correct size to screw into the existing holes. Epoxy them in so they won't come out, then cut them off and file them flush with the body of the reproducer. Mark new holes with the correct spacing for the Rigid "flip piece" on the tonearm and then drill and tap new holes. This worked for me on a Rigid arm machine that I owned years ago with the missing Concert reproducer. If I remember correctly, the spacing on the Rigid holes are approx. ½ of a hole different from the taper arm holes, but I might be wrong.

You really should buy the Rigid Arm Concert reproducer that Ken Brekke still has... It adds value to your machine. If not, you will have an extremely hard time finding another original that is not attached to a machine...

I still have an original one available. viewtopic.php?f=9&t=41111&hilit=reproducer
Ken