Re: arsclist turntables for transcription discs

["George Brock-Nannestad" <pattac@xxxxxxxx>]

Date sent:      	Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:50:20 -0800 (PST)
From:           	"Dr. Cheryl Thurber" <cthurb@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject:        	Re: arsclist turntables for transcription discs
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> Cheryl Thurber
> wrote
> :
 on old radio station transcription disc turntables. ....... Should I go ahead
> and try to use it?

----- I would say that professional equipment from the late 1940s 
onwards (until ca. 1980) was extremely sturdily built, and would 
most likely be serviceable. However, if it has not been regularly 
serviced or at all rotated for a longer period of time, then service 
needs to be done. Lubricants will deteriorate, dust will settle, 
rubber components will harden. We are not talking restoration, but 
repair, so anything suited for the purpose may be substituted. 
Spinning the turntable without service may be very detrimental and 
will certainly increase rumble and then wow, and you are quickly 
looking at something unprofessional. 

Kind regards,

George Brock-Nannestad
Preservation Tactics
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