Hi,

Can't find much besides a schematic at Nostalgia Air. Does anyone know if this is 33 1/3 or 78 RPM?
I'd like to get a blank disc to record on to try it out but need to know what speed it is. Operating instructions would be great! The instructions for a Sparon 1071RPA would probably work as my unit also has the dual tonearms unlike the nostalgia air documents.

Thanks,

Corby

That unit uses a high voltage crystal cartridge, which I can almost positively guarantee is bad. Same with playback cartridge.
Outside of that, there are the paper capacitors, and, electrolytics to worry about first.
This will not be a budget job.
Worth restoring if you want to spend the money.
Bill Cahill

The playback is an Astatic crystal unit and the cutting head is magnetic. I did figure out its speed as 78RPM as the Astatic cartrige installed is for that speed! Now to see if I can find a blank 78RPM disc to try it on once its finished.

Some of the early radio/record cutter units used a special blank with the grooves already pre-cut into the blank. That is because they didn't have a lead screw or tracking disk to create the grooves. Don't know if your unit falls into this category -- if so you are probably going to have trouble finding pre-grooved blanks.

-David

Upon inspection the cutting tone arm rides on a lead screw underneath the unit that slowly rotates as the turntable spins. So it looks like it does not require a pre-cut groove!

Corby