Fully Restored 1968 Hacker GP42 Gondolier Plays Russ Conways Side Saddle 1959 78 rpm

Not wanting to be left out on the Side Saddle 78rpm record. I bring my entry on the Rolls Royce of Record Players The 'Hacker GP 42 Gondolier'
This video is for the Three Nicest Russ Conway fans on Youtube!
Joe - Ivoriesman, Neil - Pyestudiocolour and Mike - honkytonkpiano. a former Hacker GP15 Cavalier owner and Amazing Pianist!
For anyone interested this GP42 has been 'Fully' Restored in every way!
I hope you enjoy my Side Saddle 78rpm entry...haha!!!
Thank You :)

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• Conway
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[NJPurling]

Experience with radios has made me very suspicious of capacitors made by Hunts?

My Hacker does hum, so I naturally suspected the main 50+50uf can has dried up.

Do you change them, or not? The hum is audible through the speaker,wheras yours is silent, even at full volume. So, if it is not due to any of the capacitors: Precisely what do you do to the transformer? I assume you refer to the mains transformer.

[GarrardAT6]

@NJPurling Too much to answer in 500 characters...So many different causes of humming and cures...haha!!!

If you want a chat about it fine! Send me a personal message...I'm in the workshop all day today. :)

[NJPurling]

I have one as well.

I dropped in a SP25 Mk2 and took the SC12H cartridge from the original Garrard 3000 changer.

Hums a bit though. The smoothing can is by Hunts, 'nuff said. Was 50+50 can the source of hum in your Gondolier or down to the other electrolytics on the HT rail?

All I have done is to change the grid-couplers to the ECL86's pentodes.

Are ECL86's generally reliable. I haven't seen new ECL86's in matched pairs very often.

[GarrardAT6]

@NJPurling Garrard 3000's normally have a Sonotone 9TA as standard fit?

I do have 3 Gondoliers with standard fit SP25 MK2's. One is on the bench right now. The caps that normally fail are the grid-couplers. They never really make a hum, just make the sound distorted as the valves overheat

I changed the ECL86's for a matched pair of new old stock Mullards as one was a Mazda. ECL86's are normally very reliable!

Most Gondolier hums are the transformer, easy cure with a little packing. :)

[simonspiers]

Hacker rule the Radio world!

[GarrardAT6]

@simonspiers And the Record Player World! :)

[simonspiers]

@ciarantlogue Well...OK then. Hacker rule the World!

[ciarantlogue]

@GarrardAT6 Ah right. I would tend to agree but I have only really heard a few.

It's a Conquest exactly like this:

I picked it up on eBay (I must be mad...) and it is in much worse condition that I thought. I might just send it back and focus on the Hacker actually.

[GarrardAT6]

@ciarantlogue I was just having some fun...Nothing really beats a Hacker Gondolier (And they know it...haha!!!)

I've become very good friends with Joe - Ivoriesman...He is such a lovely guy! We chat on the phone for hours...Also Loyboy1979 he called me 5 mins ago...haha!!!

If you need any help or advice please feel free to ask!

What Model Dansette do you have? Thanks for the sub! :)

[ciarantlogue]

@GarrardAT6 I'm not surprised! I'm thinking of attempting a restoration on one soonish. I'm an impoverished student right now though so it may have to wait. I have an old Dansette too but I'd rather spend the money on the Hacker.

Great that you found the extra speaker too. That must have been hard to come by.

Do you guys have some kind of competition going with how good the record can sound or something?