Hello Everyone, Thank you again for helping us to solve our motor issue and for all the comments about whether or not to restore our Victor II. It looks like we will take our time searching for parts and restore the II. We will let you all know how it comes out. The Victor III was our first outside horn Victor machine so we are so happy to have it working. There is an old repair to the spear tip oak horn that we will need to deal with and we would like to have the tone arm re-plated but for now we are just happy to hear it play! :) Below are links to a video of our now working Victor III and our Home Model D with wood grained metal cygnet playing our first ever royal purple cylinder. Thank you again for all of your help! Melissa Victor III http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHjh_Xfw1n0 Home Model D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lADxtbyrJY
--- On Sun, 10/9/11, Vinyl Visions <vinyl.visi...@live.com> wrote: From: Vinyl Visions <vinyl.visi...@live.com> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Victor III is Working! Thank you! To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Date: Sunday, October 9, 2011, 9:49 PM You should be able to find the parts to complete it for several hundred dollars. Since you only have $75 in it... I would restore it - it's definitely worth more than the parts "should" cost and a Vic II is a great machine. > Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 16:37:47 -0700 > From: riccib...@yahoo.com > To: phono-l@oldcrank.org > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Victor III is Working! Thank you! > > Hello Everyone, > Thank you so much for the outpouring of support last weekend when our new > Victor III motor was giving us so much trouble! > We went to an antiques auction last Monday and won a very poor Victor II for > only $75.00. We replaced our Victor III drive gear with the one on the Victor > II and presto! > It turns out we have a bad drive gear on the Victor III!! It now works like > a charm! Many people guessed that the gear was maybe an older replacement > part or poor reproduction and it turns out that is most likely the case! > The wooden horn sounds fantastic and it is so loud! I am going to post a > video of it playing tomorrow. > The Victor II needs a new tone arm, back bracket, crank, connector for the > horn and now a new drive gear in order to be restored. The case is okay and > since we only paid $75.00 for it, we are tempted to put the work and parts > into it to get it running again. Do you think it is worth fixing up or are > the parts going to cost more than it is worth eventually? Your opinions are > greatly appreciated. > Thank you again for all the help and advice! > Melissa > --- On Mon, 10/3/11, Melissa Ricci <riccib...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > From: Melissa Ricci <riccib...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Clarification of Victor III Motor Question > To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org> > Date: Monday, October 3, 2011, 12:00 PM > > Hello Everyone, > > First let me say that I truly appreciate all the great suggestions and help > offered for our problem. I am writing this to everyone because I have > received these same suggestions from many, many people. So I would like to > clarify what we have already tried. > > We have already: > > 1. Adjusted the drive gear up and down (above, below and on the center of the > worm gear) to try to get it to mesh with the governor worm gear better. > 2. Made sure that no set screws or parts of the governor are hitting anything > when in operation. > 3. Made sure the ball bearing is present in it's spot. > 4. Turned the drive gear upside down. > 5. All part are clean, lubricated and move freely with no friction until the > drive gear is mated with the governor worm gear. > > I hope this helps. Thank you again for all the suggestions. Please keep them > coming! If you have an idea, we would love to hear it. We are going to look > at it more when we get home from work this evening. > > Thank you, > Melissa > > --- On Mon, 10/3/11, tuban...@aol.com <tuban...@aol.com> wrote: > > > From: tuban...@aol.com <tuban...@aol.com> > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Victor III Motor Question > To: phono-l@oldcrank.org > Date: Monday, October 3, 2011, 11:02 AM > > > Get or borrow an adjustable strobe light to visually "freeze" the parts at > the time of the click. I have solved a few hard ones like this with a > strobe. > > Don > > > In a message dated 10/3/2011 8:48:07 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > lhera...@bu.edu writes: > > And/or does the bull gear and spring can assembly move freely? > > Ron L > > -----Original Message----- > From: phono-l-boun...@oldcrank.org [mailto:phono-l-boun...@oldcrank.org] On > Behalf Of Melissa Ricci > Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 10:42 PM > To: Phono-l > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Victor III Motor Question > > Is the bull gear attached to the spring barrel? > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
