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No Name Arm - Anyone recognize it?

drspiff

drspiff

Fisher "T" Aficionado
I have a No Name tone arm mounted on a plate. I have no idea where it came from or anything else about it. It seems like a reasonable quality piece, but I need some answers.

The headshell is removable and has adjustment for overhang.
The mounting board has a bevel on the record side, suggesting it is a factory mount and removed from some TT.
The arm is very smooth and appears to be well made.
There is a cable to pull to raise the tone arm.

Anything else that help to ID this tone arm?
 

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Looks like a Thorens arm to me.
Not an expert; maybe a TP-16?

http://www.thorens-info.de/html/tonarme.html
tp16_basis.jpg


Most of the Thorens arms I "know" had removable wands rather than removable headshells, though.
 
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Yes, that is a TP-16. Stock arm on many Thorens models such as the TD-160. Looks like the headshell to the arm on the Thorens TD-150. I forget what the model number is for that. Not sure if those headshells are interchangeable for appropriate alignment.
 
The headshell seems to be a stranger to that arm though. It has no offset angle.

John
 
Head shell is from a TP-13 or 13A (Krugal?)that came on the TD-150 I'm thinking. It is the wrong head shell for that particular arm.
 
Looks like the TD-150's armboard and headshell with the TD-160's TP16 arm. Guessing someone had some leftover Thorens bits and winged this together.
 
Thorens TD150 turntable with TP13A tonearm and B808-110 head-shell: This is good.:thmbsp:

thorens_td-150_mkii_turntable_1.jpg





Thorens TD160 turntable with TP16 tonearm and TP60 head-shell: This is good.:thmbsp:

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The picture in the OP has a TP16 arm with a B808-110 head-shell. This is NOT good. :nono:
 
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Maybe a TD160 Super. The arm is a transplant, the lift knob is missing so the lift will not work. The arm is the same as my TD160 has and definitely the wrong headshell. The headshell looks to be the same as used on the TD150 stock arm. Both types of headshells are rare as hens' teeth and not inexpensive

I recently turned down an offer to buy my nos 160 headshell though the offered amount floored me.
 
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