You might be able to get it to fit, but then it will sound like a -II which
really there's little point to.
The element on the original 421 is designed to be repairable. The diaphragm
and coil pop off, you put a new one on and center it with shims and go. The
problem is that they haven't actually sold the repair parts any time in the
past half-century.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."