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Grado Lab Wood Tonearm but unknown Turntable

vaathi

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Got this for a good deal... I went to look at Ultra clean Fisher Big Dial 500c with JBL speakers in Console. Seller was asking 800 for the console with the barzilay cabs. I cannot sneak in Barzilay cabs though... I glanced upon this turntable and made a good deal.. I know that wooden tonearm is from Grado lab series. It has Shure M7 cartridge with stylus intact but bent. I cannot figure out what kinda turntable this is. Platter is super heavy and it is run by a single motor. Looks homemade... Please Help me identify the turntable.. I have to add that it works and plays..


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vaathi said:
Got this for a good deal... I went to look at Ultra clean Fisher Big Dial 500c with JBL speakers in Console. Seller was asking 800 for the console with the barzilay cabs. I cannot sneak in Barzilay cabs though... I glanced upon this turntable and made a good deal.. I know that wooden tonearm is from Grado lab series. It has Shure M7 cartridge with stylus intact but bent. I cannot figure out what kinda turntable this is. Platter is super heavy and it is run by a single motor. Looks homemade... Please Help me identify the turntable.. I have to add that it works and plays..


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can you show the underside?
 
marcmorin said:
nice arm, no matter what
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I've been on the hunt (on and off) for a clean, complete example. My Thorens TD-124 originally had one of those mounted on it, but it was removed before I bought the 124 - but I still have the armboard with the appropriate cutouts!

The price for the TD-124 + Grado arm was $148.70 in 1961!

 
Underside of the turntable. Looks like a Custom turntable without any suspension and I cannot decipher the motor. Turntable platter was heavy. Spindle is very thick and it had oil on it. Also I saw a abrasion along the line..
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It looks like a DIY turntable.. I still dont know what it is the model of motor used. I will do some more inspection over the weekend...
 
vaathi said:
It looks like a DIY turntable.. I still dont know what it is the model of motor used. I will do some more inspection over the weekend...
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That looks like a 1/4horse motor............sheeeeeesh!!!!!! somebody missing a blower motor off their HVAC?
 
Sam Cogley said:
A lot of the old hysteresis motors used in some home and most professional turntables were huge. The Ashland used by Rek-O-Kut is about the size of a big can of stewed tomatoes.
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LOL.........yeah, and earlier today I went through another 1.5W Haydon motor, it's the size of a 50cent piece
 
I knew that platter mat and motor looked familiar! You have a Japanese-made Realistic Hysteresis turntable (or a very similar table from the same manufacturer) that has been inexplicably gutted and rebuilt on a plywood board.
 
beatcomber said:
I've been on the hunt (on and off) for a clean, complete example. My Thorens TD-124 originally had one of those mounted on it, but it was removed before I bought the 124 - but I still have the armboard with the appropriate cutouts!

The price for the TD-124 + Grado arm was $148.70 in 1961!

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@beatcomber You can have shot in this auction if you want to make the turntable relive its glory days...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/18206288638...3&exe=13905&ext=35588&sojTags=exe=exe,ext=ext
 
beatcomber said:
Aw poop, it's busted!
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broken.......I didn't see no "Cadillac bumper bullets" on it nowhere........and I went back to look when ya mentioned busted.
Our 5th grade teacher explained the difference between busted and broken......'cause that lady was indeed busted.

Marc(certainly made our day)Morin
 
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