You guys are lucky, I promised myself I'd never do record players.

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/east-brisbane/antiques/edison-a100-diamond-disc-phonograph/1038611883.

Hard to resist the product of such a towering figure if you have the wherewithal and the room.

Where's the sense of adventure? I hate some of the turntables and I have had to service one recently, as like so many, the grease is drying out & the one in the Radio Clubs Radiogram is having a Hissy Fit & won't latch.

Its got to come out. Garrard 120/4H. The other one was a Grundig branded Philips & the motor 110V to make life easy had seized the bearings they were that dry.

I have actually played with the works of one of those Edison's. Grease soap drys out in them & stops them too.

Do note the spring needs lubrication in that type, or it will break.

If you were referring to me with "Where's the sense of adventure"..
it's more of a budget and space thing.
If I got into it I might go nuts,
but were I to look into phono as well, this would be the one for sure.

Despite my thinking Edison was a pig.. got to credit him for the phonograph.

If it were a tad closer, I'd probably grab that.
Although I do have a 1930 Rexonola gramophone and a 1906 red Gem phono...

I fix; So wear a lot of items within radio's & radiograms. Ignoring the head shell, it is more a question of time than resources, cleaning the mechanicals of a turntable.

As I said I don't like some turntables As the design is ridiculous in some and when, like a few, I have had to fix, when the Monkey has been in there, you can have a nightmare.

Marc

Were I inclined, I don't think that one would have to be functional,
but a bit of a disaster using paint stripper in my bathtub
yesterday has put me out of "antiquing" for a while!

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Came up ok though

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If I ever found a genuine Tesla artefact I'd be all the way there!

And it's gone!.. I knew it would be ;)
I'll bet I sold it for him, and should ask for commission!

And if its plastic plumbing; What did the Methylene Chloride do to it?

Can't do that here, I built the house with a shower only. Saves a huge amount of space & that means you can swing a cat and turn a wheelchair in there easily.

Anything being repaired here does not go into the house, even the computer is not in the house.

One shed engineering one shed, books & electrical repairs, photo stuff & farm office.

If I am going to de-grease a turntable ... engineering.

Marc

One shed engineering one shed, books & electrical repairs, photo stuff

That's what I'm trying to achieve.

For me, it's a grey area. Inside desk less grey, downstairs workshop more grey. Kitchen out of bounds, laundry sink available for non-smelly scrub-ups. Breakfast table available when wife absent or asleep.

Maven

Never had the wife problem, but the previous shed had a darkroom with around an 8 foot wet bench and it's own HW.

You could bath the animals (cat, dog, chooks, kids) car parts & radios etc. in there. I do miss it albeit, the shearing shed has a shower.

Marc

That is one of the advantages of single life, I use my kitchen, the tea table, the floor in front of the telly and the balcony for the various restoration tasks and I get to clean up when I want to. Ahhh well, nothing lasts forever though so I will enjoy it whilst I can.

It's a bummer.. $2000 odd to have a $130 acrylic bathtub installed, or do it myself, but it would still have to pass rental inspection like it never happened.

I figure I have little to lose giving it a shot.
Just about anything I do is a head start for the installer if I do a poor job.