PAM 127 1950 Question

[lfovco]

Hey there, it's been quite a while for me since I got a rep and since I visited the forum.

I'm still enjoying quite much my old school 111 from EL that I got back in 2005 and modded it with a correct crown guard and a nice accurate crown. I'm actually amazed that after all these years ( started back in early 2005) reps still come with crappy crown guards and crowns, with an exception of crowns on 127's and 1950 flybacks.

I also still have a nice 5 years old EL Black Seal, 1950 Flyback and IWC Ingenieur.

In any case. I came back to the forum after a "break". I'm interested in getting a nice PAM 127 1950. I have been reading around about what has changed in past couple years for last few days (nights). Trying to find some ideas at obtaining a nice 127.

Could you shed some light at what's up these days and where should I look. I see many of the old dealers are still around, but I also see quality goes up and down a bit.

Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks a lot..

[PeteM]

Hello mate

Personally if you want OTB then go DSN much as I dont like to say that... Just suggest you remove AR

If you can wait then I suggest going with the EL, yes things aint changed!!, they come about in the sales section every now and again but you pay top dollar and some of them aint what the seller thinks they are so you need to know what your looking for including the EL versions available etc.

If you have more time build one, pick the best of DSN (older stuff) and EL etc plus if you want to franken let me know I have been offered gen dial, CG and crystal recently but as always its silly money !!

Good luck

You might see one available at the moment, non EL, please dont think about that one

[lfovco]

Thanks a lot for the great info PeteM.

I see things definitely did not change much. I may just go for an "off the shelf" version of 127, get it serviced and then see what else I might want to do with it later.

As fas as building one, what I'd like to do is to build a custom, as good as possible 5218-202A PVD. But I haven't looked into where should I source various components from yet. Although I have seen few posts stating that you really need to go to quite few sources. M not sure yet how to approach it. But my goal would be to have sweetest 5218-202A PVD possible.

Thanks a lot for the info.

[PeteM]

No probs mate.... Good luck