Hi Guys
I purchased a Victor IV on eBay that needed some work. Needs a new finish, a
few screws are missing (in the machine, not me), a little cosmetic stuff. Not
much really, considering I got it for about a third of the retail price.
The machine arrived in fine shape, the Victor morning glory horn was damaged
in shipping. A few petals were bent fairly badly, one until the supporting wire
was showing. That one I was able to bend back pretty much to the correct
position.
My question is, is it better to bend them back to shape and settle for good
enough, or should I run an insurance claim on it? The problem here is that the
post office may take the horn if they ofer me a settlement, and then I would
really be out of luck. As it is, I have a damaged horn that could probably be
made 'livable'. By the way, this horn is painted gold. Yuck. I may just get an
original horn to replace it...I have plenty of wiggle room due to the good
price I got it for. I already got a lid latch thanks to George Vollema, but I
need to plug and redrill the holes for it as they are stripped (probably why
the orig latch is gone).
So which is it - insurance, or bend and be mostly satisfied? Or does anyone
know a good way to restore a Victor MG horn?? And is it strip and repaint, or
buy a replacement horn?
Thanks
J
From a...@popyrus.com Tue Dec 26 19:59:33 2006
From: a...@popyrus.com (Andrew Baron)
Date: Tue Dec 26 20:00:22 2006
Subject: [Phono-L] Yahoo's Electrola group
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I found all the submissions interesting food for thought, and I tend
to agree with this conclusion.
I had thought for a while that it might make sense to keep
discussions to prewar machines (wartime production for most radio-
phonograph combinations and phonograph attachments was brought to a
halt around March 1942, so just as with automobiles, there was a
brief '42 model run. But then the thought that the technology was
little changed in the early post-war years would tend to lump those
years in as well. So the prewar boundary, although perhaps
artificial becomes a way of defining and limiting content but there's
a lot of cross-over information that would benefit post-war machines.
Since Bakelite and other molded cases coexisted with wood cabinet
machines from the '30s onward, and in light of the 45 and 33 1/3
speeds being introduced about 1948 and 1949, I think the cleanest way
to establish a guideline would be to keep the topics primarily
focused on the records and machines of the 78 rpm era (80 rpm disc
and cylinder included).
Perhaps the most relevant piece of communication had to do with semi
off-topic postings dying off on their own. The bottom line is that
if someone posts an innocent inquiry to this group because it seems
the logical place to learn the needed information, and one of us can
supply that information, all the better. After all, it's as much
about passing down the wisdom and knowledge as it is about sharing in
the joy of discovery.
Andy Baron
On Dec 26, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Loran T. Hughes wrote:
> Walt,
>
> I found myself thinking along the same lines this evening. How
> about we simply define ourselves as a forum of phonograph
> collectors and not worry about some artificial boundary. Let the
> discussions evolve as they may.
>
> Loran
