OT: dumpster dive and water/mold cleanup

If it's a hollow pot cast metal consider using JB Weld in the hollow underside with a small coat hanmger wire strip (or 2) within it as a brace. It will make the unit less valuable if someone noted the underside repair but if there is no replacement available that's your next best bet since zinc/pot metal can't be brazed or welded. I did an arm from the steam piston to the eccentric wheel on a small German steam engine and it worked great and was hidden so that people didn't see it. When it was assessed I didn't say a thing and the assessor didn't notice it until she started getting to the fine detail as where the JB Weld was I had used brush on silver hammer-finish paint and it blended well enough to cover the remaining JB Weld as to appear at regular glances as the normal diecast. I had it assessed for my uncle, the owner of it then and getting up in his years and not willing to F*** with it but wanted the extra cash to his estate to be put away for burial expenses. The steam engine brought $750 even with the note that it had been repaired. This was more than the assessor had planned but then she didn't take into consideration the crowd at the auction either - Well off Chicago suburban doctors, engineers, etc that wanted it for the novelty rather than the functionlity, though it worked as well as the day it was new and was still in it's original heavy printed cardboard box from pre-WWII 1937 Germany as opposed to W. or E. Germany. My dad had one identical (all the sons got one that year when they were kids) and my brother has it now but has made a nice cherry wood and glass case for it and has put the box away in safe storage. -> -----Original Message----- -> From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On -> Behalf Of Tothwolf -> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 11:02 PM -> To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org -> Subject: Re: OT: dumpster dive and water/mold cleanup -> -> -> On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Chad Fernandez wrote: -> -> > Both my truntables are form Goodwill, one a Harmon Kardon, the other a -> > Pioneer. I'm presently cleaning the Pioneer. The Harmon Kardon is on -> > the closet still. -> -> While searching for info on the Dual 1209 turntable I pulled from the -> dumpster, I found a site called The Turntable Factory -> [http://www.theturntablefactory.com/]. If you need advice or a source for -> parts, it might be worthwhile to email them. I've been chatting with them -> about a tonearm head for the 1209 (its currently broken due to -> the way the -> turntable landed in the dumpster). I'm a little worried about the cost of -> a replacement tonearm head, *if* I'm even able to find one. I may end up -> having to fabricate a replacement myself. The old one is cast pot metal. -> -> -Toth ->