Motor as Art

[Victrolacollector]

While it is an interesting "piece of art", I think many of our forum members are interested in preserving old machines as they were meant to be used.

As far as an abundance of motors out there, there are quite a few, but not as many as one might think. Some motors are rare as hens teeth, and to destroy one would be awful, especially early Victor motors, Talk-O-Phone and Columbia motors.

There are probably a higher abundance of Heineman motors such as the popular two spring Heineman, they are marked "Motor of Quality", but even these are needed for phonograph repairs, as they have some inferior parts that seem to wear out fast.


All in all, while it is an interesting perspective, I would dislike to see the day that people raid machines, destroy beautiful pieces of history for repurposing, I have seen too many beautiful machines ruined by people converting them to wine cabinets, book cases, stands etc. We are also seeing people destroy beautiful old radios as well, I recently saw some bakelight radios painted hot pink and black knobs, a beautiful orthophonic missing all of its hardware and turned into a raised lid, silverware display. I have also seen a sawed off upright as a table, and a nice Edison C-2 gutted out and made into a vertical book case for a whopping...$850.00 in Michigan City.