You say victors are very fragile with the gold. Would you use the same process with Edison gold plated? Lacquer thinner, never dull, lacquer thinner? Or are the Edison’s gold sturdier and you could use the flitz?
Remarkable!! I have all the pieces for my reproducer except for the silk and my diamond stylus is shot. Do u know where I could get a diamond tip stylus?
So awesome thank you!! I’m so glad I found these videos!! I scored an Edison S-19 at a yard sale. I love the way your videos are short and easily followed. Thank you for your guidance. I am so excited to try to bring mine back to life! THANK YOU!!!
I find the repairs and restorations of gramophones very interesting. These little 😍 machines made very beautiful music 🎶. It is highly recommended 👌 to wear gloves, face, and body protection, especially when working with the mainspring barrel. Please keep these GREAT gramophone videos coming!! Just subbed yesterday!! Your friend, Jeff!!
Is this the same assembly for an Edison S19? I’m watching all these videos because I just scored one and want to try to rehab it. (I don’t know if I can but your videos make me think it’s possible). Thank you for the step by step!
A solution of simple green 50-50 with water. I have a bucket and I put all the big parts in that after I wipe off the visible grease. Then I remove from the solution, dry completely using an air compressor.
Like the phonograph needle display collection! I just started collecting those myself. Cool idea to put them just above the records. Also got hooked on collecting the round celluloid record brush/ dusters. Always a pleasure to watch your informative videos!
Okay, now I understand the significance of this particular machine, and why Rene Rondeu set up and Opera serial number list. On the Antique Phonograph Society’s forum.
Hello, Thank you for the nice explanation on setting up the horn. I have a horn and the bottom shaft of the crane, around 6 inches. Can you please suggest how to build the crane or where can I buy the crane? The horn is 31" long and 19" diameter. Thank you.
Ive learned a huge amount from you since i found this channel a few weeks ago. My motor was squeaking and your advice on using wd4d to clean off the old grease worked. Fixed the problem. My reproducer broke and hearing yours inspired me to send it off for restoring. At the same time my tone arm bracket finally broke. Now i feel confident i can replace that. Im broke but grateful😂 thank you, keep up this amazing content.
I love Billy Murray beautiful song 🎵 on fantastic looking Opera Best of luck in ye New Home so looking forward to seen your museum collection displayed please do more videos when ye up and running 👍😀☕️
Thankyou for showing that i sent cylinder records and they can be a real nightmare to send especially wax cylinder records, Know matter how you send them how careful you are there's always a chance they can break in transit.😮😮😮
That looks like a sensational install! Suggest you tip your installer! ;-)😁(For those considering the product, it's the "Kallax" storage system from Ikea.) Sturdy and inexpensive for what you get, but like the genius says, it does need to be anchored to the wall to prevent tip-overs.
It is so very nice seeing Matcha again! I greatly admire your ability to fix these machines and keep them running as well as you do, says he who does not know which end of a screwdriver to hold.
I'm glad you mentioned you would lock it in from the top! My first thought upon seeing the shelf was "You need to make sure that is locked in to the wall so it doesn't fall on someone...like a grandchild or small visitor!"
Wow, this takes me back. “The Whistling Coquette” was the first Blue Amberol cylinder I ever owned (it came free with an Edison Fireside.) Very nice song. Good luck on the new place btw.
I recently rebuilt a 4-spring credenza motor, but ended up having a second person hold the spring above me as it was wound into the barrel. I found every time the spring touched the floor winding it on my own, it would pick up abrasive particulate. Your shop must be far cleaner than mine, lol.
I restored a Victor 10-50 and a Credenza, I was able to buy junked pot metal reproducers and cobbled together five nice sounding ones. Even if the lockdown ring is broken in two pieces I can usually still tighten it down successfully. Also replaced the ball bearings and gaskets with new ones. Not beautiful as far as the finish goes but they all sound equally great, as long as they work right I'm happy..
Great video! You inspired me to take my vv 4 3 motor out. It was making this clicking sound when spinning. Found inches of caked on grease all over the motor. Used a papertowel to get as much off as i could and reoiled with sewing machine oil. Can you do a video on degreasing a motor? How do you get that stuff off.
I am needing advice! And maybe some help to figure out what is wrong with my phonograph! It’s an earlier model maybe 1916. Square shaped horn and we don’t know what is wrong with it! We want to be able to play records. ☺️
Boy, what a nightmare! 😲 It is advisable to find out how the seller will ship the records to you before buying them. You can ask that they be packed a certain way, and hopefully the seller will agree to pack them properly. I've seen a method where the records are stacked with or without sleeves in a cardboard sandwich with no more than 10 records and then placed in a sturdy box with packing material like styrofoam peanuts to cushion all around the 78 records sandwiches. Do you have any experience shipping them that way? Thanks! 👍👍👍
@@1974hurt Thanks for your further advice. I have a lot of them, so I may individually wrap the very valuable and cherished ones, but the rest will have to face a little more risk. Have a good day, sir!
This is a beautiful machine. I enjoy my Home very much but I think I like my Triumph a little more. You wind it up and it seems to play forever. My old favorite before I got my Triumph with the O-reproducer was the Fireside with the 2-piece horn and the K-reproducer. I love watching all of your videos. You and your wife are fantastic!!
the amount of detail that goes into these videos is fantastic - thank you for spending the time to do this. Looking forward to tearing down and refurbing my one! Just curious - what do you use for polishing?
