Sorry, both of these members will be deleted for not following the rules.

"Tn12713", you didn't learn the FIRST time. If you don't post your location with your username, you have no chance of ever posting on this forum. "newlogica" is in the same boat. You two have until "dark thirty" this evening to fix it, or your membership will be deleted...

All the Magnavox cabinets I have use "minus head" screws in the cabinet. I replaced certain of them as I restored the cabinet because I could get more "squeeze" on a Phillips head screw.

Columbia introduced their 12" long-playing 33 1/3 rpm record in 1948. RCA had to come up with a system to compete with it, so their solution was the 7", 45 rpm record. The theory was that the 45 changer could handle 10 records, with two tracks per record, for a total of 20 tracks. Columbia...

I had not seen this video before. I learned a lot, so I thought maybe you guys would enjoy it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBgC7A2C4ZY

It may have been better to have said "I HAD a friend...." His name was Bob and he worked for me for a time. He passed a couple of years ago. Kinda hard to imagine him gone. He was a year older than I am, and was a true music lover. His thing was steel guitars and the artists who played the...

If the needle is original, there will be a little "GE" symbol on the end of the needle arm, where you flip the needle, on the end of the LP side, on the little round ball on the end of the arm.

The good news is that they lowered the price. I paid $32 for mine at AES when I redid those record player cabinets. The downside is that water-borne contact cement not only works better, but it's also cheaper. Their ad says this glue won't shrink Tolex. It will the white, particularly the lower-grad...

We had a lull in the spambots for about a week. Now, the numbers are creeping back up. I haven't heard from Mark lately. He is allegedly working on reformatting the forum, but I haven't seen anything yet. I know he is swamped keeping the spambots off his server and putting out fires related to same....

I forgot to mention that the entire electronics in a GE are in one piece...... ;) ;) Typically, there is sufficient length on the wiring to pull it out all together and have room to wallow everything around. I hope you have better luck with your Garrard changer than I did. Mine is/was possessed. :oo...

I don't know who made those filter caps, whether it was GE or somebody else, but they are horrible. I realize they weren't designed to run for 60+ years. I've never had a set of those caps that were not shorted when I got them or shorted soon after they were powered up. If the previous owner said it...

I STRONGLY recommend you replace the filter cap before you plug it in. If it's not already shorted, it soon will be, which is hard on the power transformer. Nice score! Good luck....

I sure have been enjoying some of my music today. The only thing I know that could possibly have made such a difference in performance is that cathode follower. Part of its job is impedence matching in the audio circuit. To be fair, it didn't even test THAT weak. One triode was weaker than the other...

The GE C 100 cartridge may arguably be considered one of the better ceramic cartridges. They track well in the 5 gram range. I put a diamond needle in the LP side and a sapphire LP needle in the 78 side. I use the sapphire needle to play 45 rpm records. Good luck!!

For the benefit of those of us who know zipkus about solid state circuits, Chris, would you share your thoughts on the suggestions you just posted? My guess is those caps are used for coupling caps. Am I even close?

No, I can't say that it will damage drywall. I'd say it is more of the "firm and pleasant" type. I need to put the back on the cabinet, but I'm afraid to touch it.

All I did was to replace a 470K ohm resistor in the eye tube. I did a good visual pulled the tube and tested them
I replaced the 12AX7 cathode follower tube. I lured the phono motor. How did any of that fix anything....

Sometimes even a blind hog will find an acorn.. I have no idea what it might be, but whatever I did to the tuner when I had it out fixed the wimpy bass this thing was suffering from. It sounds incredible.... :D :D I have been organizing my CD collection, and it sounds good playing them.. What happen...

When we lived in Missouri, there was a little fleapower FM station in town, 97.1 "The Lake". I called them 97.1 "The Ad" because they played canned top-40 country with 42 minutes of commercials per hour. The same music and the same ads, day after day, year after year. They hired ...

Two problems with "El Paso". It was almost ten minutes long and it was massively over-played. My dad like it, too, so we played it ad nauseum at his barn dances. Almost every country artist covered that song, for years.