It uses the same type of ratchet. Contact George Vollema and he'll hook you right up. Dave
--- On Mon, 3/1/10, tubado...@aol.com <tubado...@aol.com> wrote: From: tubado...@aol.com <tubado...@aol.com> Subject: [Phono-L] Amberola 75 help needed. To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 5:48 PM I am trying to get a tired old amberola 75 working. The main problem I am facing is the crank ratchet. The device on both my amberola 30s have a metal tab that turns out of the way when winding and backs into the teeth of the gears to prevent movement in the other direction. This 75 seems to be missing or never had this metal piece. It has only whats left of a friction spring that would release in the winding direction and grab the other way. There is nothig it would grab onto however. Whatever it was hooked to is gone or did it just have the end of the spring bent to interfere with the gear mesh when undwinding. I suspect that could be but when winding, it would just click along the teeth of the spring barrel gear. Is that how it was made? Improved later maybe? Anyway if just the spring did the whole trick I would need one. Please enlighten me. Thanks. Don _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
