Victor Service Instructions— Early triple spring motors

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MarkELynch
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Victor Service Instructions— Early triple spring motors

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Some of you may find this spring servicing instructions useful, it was sent by Victor to its dealers.

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Re: Victor Service Instructions— Early triple spring motors

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Great information. Thanks for posting it.
Ken Brekke

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Yes, great information. Very helpful. It also finally answers the question how to install a new spring that comes with a retaining ring. No need to manually wind it in, just push it into the spring barrel.

Thank you very much!
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alang wrote:Yes, great information. Very helpful. It also finally answers the question how to install a new spring that comes with a retaining ring. No need to manually wind it in, just push it into the spring barrel.
The replacement springs that I've bought so far don't come with that huge "C"-shaped retainer seen in fig. 5, but are retained with a circle of iron wire. Not only the rivet slot is not exposed, but the whole spring+retainer combo may fit inside the barrel with no possibility of pushing away the retainer as explained. Also, I would always be in doubt that the rivet and the slot have correctly engaged. Personally I wouldn't do it that way in any case.

These instructions seem to me mainly a theoretical essay about how these operations would be performed by immaterial ghosts in an ideal world. Fig. 4 almost makes me laugh and I challenge anyone at taking a picture of barrels A and BC in the same position without barrel BC rocketing out of the window. Fig. 13, where the shaft is re-inserted without even pushing it, but actually gently holding it from above, delivers a similar comic effect.

Thanks a lot in any case for posting these pages, Mark, they're a very interesting period document!

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