If Gramophones are your thing, The Gramophone Guru may be the help that you need. Tim Weeks, the Gramophone Guru, has over 30 years of repairing and refurbishing gramophones. Not only is he a collector of gramophones but a collector of original 78's to play on them.
If you love the world of gramophones; looking to purchase this lovely antique for your home, have one that you own restored to its original condition, need a repair or spares, or looking for a certain artiste from the days of 78s....
Contact Tim using the details provided in the video clip, you'll be amazed at his knowledge and talent at making gramophones sing again!!! Or find him at
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Good afternoon. This of course, is fairly typical of most of the gramophones that we get here in the workshop; they’ve not been serviced in eighty years, probably not been wound up since the last time Lonnie Donegal released a single. So. What are we going to do to put it right?
Now what an awful lot of people do at this stage, is they get hold a can of this good old WD40, and they squirt it into pretty well every hole, opening and orifice in the machine in the hope that somehow or other, that’ll make it go; like some sort of mechanical fairy dust. Well let me tell you, it doesn’t work!
Think about it like this, if you had a broken leg, rubbing Vaseline on your ear wouldn’t sort it out would it? Probably Not. So, let’s do it properly shall we?
…. And there we go! We should have it fixed, so let’s see how we get on….