Spotted this odd turntable on ebay.  Anyone know what it is about?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110523933397&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:AU:1123

Martin is your man for odd decks like these. I am pretty sure we have seen one before though - it is a Beogram 1000 with a different arm fitted. HMV did the same.

Also looks like a (admittedly offbeat) candidate for adding to our list of Beograms with inbuilt RIAA.

Personally I don't particularly like the aesthetics, which is often the case when people alter B&O pieces.

Chris.

I've seen quite a few 42/609/610/Beogram 1000 based record players
from other producers, HMV, Triotrack, Skandinavisk etc. but
I never saw this one before. Neither did I ever hear about Labcraft.

I agree that the tonearm looks a bit clumsy if compared to B&O's but
it's an interesting deck none-the-less.

The dustcover will probably have been replaced at some point, I don't
think the B&O logo would have been there originally.
On the other hand, the cutouts for the tonearm look original.

Well spotted !

Martin

Medogsfat:

Personally I don't particularly like the aesthetics, which is often the case when people alter B&O pieces.

I saw the His Master's Voice version at a flea market last summer. That one is butt ugly!

There is another one also listed in Ausralia. Although the plinth and headshell are missing.

LINK

Craig

The last one I'm sure was mounted in another furniture of some kind.
It was quite common back then to fit a deck like this into existing furniture and several
B&O record decks could be ordered as build-in modules without cabinets.

Seeing a Labcraft/B&O turntable is a first for me.
Seeing one for sale is even more unusual.
Seeing two for sale at the same time is downright strange.
And both are in Australia - why ? 

Martin

Perhaps Labcraft was Australian? (I actually found talk on these on audiokarma.org from two years back, in Oz as well)

As the latter is claimed to be from a library, it makes sense to think that they may have been installed in a desk.

Or what do you think?

tournedos:

Perhaps Labcraft was Australian? (I actually found talk on these on audiokarma.org from two years back, in Oz as well)

As the latter is claimed to be from a library, it makes sense to think that they may have been installed in a desk.

Or what do you think?

Stating to think that they were for library use then. Maybe the one in the first link has been put into a Beogram 1000 plinth after.

Craig