Thanks for your welcome. Yeah I know the penny is a bad idea, we were just using it to test and see what all was wrong with it. We used a record that was already in bad shape, so we didn't feel too bad. I figured out the humming was because there was a ground disconnected between the record player a...

Hello, I'm new to this forum and to antique record players and would like to ask some advice. We just recently purchased a Curtis Mathes Stereo from 1963 with a Garrard AT60 turntable. It has a couple of small issues that I would like to try and resolve myself. 1. The records skip quite a bit and wi...