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Vinyl Old timers: HK's and Rabco's

Need some help here. I have seen several old HK ( Harman Kardon ) TT's that had Rabco linear trackers on them. I always assumed that this was the Rabco 8 arm. I recently saw a Rabco 8 for sale on a website and it was completely different. The arms that i remembered looked like a regular linear tracking arm with a straight tube and a headshell. The 8 as displayed on this website looked like a much wider and flatter piece of metal i.e. almost like a piece of flat-stock.

If this really is a Rabco 8, what model arm is it that i recall as being stock on the old HK tables ? Sean
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sean OP
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In case you wanted to see what i was talking about Detlof, here's a link to one on Ebay. I've since been able to find several others that look like this even though i've never seen one before. Kind of amazing to me as to how i could have missed this design all of these years.

Ivan, so what were the "tubular" models on the HK tables called ? Which one actually worked better, the tubular models or the "flat stock" models ? Sean
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1358781471
sean OP
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Thanks for your offer Albert. I will surely keep that in mind as i am looking for a "vintage" type arm / table combo to compliment the rest of a like-minded system. I am still curious as to the differences in performance between the flat arm and the tubular arm that was used later on. I'd love to hear from anyone that has info on either of these. Sean
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sean OP
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THANK YOU for all of your help. I appreciate the quick responses and tips / tricks / links for further info.

As to Steve's description of how the tubular arm is driven, i'm sure that you did a bang-up job of describing it. However, i'm having a hard time understanding exactly what you mean. I'm sure that it would all fall into place once i could see a diagram or actual unit that was "gutted".

I will check the thread on AA and see if it answers my questions. Just in case though, i was curious as to whether or not the tubular Rabco arm could "easily" be installed onto another TT ??? Judging by Steve's description, it doesn't really sound like it. Sean
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