Thanks for your interest and help. Great site!
I now wish I had kept all those gramophones I sold some years ago!

I've just joined, intending to get info on my own teak 101, identical to (the one in this post)* -- http://www.phonoland.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1982 I bought it locally here in NZ about 30 years ago. I don't normally use it for playing 78s...I have an SME arm, Shure M44 cartridge and Garrard 40...