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A moral/ethical question regarding my Rek-O-Kut Rondine

Hello.  I hope that you are well and enjoying life in general.

I am putting together a Rondine turntable with a tone arm that is too long to be mounted in the existing hole and too short to be mounted offboard -- on the tonearm side anyway but it fits nicely along the top.

But mounting the tonearm across the top is kind of wrong.  I could cut off the corner of the Rondine but that would really really be wrong.

Or is it?  Would it really be a bad thing to cut the Rek-O-Kut's deck?  I mean, that's kinda permanent but it would put the tonearm where it's supposed to be, and maybe that's a more ethical thing to do.

So tell me.  Has anyone done this?  Has it ruined your karma or condemned you to hell?  Did you hurt the turntable or did it really not mind at all?

 

mrearl

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mrearl OP
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I wanna tell ya, I'm not enjoying replacing those rubber mounts at all.  I'd pay someone to do it next time.

mrearl OP
40 posts
 

Okay: Suppose I do this:  Slice off the rightmost two inches from bottom to top and just move it, and the original tonearm hole, over.  This wouldn't be real vandally like cutting a corner off.  It would make the turntable like any old turntable with a separate armboard.  I mean I hate hate hate vandalizing classic stuff but if I had an old car with a single brake system I'd want to put a dual system in it.....

 

 

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