Victor Cabinet Dissassemble Question

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Any insight on how to disassemble the legs from a VV-X?

Thanks guys! Any insight is much appreciated.

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[Phonofreak]

Why would you want to remove the legs? If you really have to, the legs are glued in place with dowels, so It would be hard to do.
Harvey Kravitz

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Why would you want to remove the legs? If you really have to, the legs are glued in place with dowels, so It would be hard to do.
Harvey Kravitz

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Great question Harvey! A lady I work with has a VV-X with a front broken leg and major chips out of it. I found a VV-X cabinet that is in rough shape as well BUT has good front legs. So to help her I was going to take these legs off of mine and fix hers for her. I was not sure what "tricks" or how hard it was to take them off of the cabinets to ultimately fix her's for her.

Thanks guys,

[Dave D]

If you can figure out where the joints are, use steam to loosen the old hide glue.
Dave D

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If you can figure out where the joints are, use steam to loosen the old hide glue.
Dave D

Should have known it wouldnt be easy. Thanks guys!

[Jerry B.]

The parts of any Victrola cabinet are soundly made and then the sides and finish veneers are added. I know no way to remove a leg or motor board frame without cutting the cabinet apart. I once bought a Victrola that had been through a fire. I salvaged good parts and then broke up the cabinet with a heavy hammer for recycle. What a job that was! Jerry Blais

[edisonclassm]

I agree with Jerry. The Victrola cabinets are very well made and put together. You almost have to soak them apart although I would not recommend that technique. Strangely however, the Auxetophone cabinets, of which I've restored many, were very poorly done. They used a crappy core wood(Hickory) which rendered them very unstable. The joints and especially the veneer are usually unglued at various points and have to be reglued.

[52089]

I used to give the shells of wrecked Victrolas to my landlord to chop up for firewood. After he did 1 or 2, he asked me to please not give him any more of those because they were too much work to cut up!

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Ahh...... This might be harder than I thought. Just trying to help her out..... May not be worth it.