Can you detach the motor plate from the wood at its hinge? If you can take the crank knob off and take off the crank escutcheon, you might be able to remove the motor with the crank or at least get the winding shaft in position to hold it with a pair of pliers so that you can undo the crank. I seem to recall a gear in the winding chain of gears that can go bad. If that is the case, I may have a spare. A neighbor made two for me many years ago. Or, if the center spindle turns backwards with the crank, can you grab that with pliers (protect the shaft surface with a bit of leather perhaps?
The reproducer is probably pot metal, even if the plating looks good. That it does not turn is a problem. You might be able to get it off with the freezer trick. Remove the positioning pin and spring first. Add penetrating oil. Ron L From: Antique Phonograph List [mailto:phono-l@oldcrank.org] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2015 6:43 PM To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Subject: [Phono-L] Brunswick 17 A friend told me about someone who found an old Brunswick 17 in their barn, and I went out to see it, excited, but discovered it has a very odd problem: I can't remove the crank. It turns, but nothing happens with the motor; when you crank it counterclockwise, the crank doesn't unthread from the shaft, probably because there is nothing to stop the shaft from turning. I managed to lift up the motor board enough to see that this is the case, and that the barrel is turning, but not the gears. Obviously, I can't remove the motor without first detaching the crank, but there doesn't seem to be any way to make the latter happen. The only thing I can think of is to detach the motor (anyone know how many springs it has?) from the metal motor plate, but those screws won't budge, and I'm wondering if this seems like an ill-advised idea anyway. (I already stripped them all a little just trying to get them to turn.) Any thoughts on what is wrong with it, and what I should do next? It's a nice phonograph, and I hate to walk away from it if I don't have to. Oh, and the Ultona reproducer doesn't rotate, either. It doesn't appear to be pot metal, but I'm not sure what the problem might be otherwise... Image removed by sender.
