Just bought this from a charity shop, it was instant love.
Not sure if it works yet as I need 2 PP9 batteries, but not bothered if it doesn't.
I love it 
It's a 'Dansette'

Edited October 1, 201410 yr by Northern Soul UK

Cool,  charity shop bargain no doubt

Edited October 1, 201410 yr by Mach

Cool,  charity shop bargain no doubt

Well, charity shop yes, but they wanted £40 for it, and I offered £20 because they didn't know if it worked or not and neither did I, so we settled at £25.

Edited October 1, 201410 yr by Northern Soul UK

I'm jealous

I'm jealous

I'll be over the moon if it works Pete. 

cool

Yes really nice , let us know if it works.  If not, you could try    Dansette.com   ( restoration and repairs ) .

Edited October 1, 201410 yr by carty

Yes really nice , let us know if it works.  If not, you could try    Dansette.com   ( restoration and repairs ) .

yeah just been looking there actually carty, they sell spares and accesories too. Just ordered 2 batteries of eBay, gonna give it a good clean up and then everything crossed. It had the old batteries in that were badly oxidised, but fortunately the connectors had been disconnected. that could be a sign that it doesn't work, or maybe the previous owners couldn't be bothered changing the batteries?

Edited October 1, 201410 yr by Northern Soul UK

Just found out that it is a '1960s Dansette TRG45

I wouldn't be playing any rare records on that. It'll eat styrene for fun.

It's certainly a highly collectible item!    

It's certainly a highly collectible item!    

Yes Weego, the last working one that sold on eBay went for £255

Would be worth throwing a few bob at it , some of the refurbished models on that Dansette website are priced at £ 545 ! And yours looks so much cooler.

1. Its gorgeous  just superb seen these but never had one, used to have to make do with  my Bush Valve job I think I can still remember one of the valves been a FM38 not sure single peaker but I used to do telies so I would rob the speakers and wire them all up the the bush, we then got in 1976 a stereo sound still had same deck Garrard SP25, spent most of my mid 70's absorbed in electronics but the Dansette was just gorgeous gorgeous if you need spares like old resistors caps and stuff I still have racks of old component's, if you need em.. 

I wouldn't be playing any rare records on that. It'll eat styrene for fun.

 

I once met a Rock'n'Roll collector at a record fair who sold 'upgraded' 1950's portable record players. 'upgraded' meaning he spent ages improving the tone arm to a) putting much less weight on the record and b) fitting new state-of-the-art needles. He said any 45 could be played w/out any damage.

 

Unfortunately he charged a lot. Didn't stop folks to buy them though.

 

1. Its gorgeous  just superb seen these but never had one, used to have to make do with  my Bush Valve job I think I can still remember one of the valves been a FM38 not sure single peaker but I used to do telies so I would rob the speakers and wire them all up the the bush, we then got in 1976 a stereo sound still had same deck Garrard SP25, spent most of my mid 70's absorbed in electronics but the Dansette was just gorgeous gorgeous if you need spares like old resistors caps and stuff I still have racks of old component's, if you need em.. 

 

Excellent news, Thank you, I will see what happens and let you know if it fires up with new batteries.

Hey guess what? Lots of crackles on the volume/tuning knobs, but all working fine.
Ingenius too, cos when you have the radio on, and then move the tone arm to play a record,
 the radio goes off and the volume on the record comes on 

 

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Edited October 3, 201410 yr by Northern Soul UK