Ween't these also sold under the name 'Vanophone'?
> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:19:22 +0000 > From: bruce78...@comcast.net > To: phono-l@oldcrank.org > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Questions about a General Phonograph Model E > > Read the blurb here under Otto Heinemann. He owned the company. > > > http://books.google.com/books?id=xV6tghvO0oMC&pg=PA486&lpg=PA486&dq=General+Phonograph+Co.+Elyria,+Ohio&source=bl&ots=s8a-A1qjRT&sig=z4LpF6du4GfUmbA-Yz6HgIltAUw&hl=en&ei=hcHjSvCsEobk8Aa30JyIBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CB8Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=General%20Phonograph%20Co.%20Elyria%2C%20Ohio&f=false > > > Bruce > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Kocsis" <chris...@cox.net> > To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org> > Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:37:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [Phono-L] Questions about a General Phonograph Model E > > I got this cute little machine at an auction and have some basic > questions I hope you can help me with. I've posted photos to > Photobucket: http://s664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/chrisk33/ > > 1) Does this look like the original tone arm? > > 2) How about the sound box -- see closeup -- It seems to say RCA and V > in a deco style. Do those letters together mean that it was made no > earlier than 1929 (the RCA and Victor merger)? Could it possibly be the > one that was supplied on this machine? > > 3) The sound box is not fastened to the tone arm very rigidly. There is > a cylindrical red rubber seal (hard and cracking now, don't know if it > was ever flexible) in between and the sound box can be twisted a little, > both sideways (on the axis of the tonearm) and vertically, changing the > angle that the needle makes with the line of the groove. Should the > needle be slanted at all sideways with respect to the record surface, or > would anything other than 90 degrees be tracking error? How about the > rake of the needle longitudinally in the groove? All the phonographs > I've seen with one-use needles seem to have the needle at an angle, such > as 35 minutes past the hour if the sound box were a clock. What is this > ideal angle? > > 4) Lastly, much of the (nickel or chrome?) finish is corroded and pitted > -- on the turntable edge, on/off switch, the needle cups -- can you > recommend someone to restore these, or from your experience should I > attempt to polish and plate them myself as suggested in "The Compleat > Talking Machine"? > > Thank you! > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
