[BC] Turntable arms

[Jerry Mathis]

Ah, fond memories of my first radio Engineering job. I remember those Gray 
tone arms. I hated them, too, because if you had a warped record, they would 
bounce and skip all over the place. We had the Shure M44-7 cartridges and 
needles, though. Being at the time of the stripe that everything should be 
as originally designed, I found some of the "viscus (sp?) damping fluid" and 
installed it in the cup, and played with the adjustment.

Wow! That tonearm was **wonderful**. Tracked even warped records properly. 
We had MUCH less trouble with bounces and skips with that viscus damping 
fluid installed. I like it much better that the Microtrash tonearm on the 
other turntable. You remember that one, the long skinny wooden toothpick 
with the metal shell on the end? If you didn't handle it carefully, the head 
support ridges carved into the toothpick would break off, then you could 
NEVER keep the cartridge head on properly.



Jerry Mathis
Clear Channel Radio, Tupelo & Meridian MS




>From: "david at translantech.com" <reader at oldradio.com>
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>CC: David Reaves <david at translantech.com>
>Subject: [BC] Turntable arms
>Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:58:49 -0700
>
>On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:00:03, Phil Alexander wrote:
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><snip>
>>All the RCA's I knew had the speed adapter kits and light weight tone arms 
>>with the little red, green and blue plug-in cartridges about the size of a 
>>postage stamp. Those were easy to work with because you could see the 
>>stylus at the front - - unlike the GE VR-II where it was hidden back 
>>underneath. I hated those GE's, especially when they were mounted
>>in viscous damped Gray tone arms. <g>
>></snip>
> >>
>
>
>I remember them being referred to as "vicious-damped."
>
>
>Kind Regards,
>David
>
>
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