Details to make new Revere Legs and Stretcher

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Details to make new Revere Legs and Stretcher

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I just provided these pictures and specs to the buyer of my Revere shorty I sold recently and am posting them here in case anyone else also is going to have the legs and stretcher made from scratch.
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Re: Details to make new Hyperion Legs and Stretcher

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I updated the pictured cardboard piece below to complete the photo record of the specs.
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Re: Details to make new Hyperion Legs and Stretcher

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And just because it's cool, here is Buster Keaton with one.

And amazingly I found another shot of him with it...added it below.
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Re: Details to make new Hyperion Legs and Stretcher

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PeterF wrote:And just because it's cool, here is Buster Keaton with one.
Is that a Hyperion or a Revere?

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Re: Details to make new Hyperion Legs and Stretcher

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Revere had no radio, and an orthophonic horn (firing downward at the floor) rather than a speaker.

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PeterF wrote:Revere had no radio, and an orthophonic horn (firing downward at the floor) rather than a speaker.
the photos above the buster keaton image show a revere,I have a complete hyperion and I saw the vdifference

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Re: Details to make new Hyperion Legs and Stretcher

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Well, it might not be a Hyperion - Wayne or somebody, please help?

But it is definitely not a Revere.

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Re: Details to make new Hyperion Legs and Stretcher

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PeterF wrote:Well, it might not be a Hyperion - Wayne or somebody, please help?

But it is definitely not a Revere.
Seems that it is...
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Re: Details to make new Hyperion Legs and Stretcher

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Except that the machine with Buster is not a Revere.

Look at the machine Buster is leaning on. Do you see the radio? Do you see a speaker grille? Yes, on both counts.

Look at the posted pictures of a Revere. Do you see a radio? Do you see a speaker grille? No, on both counts. Instead, if you look carefully, you see shots of the downward-firing smaller orthophonic horn (and notice that the legs have been amputated). The Revere is an acoustic phonograph, not an Electrola. It has no speaker. It has no radio. It's a Revere, which is not very much like a Hyperion, at all.

They are not the same.

So who amongst us can ID the machine Buster is leaning on, if it isn't a Hyperion? Sure looks like the one shown here (albeit called a 16-1 rather than a 15-1):

http://radioatticarchives.com/radio.htm?radio=2152

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PeterF wrote:Except that the machine with Buster is not a Revere.

Look at the machine Buster is leaning on. Do you see the radio? Do you see a speaker grille? Yes, on both counts.

Look at the posted pictures of a Revere. Do you see a radio? Do you see a speaker grille? No, on both counts. Instead, if you look carefully, you see shots of the downward-firing smaller orthophonic horn (and notice that the legs have been amputated). The Revere is an acoustic phonograph, not an Electrola. It has no speaker. It has no radio. It's a Revere, which is not very much like a Hyperion, at all.

They are not the same.

So who amongst us can ID the machine Buster is leaning on, if it isn't a Hyperion? Sure looks like the one shown here (albeit called a 16-1 rather than a 15-1):

http://radioatticarchives.com/radio.htm?radio=2152
To Clarify
The machine Buster has is a Hyperion..the machine that Victrola monkey has in his photos is a Revere

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