Its an old 1960s unit housed in a separate wooden cabinet so there's no
arm or casing supplied - just the turntable platter itself that resides
in a "cut out" of the large cabinet deck. It has variable 16/33/45/78
speeds via a moving position slider at the lower left hand side, metal
position indicators provide a firm location for the slider. The white
metal platter is very heavy and has a thick ribbed mat, the motor unit
is underneath and is direct drive via a 3"-4" wheel.

The arm which was bought at the time is an EMI EPU 100 unit.

Any ideas which model this turntable is? Sorry, no photos to show...I
have tried seaching for photos on the net but cannot see anything like
this ie just the turntable without the surrounding deck or arm.

Don't you just love it, I think its the Goldring Lenco '88' as I've
just found:

http://www.audiocostruzioni.com/r_s/...hi/lenco-3.JPG

As the turntable is not available to see, I forgot what it looked like
exactly. But seeing this picture reminds me it is the 88 model - the
number printed on it kinda gives it away

Anyway, what opinions do folks have on this unit, and how servicable is
it?

Hi,

some websites about Lenco:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/maddogm...t/lencoheaven/
http://www.stefanopasini.it/My%20Tur...nco-Thumbs.htm
http://www.btinternet.com/~a.d.richa...enco_land.html
http://www.lpgear.com/Merchant2/merc...gory_Co de=L1

DG

Is it the inner gits of a GL75? You could buy it without a wooden box
so that you mount it yourself in any cabinet you wanted. It had the
slider you desribe and the metal position 'locks' could be moved by
slackening some screws.

R

"Robert" wrote in message
ps.com...
Is it the inner gits of a GL75? You could buy it without a wooden
box
so that you mount it yourself in any cabinet you wanted. It had
the
slider you desribe and the metal position 'locks' could be moved by
slackening some screws.

R


If it's a GL68 or GL75 (ISTR both were available as platter only) you
will be unable to lift the platter off without holding upward pressure
against it and giving the centre spindle a sharp tap with a hammer or
something similar.

The GL68 was (a vertical) idler wheel drive against a quite large
motor the armature shaft of which had four stepped areas each being
slightly tapered to allow minor speed correction/adjustment.


--
Woody

harrogate2 at ntlworld dot com

"harrogate2" wrote in message
...

"Robert" wrote in message
ps.com...
Is it the inner gits of a GL75? You could buy it without a wooden
box
so that you mount it yourself in any cabinet you wanted. It had
the
slider you desribe and the metal position 'locks' could be moved by
slackening some screws.

R


If it's a GL68 or GL75 (ISTR both were available as platter only) you
will be unable to lift the platter off without holding upward pressure
against it and giving the centre spindle a sharp tap with a hammer or
something similar.


Ooh, make that 'a piece of wood' would ya?

In article , harrogate2
wrote:


If it's a GL68 or GL75 (ISTR both were available as platter only) you
will be unable to lift the platter off without holding upward pressure
against it and giving the centre spindle a sharp tap with a hammer or
something similar.

Not sure, but IIRC the versions with no arm were nominally just an 'L68/75'
as Lenco did the turntable/base and Goldring the arm.

The GL68 was (a vertical) idler wheel drive against a quite large motor
the armature shaft of which had four stepped areas each being slightly
tapered to allow minor speed correction/adjustment.

Similar for 75. Long tapered spindle with some 'steps'.

Slainte,

Jim

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Thanks for all your replies chaps. I'm certain its a GL '88' turntable.
At somepoint I will dig iti out of my Dad's loft and see what condition
its in. Same for the EPU 100 arm but I'm not convinced stylii are
available for the cartridge anymore (it has a red pip mono and white
pip stereo cartridge). I have a much newer AR EB101 turntable available
to me so its just a question as to what my Dad and I do with his
antique pieces that have been in the family for 40+ years.

David

"deja" in
uk.rec.audio1124706689.883621.166550@g49g2000cwa. googlegroups.com:
Thanks for all your replies chaps. I'm certain its a GL '88' turntable.
At somepoint I will dig iti out of my Dad's loft and see what condition
its in. Same for the EPU 100 arm but I'm not convinced stylii are
available for the cartridge anymore (it has a red pip mono and white
pip stereo cartridge). I have a much newer AR EB101 turntable available
to me so its just a question as to what my Dad and I do with his
antique pieces that have been in the family for 40+ years.

Coincidentally, I've just sold an AR (Jelco) arm on a local auction site
to someone who was looking for an arm to fit to his GL-75; he sent me much
the same collection of links as earlier in the thread, and as a result
I've just bought a dusty, broken-armed GL-75 off the same site for NZD45.

Simultaneously, I am taking photos of and preparing to sell my Garrard 301
on Ebay for I hope an order of magnitude higher in GBP or USD - at least!.

I'm also up to about page 20 on the extensive Audiogon thread mentioned in
at least one of those sites, and happen to have a stash of 18mm ply for a
plinth. My advice would be to study those links and do it justice ... it's
precision Swiss engineering that may even surpass the Garrard 301, with a
decent plinth; add your own choice of arm and cartridge. Don't judge its
performance based on the typically lightweight box it usually had then!

Treat it as a potential project to fully realise its potential ...
research it a bit as above and you may find it surpasses the more modern!
--
RdM

This GL 88 turntable was originally housed in a massive wooden cabinet
about 8' long by 3' deep, with two large lids which when opened showed
the turntable/arm/Quad 22/FM1 on the right, and a reel 2 reel recorder
on the left. This recorder had a super quiet 45db noise level !! I
only ever ran it at full pelt (30' per second IIRC) and it was always
very hissy.

I can't see us selling or throwing out this antique stuff, rather I'll
hold onto it for a rainy day once the kids have grown up a bit and I
have a bit of time to allocate to a restoration project. The sad thing
is that I just won't have the room for his ESL57 FREDs in my house