[78-L] HOW to Play HOWs

[David Lennick]

Taylor Bowie wrote:
>> The biggest problem with HOW's is keeping them flat while playing them!
>> I used to use a VERY large hex nut (probably a lug nut for an "18-
>> wheeler?!) which weighed a couple of pounds; I could put my TT's
>> centre spindle through the hole in the nut and its weight would keep
>> the record flat!
>>
>> Steven C. Barr
> 
> 
> That is a good system.  I also found that you can clamp a clothes pin to the 
> spindle and this will keep most of  'em flat.
> 
> Taylor
> 

One difficult one was a 4-inch Durium advertising record..decidedly un-flat and 
recorded well into the center. I found an old rubber clamp from a domestic 
Ampex tape recorder and cut it down enough so that it would still have suction 
and hold the disc down. Worked fine.

dl