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WTB empire tonearm in need of repair

Looking for an empire tonearm in need of repair so I can do some experimenting without ruining a perfectly good arm. Mostly interested in the bearing part with the sprung tracking force weight, along with the mounting post. Have considered using others arms as a staring point, but the empires have a VTA adjustment built in, which most of the dual arms with dynamic tracking force don’t seem to have.

Let me know if you’ve got one of these for sale or trade, or something similar with dynamic/spring loaded tracking force.

If you’ve got an empire arm with interchangeable headshell for an affordable price, I’d be interested in that too, to use as is.

Thanks in advance!