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Old 18th Sep 2018, 8:50 am   #46
mark_in_manc
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Default Re: A crapophone fix?

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Originally Posted by firtree View Post
This of course provided The Husband lets go of his dream of converting it into a record player. He's already started measuring and sketching...I married MacGyver.
If your husband really wants to go for it...it strikes me that if I wanted to mount the horn-arm-soundbox on bearings, and if I wanted to start from somewhere where most of the work was done already, I'd use the hub-bearings-spindle from a scrap pushbike wheel. I think having a gramophone obviously made of parts of a recycled bicycle would be quite cool. And all in the cause of hi(gher) fi
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