nickdinatale
Active Member
Recently became the owner of this by way of a trade with @musiqlovr. All I can say is that it was worth the 14 hour round trip. I've been incredibly interested in broadcast turntables for a while now, but never dreamed of owning something like this.
Since getting it home a few weeks ago, I've spent a good chunk of time just cleaning it up. The top surface came covered in an ugly linoleum that a previous owner had applied, and underneath that (to my surprise) was a very 60s-looking Space Age teal linoleum. Under that, I was delighted to find the original RCA gray paint, however beat up it is. It seems to have been pretty well taken care of throughout its life, aside from the numerous holes drilled for different tonearms. The tonearm that came with it is a Gray 108, which, after quite a bit of tweaking, I finally have tracking correctly. (Numbers like 3-4+ grams of tracking weight still scare me).
My plan as of right now is to eventually build a new front door for it and get an RCA meatball. I plan to also do my best to match the original paint and repaint it after I fix some of the splitting that's happening on the side panels.
If anyone else is using one of these, I'd love to see photos, or hear your experience. Otherwise, I'll update this thread as I work on it.
First photo is from the night I got it home, other three were from today:
Since getting it home a few weeks ago, I've spent a good chunk of time just cleaning it up. The top surface came covered in an ugly linoleum that a previous owner had applied, and underneath that (to my surprise) was a very 60s-looking Space Age teal linoleum. Under that, I was delighted to find the original RCA gray paint, however beat up it is. It seems to have been pretty well taken care of throughout its life, aside from the numerous holes drilled for different tonearms. The tonearm that came with it is a Gray 108, which, after quite a bit of tweaking, I finally have tracking correctly. (Numbers like 3-4+ grams of tracking weight still scare me).
My plan as of right now is to eventually build a new front door for it and get an RCA meatball. I plan to also do my best to match the original paint and repaint it after I fix some of the splitting that's happening on the side panels.
If anyone else is using one of these, I'd love to see photos, or hear your experience. Otherwise, I'll update this thread as I work on it.
First photo is from the night I got it home, other three were from today:
