Is these fake victor?

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he16767
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Re: Is these fake victor?

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Thank you for all your information for proving fake.
And Thanks for yours prove the swiss made one is real.

My Final question I want to ask is:

These kind of rust can be solve?
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estott
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Re: Is these fake victor?

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That would need to be replated with nickle to look best, but you can clean the metal with rust remover and steel wool and it will look better.

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Blimpy
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Re: Is these fake victor?

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A lot of these older machines used pot metal for tonearms and other metal parts, which has a tendency to swell and crack with age. Thankfully, reproduction parts can be had easily thanks to various collectors who make/sell reproduction parts and needles. A quick internet search can give you sites that sell these. I recommend Phonophan, ran by the well-known collector Tim Fabrizio, who also sells fully restored machines (although he only has 4 machines available at the moment).

http://www.phonophan.com/

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Re: Is these fake victor?

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This machine exhibits a problem I've seen in another Swiss machine and in a Pathé: some parts are made from either iron or steel plated with nickle. The biggest problem isn't the surface rust (which is just a cosmetic problem) but the screws that rust in place and can't be removed.

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