Do you ever lock your phonograph lids or record storage?
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Do you ever lock your phonograph lids or record storage?
So, what's the split?
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Re: Do you ever lock your phonograph lids or record storage?
I'm always worried that the lock will jam and not un-lock.
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Re: Do you ever lock your phonograph lids or record storage?
I selected only once, but lately any machine that has a lock stays locked. You see my house is for sale, & I noticed early that some potential buyers couldn't resist touching the machines or my antique china dolls.
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Re: Do you ever lock your phonograph lids or record storage?
I'm one of those who don't want to have to call a locksmith, so I don't use the locks, just in case they jam or something.
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Re: Do you ever lock your phonograph lids or record storage?
I'm also afraid one of the machines will lock shut so I never lock them. I've seen too many machines with screwdriver damage because they had to be pried open at one time...
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Re: Do you ever lock your phonograph lids or record storage?
I don't lock my record cabinets....except, of course, for the ones that house the red Columbias!
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Re: Do you ever lock your phonograph lids or record storage?
I just got a key on ebay for my VV-100 so I just had to try the lock. It works. Now that I know that I won't lock it again.
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Re: Do you ever lock your phonograph lids or record storage?
What WAS the usual reason that people way back then would lock their phonograph lid? I know if I had a bunch of little male kids, I can imagine how impossible it would be for them to resist messing around with it - punching thru the diaphragm with their thumb, getting needles and swallowing them etc. Almost any kid that could walk could also reach his hand up there and wreak havoc.
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Re: Do you ever lock your phonograph lids or record storage?
When you think about it, almost everthing of any value seemed to have a lock on it in those early days, fine furniture, trunks and chests, bedroom dressers. Why on earth would you want to lock a drawer that just contained your underwear?frenchmarky wrote:What WAS the usual reason that people way back then would lock their phonograph lid? I know if I had a bunch of little male kids, I can imagine how impossible it would be for them to resist messing around with it - punching thru the diaphragm with their thumb, getting needles and swallowing them etc. Almost any kid that could walk could also reach his hand up there and wreak havoc.
Just a theory but phonograph records were pretty valuable relatively speaking, $.25 - $6.00 and on up for some of the opera stuff. But even if you did not have any kids, probably having a lock on it attributed much more value to the machine than the actual cost of the lock???
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Re: Do you ever lock your phonograph lids or record storage?
I was fortunate enough to find three (!!!) Victor wreath keys -- one gold and two mill-finish -- in a cigar box full of keys in an antiques mall in Florida a couple of months ago. When I was home last week, I tried them. The gold one worked the lock on my Victrola XII perfectly, and the mill-finish keys worked the lock on the matching side-loading record cabinet. Perfect!
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