I will get two identical ones, and mount one with an adapter on a standard headshell, because I would be extremely curious to make some comparisons with my pivot arm table - just to chime in on the IGD debate on linear vs. The main thing here is not to go overboard on a very expensive cart, but to make sure tracking force is about 1.25 (which I actually think is/was a T4P standard - correct me if I am wrong) so as to not induce unnecessary wear on valuable records, when I do decide to give them a spin on my new old toy. I get the impression that there is a limited choice of these available, and I am looking for some recommendations. A little sibilance, and a very faint hum from the original Panasonic cart, but it is three decades old and for its age it is just fine. I played a few familiar records that I have duplicates of and I use for tests, and they sound pretty much the way they are supposed to. I put a strobe disc on, and the speed is dead on. The person that sold it to me obviously took care of it, as it has no visible wear of any kind, but still, I am amazed at how well it has aged - the plastic parts have not deteriorated in any way, and the mechanics are in perfect working order. It is/was no more than a entry-level table, but is still built very well. Isn't pretty, but highly functional.I always wanted a linear tracker when I was a poor teenager in the 80s, and now 30 years later I picked up one of these on eBay, and I am having a blast with it as a side project.įirst off, this thing works flawlessly 30 years after it was made. Basically, mine consists of a cheap wetvac from Harbor Freight, about 5 bucks worth of PVC pipe and adapters, about 8 bucks worth of Velcro, duct tape and an old turntable with the arm removed. I use standard unscented Swiffer sheets in place of the Discwasher for general cleaning, and a very cheaply made RCM for anything more than that. Add the distilled water back in til the gallon jug is full, shake well and you have quite a nice supply.Įven so, I find the Discwasher system to be rather obsolete. This keeps the solution from beading and lets it sink down into the grooves, where the gunk is. Else use a few drops of Dawn, or any surfactant that you can find. Add to the remaining distilled water 1 bottle of the highest percentage pure isopropyl alcohol that you can get your hands on, 1/2 cup of Lysol and 40 drops of Kodak Photoflow, if you can find it. My old D4 I use for scrubbing records on an RCM.thats about all they are good for.ĭump out about 1/3 of a gallon of distilled water into a very clean container (I use quart mason jars). I really envied my friends' older D3 brush. I discovered this when buying a Discwasher around 1980-81 at the exact time that they switched over. It has some sort of half-assed courderoy fabric that just doesn't work as well as the D3. What's important in distinguishing between them isn't the fluid, but the brush. Does anyone else remember that differently? In other words, I don't think D3 and D4 were offered as alternatives for different purposes at the same time when D4 came out it replaced D3. I suspect that after they sold D3 for a long time, D4 was announced as "new and improved" whatever that usually means. I don't have any recollection of what the numbers meant.
I recall that the original Diskwasher fluids had a faint hint of alcohol smell, and suspect that there wasn't much more to them than distilled water, a bit of alcohol, and a wetting agent to break surface tension. The dry part of the brush removes some more dust, and also any residual moisture left on the record. And the water also helps remove static electricity. The record barely gets wet, but the wet part of the brush is good at sweeping out some kinds of dust. Then you lightly place the moistened area of the brush against the spinning record, very gradually turning it so that the area of the record cleaned with the moistened area, is then cleaned with the dry area of the brush. The diskwasher instructions say to put 3 or 4 drops of solution along one side of the brush surface, and then wipe along them (I use the base of the bottle) to spread the moisture.
0 kommentar(er)
