Victor Victrola VV-IX a
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- čas přidán 2. 03. 2024
- This is the machine that was started back in the fall and we have had a couple of unseasonably warm days. This winter that I’ve allowed me to get some work done on it. Today is March 4, 2024 and it’s 60° out and sunny no snow on the ground, so I got the machine back together. This motor has two brand new main springs and has been completely overhauled reproducer has been rebuilt. The finish is completely original and it’s only been cleaned. Nothing more and it is in oak. It’s dark into bed on the outside, but surprisingly, no veneer issues on this one. I did not have to glue a single piece of wood on this machine very surprising considering some of the hardware showed signs of rust, indicating exposure to moisture something that almost always causes veneer issues, but not this time. I still a few little things due to the auto break is gonna have to be taken apart and cleaned in evaporust, yeah, I guess that’s pretty much it.
Thanks Jim. Interesting as always!
Beautiful wood on this one. IX's are probably the most common Victrola I see but the oak versions always stand out. Nice!
Awesome
"when id doubt change it out" !!
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Hello! New subscriber here. I really enjoy your videos on these Victrola’s!! I’m curious, are you located in Quad Cities area? Thanks!
Probably not as I have no idea what the Quad cities refers to. I am in the lower Hudson Valley of upstate New York.
Could I by any chance ask your opinion on something? I commented on an earlier video about me restoring my family's 1927 HMV 101B, it is all mechanically sound and working amazingly well now (thankyou for your help, it was/is greatly appreciated!) but I am questioning about the black leatherette. The leatherette is all original but it is dirty, it is torn in areas with wood exposed and there are bubbles where the glue has let go underneath. Do I strip it and re-cover it with new black leatherette, or is there a way to make it better? Ive heard you can stick loose parts with simple PVA but there are many parts where you'd have to "inject" glue underneath to stick it.
I like to keep everything as original as possible, and I have had success with plain white glue good old Elmers gluing down loose rexine And patching it in if there’s a missing spot. You can bring the color back and match in the patched areas with black shoe dye. Patching in works best with the black covers as this is an easy material to match as it was widely used on other boxes of that era. so I found some junk typewriter boxes, record storage boxes, where the wood was bad and I salvaged the black rexine for later use in fixing phonograph boxes. For the bubbles, I take a razor make a small incision and squeeze in some glue working it around my fingers under the cover, smoothing it out and letting it dry. The original material is available brand new from a supplier in the UK, it is called rexine, this is what I am told anyway. So if you really wanted to, you could acquire that material and recover the machine, but I am not an expert in that sort of thing and I don’t get into it. from what I recall, the original glue was shellac.
@@Rockisland1903 Ok, thankyou so much for that, I was swaying to more trying to save the original fabric but I didn't know how. I believe we can get Elmer's glue here in the UK so I'll have a look, thanks for the advice about old rexine covered boxes, I'll see if I can get some. I recovered my Decca trench gramophone a while ago with that reproduction rexine but it is more of a waxy leather cloth and that was what I was concerned about.
Good luck on that Victrola, it's looking good so far!
I have one like this. I’m told the motor needs gone through. I’m guessing the reproducer also needs rebuilt. Is it possible to send the motor and reproducer to you for service? I’m in Iowa. Thanks!
Yes, you can and you can reach me at
Rockisland1903victrola@gmail.com