[78-L] While browsing...

[I. Cubillo]

About Astatic cartridges... You may still remember that three or four years
ago, I was presented with a nice Webcor Holiday that you kindly helped to
repair (I still keep the schematics you sent me). The repair work was
completely succesful, and it works fairly well, except for a small thump
caused by the idler wheel.

I performed several gadgets on it, adapting the speed wheels for three
speeds near 78 (at 50 cycles), and also changed the Astatic cartridge for a
different one. That old one was bad, and didn't work well. I already had a
ceramic from a Dual TT, which I've managed to supply with homemade special
78 needles, so I replaced it on the Webcor with great success. It has holes
for 1/2" mount, so I could install it on the Webcor tonearm directly with
the screws.

Iñigo Cubillo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 4:46 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] While browsing...


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "I. Cubillo" <i.cubillo at telefonica.net>
> > Yeah! Colleagues, here I'm swingin' at the sounds of Tommy Dorsey's
"Deed
> > I Do", and "Yearning" on Vi 25815, while I'm browsing thru the records
to
> > see which ones I'll discard for sale. This one, definitely NOT... this
> > will rest at home!
> >
> I'm currently going through my half-vast archives milk box by milk box,
> entering the
> 78 contents of each one in a MS Access database! When I finish (If indeed
I
> LIVE
> that long?!) I will finally have a coherent(-ish) list of my holdings. I
> suspect I will find
> a thousand or two duplicates during this process...these will NOT be
> rarities, but I
> will have to figure out wotinell to DO with them...?!
>
> I also found an old "record player" which I will have to clean, lubricate
> and otherwise
> get running well (including finding a source for Astatic N8-3d needles!)
so
> I can
> finally HEAR my records! Since it has a ceramic cartridge, I can solder an
> RCA
> plug to the cartridge output lead and plug THAT into any "Line In"
> jacks...and then
> record and/or digitize the sounds of my many 78rpm phonorecords!
>
> ...stevenc
>
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