Brass Columbia Tone-Arms

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Brass Columbia Tone-Arms

by Neophone » Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:20 pm

Folks,

I recently got a gold toned Columbia tone-arm and reproducer that I hoped to use to help me along with a table top Columbia I'm working on. I was surprised to find it was brass, not potmetal, when it arrived. Sean told me the early ones are brass. Well I hadn't paid much attention (Don't know how I missed it!) but the tone-arm from my little Eclipse is brass as well! How short a time were these made in brass? Anyone know?

ImageGold-Tone Set

ImageTop One-Eclipse/Bottom One-E-2

So I guess it's the elbows that are mostly the problem. I sort of already knew that, but It's an interesting distinction.

Sorry for the cut off image. The current layout of this board doesn't allow much width!

Regards,
J.
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