WHEN A FANCY RECORD CLAMP SLIPS FROM YOU HANDS

This was my "new" McIntosh C20 classic tube stereo preamp.  I fully restored it and brought it to better than original specs.

I liked the the looks of the record clamp sample I received from....probably JELCO.
It looked swell, all those fancy spokes; new, longer, lower just like the 70's cars you had to crawl into.

Note that the beautiful clamp is so wide, that many 78s cannot play to the end!

 I was playing an LP.  So no worry about dropping it and smashing a 78 to bits?  When the side was done done, I picked the clamp off of the LP,
 and it SLIPPED out of my hand, bounced off of my hip, and right into my newly restored C20! 

A closer look:

Now you one reason I created the Rek-O-Kut & Empire Disc Stabilizer Clamps.