What's Your July 4th Phono Project(s)?

[ewok]

How many of you guys spent the Independence Day for a phono project?

I am working on the Brunswick Panatrope portable I purchased on eBay lasy week. Although it was advertized as working and the seller posted a demo video, I simply could not make it work. The spindle position was wrong and caused the turntable touching the auto-brake. I opened the case and to my surprise, the governor only had one weight and spring left. The first problem was solved after I reassembled the gears. The second problem was also solved easily as I have some Brunswick spare parts from my last project.

The Panatrope reproducer looks OK but in my several tests, it had trouble handling soprano high notes. I am still trying to figure out what's wrong.

The followings are the videos I made with the Panatrope portable:

[youtubehq]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7kn9Ms0A6A[/youtubehq]

[youtubehq]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTaRRO6BsXw[/youtubehq]

[Jerry B.]

I brought home three terrific record cabinet from Union but each one needs a bit of work. This one had a broken foot and some loose veneer. It's in the healing process. Jerry Blais

[John Svensson]

Looks like its in traction!

[AZ*]

Just listening to them, I hate to say. The weather is way too hot right now for working in the garage.

[Retrograde]

It's never too hot for a reproducer rebuild