[78-L] table model Victrola, ca. 1919

[L78rpm at aol.com]

Thanks for this !
 
I'll pass your email on to him.
 
Paul
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/24/2013 1:12:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
smille1 at me.com writes:

The  reproducer likely needs rebuilding.  After 90 years, the gaskets dry 
out  and playback will suffer for sure.  It may need a new diaphragm and  
flange as well.  All of these things can be done easily and not very  
expensively at all.  Contact me off-list if you'd like for details and  I'd be happy 
to rebuild and test the reproducer, your friend would have to  just mail it 
to me.

Sean

On Aug 24, 2013, at 12:58 PM,  L78rpm at aol.com wrote:

> A friend --- not a collector --- received a  table model Victrola 
(internal  
> horn, humpback lid, no. 2  reproducer) as a gift.  He knows nothing about 
 
> machines or  discs of the period.
> 
> I inspected it recently and played  several bat wing Victors on  it.  The 
> volume is very  low.  Perhaps the reproducer needs work  --- I don't know 
and  
> can't help him.
> 
> He lives north of Minneapolis.   Can someone suggest someone,  
> geographically accessible, who  repairs machines and might help him?
> 
> Paul Charosh
>  
> It's a handsome specimen.  The cabinet is clean, hasn't  been  refinished 
> and doesn't need it.  The spring mechanism  is functioning  properly and 
can 
> play a disc through at  appropriate and constant speeds.   But the volume 
is a 
>  problem. . .
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