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Posted 7 months ago
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Here's one of my fav's. This Victrola had peeling veneer, lots of scratches and missing the tone arm, bracket and reproducer. I got the tone arm and bracket from Ray Chase at Victrola Repair Service for a good price. I re-attatched the veneer and stripped the old finish off, gave it a few coats of shellac.I removed the rust from the wheels and greased them. I eventually will have them re-nickelplated, rebuilt the " SPRING" motor and it lives once again.
All I need now is a key for the lid to finish it off.
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Motor? It isn't spring driven?
You're correct blunderbuss2.....I forgot to put the word spring or windup in there...OOPS! lol =0
Be real careful of over-winding. I had 1 that had a broken spring riveted together & it made it jump out of the cog. Could only wind it up about half way at a time & the cost of having a spring made was incredible. Course that was 15 yrs ago.
Oh! don't I know that one. I do about twenty turns and that's very slowly. That hapened to my Silvertone. The spring had a crack in it. What an awful sound it made when it let go. I snipped off the cracked end, "about an inch and a half", then drilled a new hole. placed it back on it's catch and put a cotter pin in place of a nail someone had placed in there to hold it. I wind that one with kid gloves. Very different design than a Victrola.