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Today I spent some time taking stock of the record cutters I have and remembered I have more hiding. The Recordio's head is still unknown condition but I'm fairly confident it is equipped with a crystal cart. I had a spare cutter cart (that I pulled from a spare mech that I sold) that is the same size/shape...I opened the spare up to discover rotted crystal. I'm going to have figure out some form of signal source to test the Recordio's cart. My memory of the Recordio working may have been wrong...At the time of that memory I owned a second no-name record player/cutter/amp that I still have that unit has a magnetic cutter cart that has continuity...That may have been what I was remembering. Neither unit is in great cosmetic condition...The No-name had much of the tweed eaten off its case when stored in the garage in Florida (damn cockroaches!) and the Recordio needs woodwork, grille cloth, and correct knobs, but has the factory stand (that makes it into a legged mini-console), and the original instruction book (and some accessories) going for it. Not sure if I'll fix one or both right now. I have been toying with the idea of growing new Rochelle Salt crystal piezo elements to try in pick up carts. Lots of videos on making the crystals on youtube, but none trying to use them for the application or make them the right size... If I can make such a thing work for a pick up then maybe I could scale it up to a cutter cart. Supposedly the originals were all Rochelle Salt carts back then. I figure new Rochelle Salt elements must be the way that the places that rebuild 40's playback and cutter carts do it so if I can figure out the process I could do my own professional rebuilds. I may shelve the Recordio, for now, all is recapped and working but the cutter mode and I have other cutters. Just a moment ago I remembered there is a cutter on my Philco BOL console too...Can't test it now but the head feels like the magnetic one in my no-name unit...Fingers crossed on that.
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