Experience with Transcriptor Turntables?

Stanwal, Thanks for the memories. I used to frequent Harmony House back in the early 70s, as a poor student who could not afford to buy anything. Several years later, I bought a Marantz 10B tuner from Russ. And I do recall the Transcriptors in the window. Later, I owned one. The Vestigial tonearm was aptly named, probably one of the weirdest tonearms I have ever seen, but not THE weirdest. Seems like the Dynavector design is a much better implementation of the basic engineering of the Vestigial.

I fixed an aweful lot of those things while I was going to engineering school (I worked in a consumer electronics repair operation).

They could be quite finicky to set up but seemed to hold together if transported properly to their residence.

I was never a fan of the arm as a little warp had them sounding like a Close and Play.

I have a Michell skeleton and am replacing the cartridge. However, the color coding for the wiring has worn off. Does anyone know which wires go to which post on the Vestigial tone arm? The turntable was given to me without a cartridge so I'm at a loss. Help please! Thanks. Rob

I'm in a similar situation. I have a reconditioned vestigial tonearm, and the color coding on the wiring is not 100% right. But it's easy. With the RCA plugs the pin in the middle is signal and the shield-outer is ground. Right hand plug is red, left is black or white. The right signal on the RCA pin is red, the ground (shield) is green. Left signal (pin) is white, ground is blue. Use a sensitive ohm-meter to match the wires with the cartridge connectors to the right and left pin and shield. When you choose a cartridge remember it has to be high compliance because of the low mass of the vestigial arm. I'm trying an ADC XLM. It still isn't connected, but I'm expecting good results.

I recently purchased a transcriptors Hydraulic turntable from fleabay....misrepresented ...in bad shape....has the fluid arm that needs help....anyone in USA for restoration/repair?? platter has small dents,dust cover missing...can platter be repaired? thanks for any help....Mike