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Installing mainsprings into the Victor Victrola VV-XI spring barrels 

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This is the older style motor with individual spring barrels. Work slow and careful, springs can hurt you if you do not respect their power. Use safety equipment, eye protection, maybe a full face shield, and heavy leather gloves, work slow. Spring installation requires a firm grip in both hands. The later improved motors used one spring barrel to hold both springs, same basic idea on installing them, they also went to the bent end on the arbor middle side in later 1917, and changed to bent ends on both sides of the spring by 1920 or so. With these older spring styles that have pear shaped holes on both ends pay attention to the direction of rotation, take pictures before pulling the spring out. Pulling the spring out is just the reverse of installation, you reach in and pull out a few of the enter coils and work the rest out same way you see me putting it in with a very firm grip on what might be a greasy spring. Do not just blast it loose into a trash can, or the floor, you can damage a spring this way and you might want to reuse them. Key here is firm grip, safety gear, and work slowly with no distractions. If you can't grip it firmly for whatever reason then send it out to one of the companys that will do it for you and pay to have it done. Do not risk hurting yourself if you are not confident that you can keep hold of that spring.

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@oliverw3646
@oliverw3646 2 года назад
You do this with great ease. it's obvious you've done it hundred of times! Great job,
@Rockisland1903
@Rockisland1903 2 года назад
I don't remember how many times I have packed a spring barrel, probably over a hundred times I would guess. I don't do this for a living, only as a hobby, and I rarely do it for other collectors as I have limited time, and many of my own machines waiting.
@joeking1722
@joeking1722 4 месяца назад
I did the springs on my 1917 VV-ix and agree that the rings are the hardest part. I used jb weld on end of the rings to keep it from coming off as it got out of round and I couldn't get it to connect all the way around the barrels
@Rockisland1903
@Rockisland1903 4 месяца назад
At that point I would be replacing springs with new ones. They are available and they’re not that expensive. In fact, I did finally get the main springs installed back in the spring barrel and the motor is back together for my 1918 victrola nine. The motor is not installed back in the machine yet because I only had one freak warm day to work with and I had other things I needed to do. Spring will be here soon enough and I will finish the rest of the machine. I have mixed results with JB Weld for the Chinese knock off version. I’ve never used them for anything on a photograph, except an attempt to reassemble the shattered remains of a pot metal tone on bracket on one of the later portables. It worked OK there, but it’s mostly something are use for repairing hurricane lanterns and automotive use, of course. But it sounds like you had a good example of thinking outside the box when it came to a needed repair because eventually you will be faced with a machine that you cannot get a spring for, and you will have to fix it somehow.
@joeking1722
@joeking1722 4 месяца назад
I meant the retaining rings not the springs(.I edited my post .) The springs where like the ones you showed in the video. Has nipper on them. In good shape..Machine works great listening to it daily.
@ShanonSaunders
@ShanonSaunders Год назад
I’m very invested in your cat
@Rockisland1903
@Rockisland1903 Год назад
I didn't realize the cat had made it into this video, there are two in the shop, a calico named Slinky, and an orange and white named Grim. Both are litter mates about two years old now, and are lap kitties when they are not shredding mice that get into the building.
@andrew.dallas
@andrew.dallas Год назад
Cool Army Truck!
@harrycallahan8573
@harrycallahan8573 2 года назад
I think I'd throw on a pair of safety goggles too. Sounds dangerous if it comes flying out of the barrel.
@Rockisland1903
@Rockisland1903 2 года назад
Face shield or goggles.
@TKELCH
@TKELCH Год назад
Hello Victrola Collector, I just got a VV2-65 that is missing the crank. Will a VV-50 crank fit correctly?
@Rockisland1903
@Rockisland1903 Год назад
If you own a VV-50 crank give it a try. I own at least two 2-65's, I don't recall what the crank looks like. The 2-65 isn't like other earlier Victrolas in that it's a machine assembled from various contract parts. RCA just put it together in the Camden factory. It would be the last machine put together there before RCA shut down the plant for good. I will see if I can dig one of the 2-65's out, might take a few days as things are not well organized in the storage pile.
@Beegeetees913
@Beegeetees913 Год назад
Great video - thanks! Can you recommend a vendor for the springs? Thank you!
@Rockisland1903
@Rockisland1903 Год назад
George Vollema at Great Lakes Antique Phonograph, he will need the size, for the XI and similar machines like the IX they are 1 1/4" wide by 17' long, replace them in pairs so they have equal power. There are other suppliers, but I use George when needed because I have been doing so for many years now. For the HMV machines that do not use a Victor type motor I get them from a supplier in the Netherlands. zwarteschijf.nl/
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