I recently purchased two Victor II phonographs, each purportedly untouched for decades. Yet both had the reproducers facing the wrong direction, and both had replaced flanges, very interesting ones at that. One tonearm had been exchanged for a Victrola IV tonearm with a piece of metal tubing inserted into the base that would engage with the bracket. The other tonearm simply had the U-tube replaced backwards. The interesting thing about both was the precision metal flanges that had been made to replace the rubber ones, Apparently both were made by machinists. One is brass and has a friction fit to the tonearm, one is aluminum and was routed out so that the brass bayonet fitting would sit inside, and further it was enhanced with a wire compression washer, ostensibly to make it stay in place and not turn. Pics are available below: http://s197.photobucket.com/albums/aa39/john9ten/Exhibition%20Flanges/ What I would like is for you guys to tell me if you've ever had an exhibition with an unusual item for a flange. I'd like to write it up as an article for the GSPS newsletter. If you contribute something I will send you a copy. Thanks John Robles _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
