A 60 year old turntable design is still going strong!

and to that i need to fix Edgar's (Villchur) name....

Vinyl Nirvana sells nicely modded AR TTs for ~$650. I bought one! Among the modifications the stock arm tube is replaced by a Technics with removable headshell and a wiring upgrade. The venerable AR is transformed into a competitor against today's four-figure TTs!

MC - you are saying just use a record weight correct?  Yes that's one way to hold them down. Keep in mind that with suspended tables (old school) a lot of weight becomes both a load and balancing issue though.
This is an AR thread after all :-)

Watch this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rgK0YMsJXM

The AR XA was a landmark design. It was the first isolated turntable, it was belt drive and it instantly antiquated most turntables. You could not use it commercially but audiophiles do not slip que records. It was built to be as inexpensive as possible so it has no creature comforts but thousands of growing audiophiles could own one and enjoy a level of performance totally unique at that time. It was like the VW Bug for audiophiles. The Bug was a superb winter performer (compared to other cars of the day)  if you put snow tires on it you could drive through anything. People who live South would not realize this. Up here everyone my age has bug stories. A friend in collage had a purple Bug. We went to Montreal to see Elton John. Coming back at the border I guess the guard smelled marihuana. He got us out of the car and planted us on the curb while we watched them take the bug apart. They took the air cleaner off!
In the mean wall us long haired collage geniuses knew there was not so much as a seed in the car. We cleaned it out and smoked everything we had on the way up and at the concert. I tapped on one of the guards and quietly told him he was really wasting his time. That made a big difference of course but, I really did not want them to be disappointed that they did not find anything.