Anyone here in to vinyl? Part II

[63getelevision]

Hi Mark, I had been getting my Micromatic needles successfully through Radio Shack, NOS, and have at least 3 in stock, but like everything else, don't know where! I may be able to get that cartridge through them, I need at least two, I swiped some out of my unused units. I found one on the internet without the long metal tab, they said you have to put one out of the bad cartridge into the good one! I don't think so. I know ceramics don't have the outputs of magnetics, but records don't have anywhere near the volume of the radio and CDs. I want a GE cartridge for my '63 GE stereo, also.

 

[bundtboy]

'51 Philco.

Mark, I think that's a 51 Philco.

63GE - Haven't we seen that photo before - more than once? I have noticed that you do tend to post the same photos over and over again. It'd be more interesting to me if we could continue to move forward with this thread, rather than keep seeing the same machines over and over again - particularly when they are not even working machines, or nicely displayed.

Thanks.

Bob

 

[63getelevision]

This is a different picture of the same set.

 

[63getelevision]

Just read your "private email". Thank you for humiliating me.

 

[bundtboy]

boo hoo

Would you like me to make it public?

Let's keep what's private private, shall we?

At least I had THAT much courtesy. Thanks for dragging it back on line.

You're welcome.

Bob

 

[washabear]

fonografmaniac, I loved that video! Thanks! That is a BSR 500 I think, yes? I see that it has an ADC cartridge, which were standard on some BSRs inasmuch as BSR owned ADC.

I had a BSR 510, which was similar to yours except that it came with a Shure cartridge. I wish I still had it.

Thanks again for the video!

 

[fonografmaniac]

here's something that some of yall may remember from elementary school

 

[jasonl]

Linear Tracking

Here's a Technics SL-12. Belongs to Helen's dad. One channel is out but it does work and track the record like it should.

 

[bundtboy]

antiqued green?

No, it is not.

It's blue with 40years of nicotine and filth on it.

Try some 409 and a cotton rag, and see what color it is.
Look at the interior.

Dude - it's blue, with a thick coating of filth.

It probably stinks too.

Use some of all that extra time you seem to have to do some house cleaning.

antiqued green - sheesh.

b

 

[paulg]

Zenith-Philco changers

Zenith and Philco tone arms sometimes look the same, but this is purely by accident.
While VM was making changers mechs for both, Zenith and Philco had their own engineering teams trying to make super-performance tone arms (to be added to the VM base mechanism).
Eventually both Zenith and Philco came to market with their respective tone-arms to the disappointment that their competitor did the same thing!
This is because VM (a company with an extremely high business ethic), never would divulge what one company was doing to any other company.
I got this info from "the top". You'll find older Zenith changers were made by at least Zenith, VM and Maestro. Zenith did make changers in Chicago long ago. I know at least the 1960 console with flip-up 45 adaptor was a Maestro changer. Maestro was a company developed by a VM defector who thought he could make a cheaper, better changer. I think Maestro died in the early 1970s.

 

[fonografmaniac]

1st time seeing this type record changer used in a 1960's magnavox record player. itz a vm (voice of music) rebadged magnavox.

http://cgi.ebay.com/MAGNAVOX-SOLID-...ryZ48649QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[lightedcontrols]

hmmmm.....

...for some reason, that changer does not look original to that player. The description states that there are lots of things in that player that are not original.

 

[fonografmaniac]

well, i can see a magnavox badge on the changer just like the one you see on a magnavox micromatic changer and that vm changer is from the 60's. only thing that is not original is the speaker. i'm guessing the some of the low-end or inexpensive magnavox uses non-collaro changers.