I just brought home a couple boxes of parts motors and found one I have not seen before. It appears to have Victor parts but is in a configuration more reminiscent of some generic motors.
Does anybody recognize this motor? It is apparently missing a spring barrel and drive gear.
Thanks! Cliff
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Re: Mystery Motor - Victor?
Looks like an HMV portable to me.
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Re: Mystery Motor - Victor?
Looks like the one I have in my VV 1-1 (sometimes called the Victrolita). Spring barrel has the drive gear affixed to the bottom of it. I never liked that system of holding the crank in position, relies on a coiled spring wrapped around the winding shaft to keep in from unwinding backwards, propeller-like. In fact, that's what doomed my little 1-1 to the leaking barn where I found it. I'd assume it was used in portables due to economy of parts and smaller size.
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Re: Mystery Motor - Victor?
I have seen this motor in the Orthophonice era portables, also.
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Kirkwood wrote:Looks like the one I have in my VV 1-1 (sometimes called the Victrolita). Spring barrel has the drive gear affixed to the bottom of it. I never liked that system of holding the crank in position, relies on a coiled spring wrapped around the winding shaft to keep in from unwinding backwards, propeller-like. In fact, that's what doomed my little 1-1 to the leaking barn where I found it. I'd assume it was used in portables due to economy of parts and smaller size.