After being suitably inspired by the forum I've dragged out an old turntable from the loft. Bought in the 80's it has been moved from loft to loft, and nearly ended up at the tip at one point. The motor unit dates from 1974 and I have the original mat but it's still in the loft somewhere. Here it is pretty much as I bought it apart from the mat and the Neat headshell that had a Shure cartridge in it that was put on a workhorse record player years ago and that probably did end up in the tip. The picture shows a cheap headshell that I bought the other day - my first aim is to get it functional and then play around with it a bit.

IMG_20200626_161202293_HDR by stax8, on Flickr

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