The search is over.
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2021 1:38 pm
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234197228200
This grey HMV102 appeared on eBay yesterday with a starting price of £148, and I purchased it with an offer of rather more than double that amount. It completes my collection of the 102 colours and I can hardly wait for it to arrive.
I have a good chrome No.16 soundbox, a turntable circlip, a better winding handle and probably a better carrying handle all waiting to be fitted. All I have to is source some suitable felt for the turntable and record tray, and fabricate replacements for the rubber "feet" which have disappeared.
With the recent purchase of an Edison Opera my bucket list is now empty, but that will not prevent me from acquiring more machines I didn't know I wanted, such as my basket case HMV511 project. There is always room for one more, or so I tell my wife.
This grey HMV102 appeared on eBay yesterday with a starting price of £148, and I purchased it with an offer of rather more than double that amount. It completes my collection of the 102 colours and I can hardly wait for it to arrive.
I have a good chrome No.16 soundbox, a turntable circlip, a better winding handle and probably a better carrying handle all waiting to be fitted. All I have to is source some suitable felt for the turntable and record tray, and fabricate replacements for the rubber "feet" which have disappeared.
With the recent purchase of an Edison Opera my bucket list is now empty, but that will not prevent me from acquiring more machines I didn't know I wanted, such as my basket case HMV511 project. There is always room for one more, or so I tell my wife.