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The Fisher Lincoln Automatic Turntable

OvenMaster said:
I just watched that video. Did my eyes play tricks on me, or did that device actually just DROP the record at 0:03?! I wonder how many records that thing smashed in operation. :tears:
Tom
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Yes it did drop it. That isnt as bad as this one. It actually grabs the spinning record with a finger thing and throws it off to the side of the TT. :yikes:
 
It's a standard turntable, so you plug it into a phono input.

Fisher didn't actually manufacture them. They were built by Lincoln Industrial Corporation, a company that made pumps and fittings. They were trying to branch out into new areas. Disaster for them.

I just got an email from the guy with the video web page!!
 
You should be able to get the tubing just about anywhere... problem is, hooking it up correctly! :scratch2:

Hopefully you'll get the answers that you need! :yes: :thmbsp:

Scott
 
The unit was designed and built at Lincoln Engineering in the mid 50s In St louis Mo. ...I know i worked there...They were unsuccessful in selling them so lined up Avery Fisher to handle sales...There where many variations made...Lincoln eng. makes all the service station auto lubrication systems plus all the balljoint fittings for your autos...Next time you get your car lubed look at the equipment at the service station chances are its either Lincoln or Alemite...Yes that changer worked fine but that turntable a tone arm wouldnt pass as a quality product today.....Seeburgh jukebox,s made a better unit than that....I was a pimple faced kid at that time at Lincoln.. But I wouldnt buy it ,,,I had a Guarred changer that i thought was light years ahead of that contraption....All the engineers that worked on that changer are gone now...Dan Riesert,, Fox,, and other key designers. That was a nice folksy place to work... The company was sold to a Corp that designed machinery for manufacturing auto tires,,McNiel eng. Some where down stairs i may have a service manule...Finding it would be diffacult with tons of files to wade through.
 
Hi Maron!

Great to hear from somebody who was actually there!!

I found out a lot about Lincoln through this Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Industrial_Corporation

I'd love to hear more of your thoughts and recollections about the history of the turntable. And, if you actually do have any files, manuals, etc., I would love to see them. If you want to keep them I'd be happy to make scans and then return them to you at my shipping expense. If they're buried in your "archives", I'm in no hurry. Whenever you get the time.

Tia,
Clay

ps...feel free to email me directly.
 
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It would be pretty cool if you could get that old beast working again just for the fun of it! :yes:

If you start a separate thread on the restoration, let me know! :thmbsp:

Scott
 
Funny, somehow this has a heritage connection to Victor's Auxetophone, which was an air-powered amplified Victor Victrola used in large halls and dance houses in the 1920s. Some models also had air-powered record changers. I have a Victor catalog at home and will try to remember to scan some images.

WOW!--Maron and Clay, VERY cool! This interaction is as thrilling as when I learned that my next door neighbor worked at the Victor Talking Machine factory when she was a girl (I noticed an old Victrola VV-10 in their house many years ago, and I have one too)...she looked at my Victor and was able to tell me where in the factory it was made and who likely worked on it given its age (I have a book on the history of the Victor company). Anyway, not to hijack at all...it's always fascinating to communicate with the people that actually MADE this equipment!

Very cool!
 
Fat chance of finding the service manual....Three years ago some one called from the Navy museum up east wanting permission to use my artwork when i worked a Universal Match ,,UniDynamics on Special rocket launchers,,,ASROCK and Terrior ,,,Anti Submarine rockets...I finally found all the rest of the artwork and manuals and sent them on... Maybe i,ll trip over the Lincoln stuff... I remember at Lincoln,, Alex Fox (Pres.) would drop by our Eng. office next to the factory.. He would place his pipe and tobacco on a shelf next to the door...When he whent into the factory some body would place cut up rubber bands in the tobacco pouch....He would reciprocate by spitting tobacco juice on our office walls...Alex was a neat guy he even let me drive his Porche,,, Lincoln Eng. was full of cutups. I could go on about the Christmas parties..One of the gals in the office i still keep in touch with,,, She married into the DIESEL family,, Yes the real designers of the DIESEL ENGINE used through out the world. (Rudy Diesel).... But the Lincoln Changer was a unique side product.. But the prime products were the Lubrication gear.
 
spartanmanor said:
Where did you find this turntable? I love stuff like this, very Rube Goldberg.
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Believe it or not, on eBay a while back. The seller had a high reserve, which wasn't met. We emailed back and forth, and agreed on a price. That's the good news.

The bad news is that the turntable, which probably weighs at least 40 pounds, was shipped packed in crumpled newspaper. The box arrived essentially round. I'll never know what fell out through the holes.
 
jcmjrt said:
Know about? Yes. Remember? No.
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My sentiments exactly. :D My boss has one of the old hand-crank console phonographs (completely acoustic, doesn't even plug in!) that was designed to work with those needles. It sounds so cool. I picture old silent films every time it's playing. :music:
 
I bought a Fisher-Lincoln TT at a Florida Antique Wireless Guild (FAWG) meet in Orlando, about 12 years ago. I took it to Durham NC, when I moved there to work for VAC (Valve Amplification Co.) on their Marantz replica project. While there, I sold it to Al Pugliese, AKA "Fisherdoc". He Drove down from Staten Island to pick it up. I would have hated to ship it. Included was a Service Manual and a few spare parts. Before he picked up, I made a copy of the manual, which I have now sold and mailed to "Fisherdude", so he is now the repository of all there is to know about the model 70 :)
 
I got a nice Fisher KM60 and KX200 set a while back from a sale. The widow had kept her husbands stuff down in the basement family room, and she was getting too old to keep the place. I bought the whole shebang from her, which she was happy about as everybody offered her a couple of bucks for just the amp, and a couple of guys had tried to swipe the tubes. In short, when I picked it up she had pulled all the paperwork together as well - he kept it all - and he had the Fisher brochures and stuff on the Lincoln Fisher turntable. Fisher seemed to have tried to move these things. I remember being amazed as I had never seen one before reading this stuff. Cool that you got ahold of one. Sounds like you may need to hit the hardware store to improvise.
 
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