Edison B-19 Rescue

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Re: Edison B-19 Rescue

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I am curious, which machines are more common the rouge (reddish color) or Natural (Blonde) color B-19 Chalet?

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Re: Edison B-19 Rescue

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Wow!! You did a great job! The B-19 is just a nice size restoration project to take on.
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Re: Edison B-19 Rescue

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Victrolacollector wrote:I am curious, which machines are more common the rouge (reddish color) or Natural (Blonde) color B-19 Chalet?
I find the rouge to be much more common than the "naturel". I jokingly refer to them as "fake mahogany" and "fake pine" :D

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dutchman wrote:A while back I bought this B-19 off Ebay. It was in really bad shape and came out of the box in several pieces. :D Looking at the sellers photos it was in bad shape and just what I was looking for to help pass the winter months. All the joints were loose, most of the top veneer missing, side veneer flapping in the wind, the top of the rear frame was broken off, grille missing, large section of the lid broken off, etc etc. I love rescuing these machines. here are a few pics of its rescue. I got a grille from Gramps treasures. :)
Funny, Dutchman: I was just re-aquainting myself with this thread and noticed this picture in your first post!
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Coincidence, or an indication of original factory finish troubles?

This is a photo of mine, showing a very similar defect:
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Re: Edison B-19 Rescue

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That was me slopping the stripper on the lid. :lol: Cheers

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Re: Edison B-19 Rescue

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What is your address so I can start shipping you some machines to restore? And PS: Gramp's Treasures has made me many grills even on machines he has never heard of or seen. Amazing work :)

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Re: Edison B-19 Rescue

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dutchman wrote:That was me slopping the stripper on the lid. :lol: Cheers

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Sorry, but after reading that, all I can think of is Archie Campbell's story of RinderCella who went to the bancy fall, met the pransome hince and then slopped her dripper... :lol:

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Re: Edison B-19 Rescue

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:lol: :lol:

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Re: Edison B-19 Rescue

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briankeith wrote:What is your address so I can start shipping you some machines to restore? And PS: Gramp's Treasures has made me many grills even on machines he has never heard of or seen. Amazing work :)
Gramp's Treasures - a man of few words - put a request in for this grill and didn't hear a peep until the grill arrived. :D Really nice work. I have a 1B cabinet sitting in the shed which needs a grill. The cabinet was given to me after the motor and reproducer were stolen out of it. Who ever took the parts took the time to punch out the center of the grill. The rest of the cabinet is there. Thought about restoring it but haven't seen a motor for this in years. :cry: Cheers

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Re: Edison B-19 Rescue

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I'm a little late responding to the thread. Really nice work. You took a machine from the "dead" and made it into something nice and beautiful. Great job and well done.
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