Any lucky owners of Ferrograph?

[niklasthedolphin]

Any lucky owners of Ferrograph machines to tell how fine pieces of art these are and how well they play?

"dolph"

[DaveInVA]

I still have a Series Seven which is the older model of the picture on the left you have up. It was a very nice unit until all the idlers and rollers turned into chewing gum. That was a very common problem with Ferrograph rubber parts. One of these days I need to send them to Terrys Rubber and get them all re-rubbered because otherwise the deck is like new, even still have the original box and packing.

Dave

[DaveInVA]

I almost forgot about the other one I still have. Before Ferrograph the company was called "Wright & Weaire LTD" and their deck was called "Wearite". These were produced from '48 to'55 and these were the basis of the Ferrograph badged models. I still have this Wearite "D" series and its manual. Can't get much older than this with Ferrograph unless you find the model "A" prototype for it :)
The funny thing is its idlers and pinch roller are still in usable condition unlike my Series 7. Guess they hadn't started using Neoprene yet.....

Dave