10-29-2005, 02:17 PM
Hi Mike
I, too, have seen Beam of Light turntables without their tone arms. I honestly don't know why that seems to have happened fairly often. My own 42-1011's changer was missing its tonearm; I have since acquired another complete changer and installed it in place of the partial unit, although I have not had time to restore it.
The changers probably bring big buck$$$ because many of the surviving radio-phonographs are either missing their changers, or missing parts such as tone arms. Supply and demand, ya know.
I've never read anything about the Beam of Light tone arms being unreliable, but it is well known that the 1942 changer and its two-speed bell drive was not reliable. After the war, Philco offered a retro-kit to make the 1942 changers into single-speed rim drive units.
I haven't heard - or read - anything bad about the 1941 changer.
I, too, have seen Beam of Light turntables without their tone arms. I honestly don't know why that seems to have happened fairly often. My own 42-1011's changer was missing its tonearm; I have since acquired another complete changer and installed it in place of the partial unit, although I have not had time to restore it.
The changers probably bring big buck$$$ because many of the surviving radio-phonographs are either missing their changers, or missing parts such as tone arms. Supply and demand, ya know.
I've never read anything about the Beam of Light tone arms being unreliable, but it is well known that the 1942 changer and its two-speed bell drive was not reliable. After the war, Philco offered a retro-kit to make the 1942 changers into single-speed rim drive units.
I haven't heard - or read - anything bad about the 1941 changer.
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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
