gramophoneshane wrote:That's a great looking machine Brian, and an unusual design.
If you ever have to service the motor, I'd love to see you add a picture of it one day. I've never seen a Paillard's bottom mount motor before.
I actually just sold this machine, which reminded me of this discussion... but I didn't realize I never posted photos of this peculiar motor as you'd asked. I snapped a few this morning before the thing left the apartment en route to its new home. aside from a couple of scarce Pathé tabletop machines, this is the only model I've ever seen with a motor mounted to the case this way, rather than the motorboard... it's also unusual in that that governor is beneath the rest of the mechanism. it's definitely huge overall, though... I failed to measure it, and it's only a two-spring design, but the barrels are more the size of those on edison's upscale machines than anything else, so the springs must be unusually large as well... I remember on a full wind, this motor ran for quite some time.