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17th Nov 2018, 5:08 pm | #1 |
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Galiphone gramophone?
I have acquired a Galiphone gramophone in dirty but restable condition. Never came acrosss this brand and I am assuming it’s a generic furniture store or catalogue gramophone. It’s nit badly made, better than the Astoria I have recently restored.
Main problem is that is it is missing the turntable spindle. The spindle hole in the motor appears to have a thread, wondered if any one has come across this before or has any advice. The motor is a Collaro, not the usual Thorens or Garrard
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17th Nov 2018, 5:34 pm | #2 |
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Re: Galiphone gramophone?
The spindle appears to be there, with a threaded internal hole, so presumably the turntable sits on this and there should be another externally threaded portion of spindle, which then clamps the turntable in place? Having assumed that, I've never seen a Collaro motor with this arrangement, only a Heinemann "Flyer" motor in an an American Columbia machine. As there are three extra holes in the motor board, this has obviously been re-motored at some time, so maybe the spindle was adapted to take a different turntable?
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17th Nov 2018, 7:08 pm | #3 |
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Re: Galiphone gramophone?
Yes I am sure it’s not the original motor. The motor runs very quiet no bumps and would easily play two 12” records on one wind. The tone arm and sound box appear not to match, the sound box fits but is very loose, the arm does not move smoothly, even after a spot of sewing machine oil.
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17th Nov 2018, 9:10 pm | #4 |
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Re: Galiphone gramophone?
Looks like a little lathe job, though you could try a suitable set screw with a tube or pile of suitable diameter washers over it.
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