Re: Yoda teaches (was: Subtle Changes at WBZ)

["Brian T. Vita" <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

At 10:10 PM 5/20/00 -0400, Sven Franklyn Weil wrote:
>Ok....gotcha.  The Gates were probably not direct-drive, but idler-drive
>(a wheel between the motor and the inside rim of the turntable platter),
>right?

The last Gates that I saw was a direct drive with what looked like a 
washing machine motor driving the thing.  It was set up for 15" 
transcription disks and had a tone arm that rivaled a plumbing device.  I 
think that it needed a good running start to back cue.  Betcha couldn't 
stop the SOB once you got it rolling though...

Brian, GALC