After lots of elbow grease (well, really just Gojo), sourcing a new lid (that I bought from Skihawx), and scraping some paint I've got a pretty well transformed machine. Here are some before and after pics.
Just your standard wear and tear...
...except for this lid upon which a leaky plant lived.
Everything else is just a little dry and scratched.
The lid I got from Skihawx was a little rough on the inside...
...but nothing a little clean and wax couldn't take care of.
The lid was also rough on the outside...
...but after a bit of scrubbing, scraping, and rubbing...
Dischoard wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 1:38 am
Sadly my XVI came with a chrome Exhibition, anybody out there have a gold colored one they'd like to swap for a chrome?
That would be nickel-plating, not chrome. Nickel has a yellowish cast, chrome is bluish.
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Congratulations on a job well done. Saving a phonograph from the parts bin has to be one of the best aspects of the hobby.
"You can't take the phonographs nor the money with you, but the contentment the phonographs bring may well make your life better, and happier lives make the world a better place."
Hello Dischoard (a clever name!) It looks like a brown Pathé PERFECT record on the turntable of your machine. Do I see a wooden needle in the socket?
I had a feeling that wooden needles and brown "Perfect" records did not go well together.
A very nice job you have made of the gramophone. I had a similar model years ago. I remember it was in a 1920s house in a classy part of our seaside town. Unfortunately the machine was in the attic, four flights up! We managed to get it downstairs with a lot of quiet swearing, and snubbing of toes and knuckles against the walls. I remember there were about 5 78s with the gram, nothing of interest, EXCEPT for a rare "Featherflex" disc.
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