[78-L] Got the 78 system kludged together...

[Royal Pemberton]

Frankie Carle.  Good luck with the tone arm!

On 6/17/09, Mike Shaffer <mkshffr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> so now I need to dig out grandpa's records. The head shell on the GE tone
> arm on my TD-124 was the wrong size for my newly acquired RPX triple play so
> I had to kludge something out of a fiberboard'ish electrical switch box and
> cobble some wiring together out of an old console TT but oddly enough it
> worked surprisingly well. Some of my wife's dad's records were accessible so
> I grabbed a couple of those for a spin. They looked horrible but
> sounded unbelievably good. Spun some Benny Goodman, Frankie Carne (sp?) and
> a couple of others.
> My ghetto head shell was a bit on the light side so I was only able to get
> about 5 grams. It sounded fine but sometimes it skittered about a bit in the
> runout grooves so I suspect it would like another gram or two.
> But we proved that the cart works so I can start looking for a proper head
> shell. Now go t to get the tube amp finished. :)
> mike
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