[Techman]

Yes, it's a Fidelity.

It's certainly been really mangled by someone who didn't know what they were doing - wires pulled off the cartridge and pulled out of the arm with the flag on the cartridge bent right round!

Don't attempt to solder directly to the cartridge tags as any heat whatsoever will kill it, that's if it isn't dead already - most of them are by now and it's non-stereo compatible so can only be used for playing old 60s singles.

The bad news is that there's no stereo compatible high output cartridge (which this player needs) available to buy now, as they went out of production in the early 70s.

As has already been said, this player has a 'live chassis' with absolutely no pickup isolation and one of those two pickup wires connects directly to the mains input, so depending on which way the mains plug has been wired up you could be be electrocuted if you touch one of them!

Having just said all that, it's not all bad. You can fit a medium output stereo compatible cartridge, but you'll have to crank the volume control all the way up for normal listening volume on some records. There's very little to go wrong with these players once working and they actually perform and sound a lot better than you might think for something in what's basically a cardboard box - good luck with it.