[BC] Turntable arms

[George Nicholas]

The Shure M44-7 survived the Gray tone arms just fine.

Your records, on the other hand, did not.

Arista and Polygrams were the first to go.  One back cue and they were done.

gn (showing my age)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Wood" <richwood at pobox.com>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 3:15 PM
Subject: RE: [BC] Turntable arms


>
> ------ At 02:45 PM 7/18/2005, Jerry Mathis wrote: -------
>
> >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.
>
> God intended Gray tone arms to be installed on Gates 16" turntables
> with GE cartridges. I'm surprised a Shure M44-7 would survive
> installation in a Gray. The GE was built like a tank and would
> support the nickels and quarters we'd use for precise tracking. The
> Grays I worked with could withstand the vibration of two Maggies and
> the lock lever on the Spotmaster cart machine. It would only skip
> when the RCA 44-BX pulled the ceiling mount down (the ceiling came
> with it). The Altec 639Bs would cause a skip when the newsman tipped
> one over and broke his arm. I think the transmitter was microphonic
> enough to pick up his screams of pain.
>
> The Western Electric 443A-1 1Kw transmitter could actually pass the
> rumble and bangs of this delicate equipment. It even survived a
> direct lightning strike at its base through a window. The UPI
> Teletype machine  paper caught fire right next to it. We were at 1570
> and would disappear down the street at sunset. They destroyed its
> charm when it was increased to 50Kw and moved to 640. WDEW,
> Westfield, MA. Slogan was W-Dew. It's now held captive by Clear
> Channel. It's the only 50K in Western MA.
>
> Rich
>
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