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Thorens TD-320

I recently bought a Thorens TD-320 turntable.  It worked fine for me, I need an auto shut off turntable as I have a disability and getting up in a timely fashion when the record finishes is difficult. I also wanted to try a belt drive turntable.  All was good until I decided to upgrade the cartridge.  This must be the first TD320 model

(Mark i?).  I bought a Hana SH.  I believe it has a TP90 tonearm.  The manual says it is TP-16 although the arm on the turntable does not look like the arm in the manual.

Here's my problem.  I do not see how you can mount a cartridge on this table.  There are shims that go inside slots.  Nothing seems to have threads. It's the worst designed arms I've ever seen for cartridge mounting.  I am a bit new to cartridge mounting in general so I'm wondering if there is a trick I'm missing.

Joe

 

 

joseph321

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Thanks for the replys. 

I looked through photos of various arms.  What I have is a two piece arm. The arm part with the headshell on it says Thorens.  It looks like a TP63 or TP70 arm that I,ve seen in photos.  The photos of the Tp16 I've seen show a large headshell.  Apparantly Thorens would take the same tonearm, change the headshell and use a different tonearm number.  I did not see any photos of the headshell on my arm which is connected to a 5" length of arm tube.

I am thinking of buying a headshell/arm combination for TP 63 0R 70 plug it into the other arm section.  Based on photos they have a fairly standard cartridge mount.

Last resort is to modify the tonearm I have.  Drill holes etc. but don't know if that is sacreligious.  It's a bit above my level of expertise.

 

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