Rabco SL-8E Tone Arm

Hi Kisawyer, You got my e-mail address so you should explain to me which parts you need. I can then look if I have those and decide if you can get them for free or
not. Your Rabco is not my problem but yours.

Hi Kisawyer, I have some somewhere in those boxes in which
I accumulated all kinds of parts during 40 years of this
enigmatic hobby (nikola et andric.com). I hope they deed
not accumulate to much rust meanwhile.

Kisawyer, If you post the pictures of your Rabco to me
I can see what parts are missing (btw 'et'=@). You have
my e-mail address and don't need A'gon as intermediary.
I bought then an incomplete Rabco for parts but never used
any.

Essential&Mosin, Is David 'the watchmaker' who used ruby
bearings for the Rabco and moded the armwand? In the 80is
or even before? The Rabco was/is very popular in Holland
but the aim by modifications was to make the arm lighter
(aka MM carts). So, among other, the balsa wood was used for the armwand.

Dear Lew, You are obviously in 'logical' trouble except if
Herb Papier had an alias : David Shreve.
I now recollect that the Rabco story started before 70is.
Back then my scholarship was $250 per month while the Rabco
price was the 'astronomical' $1000. I wanted then to know everything about this 'wonder' and think that I dreamed about owning one more than about any girl that I can remember. To get the 'right picture' think about your dreams about the sport cars in your student time.
The 'upgrade sickness' started direct after the introduction and I wanted to know everything about any of those while still dreaming about owning one. But my imaginary Rabco upgrade should be done by this American watchmaker who used ruby bearings for the purpose. I have read somewhere about this upgrade and was impressed with
the jewels which to my knowledge were only used in expensive Swiss watches. This was my association when Essential and Mosin mentioned David.

Regards,

Dear Essential..., I am really glad for Kisawyer. He also
got the pictures of my Rabco spares so he can complete his
Rabco. I hope however that David invented some other kind
of armwand than those balsa wood kinds. Some Aussie proved
(?) that this obsession with the arm weight was badly founded by using his FR-66s for all of his MM carts. I have no idea what Copernicus has to do with the cart compliance but at present physics become a kind of branch of astronomy so who knows?
Anyway I myself would use the FR-66 only to defend myself
(Hi Raul). But my own question about those ruby bearings is still in need for some answer so Lew may be, as usual, right.Herb deed it again?

Frogman, In those times when we were young the girls were, so to speak, for free while any tonearm whatever was not so your VTA analogy looks to me problematic.

Regards,

Dear Frogman, Sorry I missed your point. Well the optimist
among us may think to be able to find the 'sweet spot' in
both 'fields' of their activity. A skeptic however will
probable state that one kind can fake or pretend while the other together with whatever stylus misses the speech capability to tell. So , obviously, it is a matter of belief.

If I remember correctly in 'the early 80s ' this combo was already available in the second hand market. That is why I could afford the 'treasure'. For about 3 months I was more interested in playing with the Rabco than playing the music. But, as is the case with this hobby, after some time I wanted something better and got the Goldmund . The 'early euphoria' transfomed then in a nightmare such that ever since I never bought something else then the pivoted tonearms.

The thinking 'behind' the new Morch 8 tonearm from Denmark
is also connected with the 'horizontal mass' . If I grasped
the description well(?).

Dear Mosin, thanks for you reference to Kelly but his lecture is to complex for me to understand. I mentioned Morch 8 in the hope that some others will investigate what
the designer is at and explain to us in the 'layman vocabulary' the issue. We all want to know 'what there is' but are, alas, not all capable to understand without help.
This to me is the 'sense' of our forum; to learn from others.

Regards,