[78-L] Durium Hit of the Week 'Hoard'

[Julian Vein]

David Lennick wrote:
  > The most difficult Durium product to flatten was one of those 4-inch 
discs,
> probably the Chevrolet ad. I finally took an old rubber reel holder from a 
> reel-to-reel recorder (Ampex used them but Radio Shack made reasonable 
> facsimiles) and trimmed it down to less than "label" size where it wouldn't 
> interfere with the stylus base. Those things weren't so difficult to play with 
> steel needles, but modern equipment doesn't like to deal with bumps and raised 
> matrix numbers and things of that ilk.
> 
> dl
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Wasn't there a hi-fi turntable in the 80s that had a vacuum suction pad 
to hold LPs flat?

      Julian Vein


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