Well, after a little bit of searching I found an original replacement headshell for the ADC 1700DD turntable. With everything priced in USD and the CAD being so poor against it right now, it's a bit more than I wanted to spend on it, but then I figured that if you're going to do a restoration, do it right.

Besides, I'll have an original sample now so I can fire up a CAD and bash together a 3d print of it, and the connector and wires are cheaply available online, so will likely make 2 or 3 more (I have a few cartridges).

We'll see how this goes in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!!

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Made progress on two related projects last night. The first photo is a closeup of a vinyl record stylus that is attached to a moving coil cartridge mounted on a turntable I picked up at a garage sale in the fall. Cleaning and testing are next for it.

The speaker is part of a pair of nice '80s bookshelf speakers (also from that same garage sale) that I'm re-foaming. That stuff just doesn't last, and is sticky/messy.

Wow, with the CAD being so low right now, those foams are costing me a bit to ship from the States.

I have another re-foam project on the horizion but I'll wait and see how this one goes....

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