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Anyone recognize this arm?

mhardy6647

mhardy6647

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Found this wooden-wand tonearm at the dump today. Headshell is cast aluminum. There's a Stanton 500 DJ cartridge :-O mounted in it.

One is most curious as to what it might be. Perhaps someone recognizes the runic logo on the arm?

First time in 15 years of dump-diving I've found a standalone tonearm.

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Reminds me of the old Grado (or Grace) arms we used on our Gates TT's in the radio station during the early 70's.
 
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I've only seen Grados that were all-wood (headshell too). Grace, maybe. Maybe a Gray?

I dunno about that logo on the arm...
 
I'm with Celt on this one, looks almost identical to the arms on our Gates TT's at the little AM station I worked at for several years.

As I recollect, they were a great little tonearm, very silent and not easily perturbed. I don't recognize the logo either - Too bad you didn't find a whole chain drive broadcast TT! Still a very nice piece to bring home.
 
These are like the Gates we had in the original control room @ K105. I'm pretty sure those arms were made by Gray. Still waiting on a reply from my brother who was chief engineer there.

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It's an ADC/Pritchard, I have had one for years. Mine came to on a Gates 16" TT but they were also made in a 12" version for home use.

Clyde
 
Before Grey sold that arm it was marketed by ADC and made by Pritchard. I will locate and scan an ad from around 1960 and post it later.

Clyde
 
Been on vacation for a week, or would have been at the front of the line with my hand up yelling 'I know! I know!'. Its a Micro Track, one of the standard radio station arms. Micro Track and Gray seem to have been the same company. It is not an ADC -- the Pritchard arm had a tapered tubular basswood arm with gimbelled bearings, antiskate, and a removeable headshell.
 
Holst has got it.

Had these in a broadcast studio I used to work in. You should see the rubber I could leave by doing a neutral drop into 45! yeeee hawwww!
 
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