Columbia Grafonola ID

[jaimzb]

I'm sorry, I just checked. The rusty spare plate I have is the same one you already have. My memory is really going! Mike

HA! Thanks for checking. For now, I will see if I can do a decent retrofit job, but will keep my eye out for the correct parts.

I searched the web extensively, and only found one cabinet with similar carvings/motifs. It was on an auction site (http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/115 ... phonograph), but gave no detailed info. It also has a very nice grain pattern, so maybe you are correct regarding this style only utilizing the nicer veneer!

Steve

[whoopinola]

I've got a good Columbia motor and motor plate that should meet your needs . It's off an early Columbia Favourite , but I think it's going to fit. It takes a female crank. Motor needs a good cleaning. The springs seem intact.....$75.00 plus shipping cost

[mikejk]

There you go Steve, whoopinola has your motor and plate. That is the same plate and motor in my burl cabinet. Mike

[whoopinola]

Here's the motor plate that you need in the donor machine. Also shown is the base of the tone arm that you need to connect the tone arm that you already have with this base plate

[De Soto Frank]

Just one comment about securing that motor to the cabinet deck: this is done with nickel-plated round-head machine screws, that thread-into Tee-nuts, which are on the underside of the deck.


Whoop, looks like you've got something for everyone !


De Soto Frank

[jaimzb]

Just one comment about securing that motor to the cabinet deck: this is done with nickel-plated round-head machine screws, that thread-into Tee-nuts, which are on the underside of the deck...
De Soto Frank

Good to know! I will probably be purchasing this one, so hopefully Whoop will include the mounting screws. I checked my cabinet, and sure enough, it has the threaded T-nuts.

One quick question. In the off-chance I decided to retrofit my current motorboard since I like the 3-weight governor and brake system, will the 3 spring barrels from the correct assembly directly swap over to my "incorrect" motor board assembly?

Just started disassembling the works, and found the 3rd barrel spinning on the shaft due to the attaching stud being sheared off.

Thanks again for all the great help.
Steve

[mikejk]

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[marcapra]

From my reading of the Columbia book, your model was made somewhere between 1915 when this cabinet was introduced and 1918 when they came out with new cabinet styles and new model numbers such as the E-2, G-2, H-2, etc. My Grafonola is called the 150 model based on its price and my cabinet is in satin walnut. I believe yours is called the 110, since it is based on the 100 cabinet, as mine is, but has push button record storage. Yours has a rope design at the top of the lid, which mine does not have. Does that rope go all around the lid? Mine has four bins behind two doors that tilt out separately with a drawer at the bottom. The Grafonola that you refer to at the auction site is a much rarer model called the 200 based on its price. The highest priced machines of that time had the five louvers over the horn, instead of the four louvers on yours and mine. I've never seen one with five louvers in person so that one must be rare. When I bought my Grafonola the motor was stripped and the tonearm and reproducer swollen. So I bought a model 50 table model, which some call the Favorite, in order to swap motors and tonearms.

[jaimzb]

From my reading of the Columbia book, your model was made somewhere between 1915 when this cabinet was introduced and 1918 when they came out with new cabinet styles and new model numbers such as the E-2, G-2, H-2, etc. My Grafonola is called the 150 model based on its price and my cabinet is in satin walnut. I believe yours is called the 110, since it is based on the 100 cabinet, as mine is, but has push button record storage. Yours has a rope design at the top of the lid, which mine does not have. Does that rope go all around the lid? Mine has four bins behind two doors that tilt out separately with a drawer at the bottom. The Grafonola that you refer to at the auction site is a much rarer model called the 200 based on its price. The highest priced machines of that time had the five louvers over the horn, instead of the four louvers on yours and mine. I've never seen one with five louvers in person so that one must be rare. When I bought my Grafonola the motor was stripped and the tonearm and reproducer swollen. So I bought a model 50 table model, which some call the Favorite, in order to swap motors and tonearms.

Thank you for this information, marcapra. The rope motif is only on the front of the lid. It does not go around the entire lid. It seems that the model 110, from the images I have found online, have a nicer motif on the front of the lid, and the bottom, front skirt. Besides mine, I have so far not found one with the rope design on the lid.

[De Soto Frank]

Steve,

Look carefully around the perimeter of the lid, at the same level as the front rope moulding, for signs of similar moulding around the rest of the lid...