Looks like the arm from an AR-XA. The other half of the bearing is captive in the floating T-bar subchassis.
Thank you! That is exactly what it is. with that Info I googled it and found this website that clearly shows it!
AR XA Turntable Rebuilding
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AR XA Turntable Rebuilding
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SY is correct, I've owned at least 3 of these tables. Arm is not as bad as you might suspect, although my approach always was to replace it with something else..
what have u replaced it with. i just did one and used a old microtrak. looking for next project. i
I've had two AR turntables, the first I purchased in the early 1960's. I'd say the arm is probably as bad as you might expect: in the winter the arm required a 15 Watt light bulb next to it to keep the bearing from freezing up. Then there was the 15 degree tracking angle -- azimuth -- for which there was no correction. It didn't help that the suspension bottomed out and that the platter spun counter clockwise, but that at least was not the tonearm's problem.
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