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Dear Fran,

Not the easiest thing to photograph without taking the top plate to bits but I think you should be able to make out that the model is shown simply as "X" which makes sense given the low serial number(630).

Hope this helps

TW-W

Wagnerian wrote:Dear Fran,

Not the easiest thing to photograph without taking the top plate to bits but I think you should be able to make out that the model is shown simply as "X" which makes sense given the low serial number(630).

Hope this helps

TW-W

Amberola X 006.jpg

Thanks Tim, as I suspected, your dataplate clearly shows that yours is not a model "D-X" but an "X"; hence the use of the earlier Gem motor.

The latter and final iteration was the model D-X. It was produced using the much stronger and reliable Fireside motor as a solution to the many problems the company had realized with the weaker Gem motor used with the earlier version, known simply as the "X".

I have not seen an example of an X using the Fireside motor, and until we see an original example using the combination clearly marked X on the dataplate coupled with a Fireside type motor, we should not assume there ever was such an example.

Bottom line: the D-X was not produced with a Gem type motor.

Fran

HEY TIM,
YOUR MACHINE HAD A FIRESIDE MOTOR FOR SURE AND YOU CAN EASILY TELL BY THE CRANK,CRANK SHAFT,HOLE ON THE SIDE OF THE CABINET AND MOTOR FRAME MOUNT.....IF YOU NEED A FIRESIDE MOTOR JUST EMAIL ME.
THANKS,
MARK

Dear Mark and Fran,

Apologies, I've been getting everybody confused, myself included, by my mis-reading of Briankeith's original post of 2nd October. He posed the question did Edison ever put a Gem motor in a "DX" and I mis-read that as an "X".

Frow is quite clear that those machines designated "DX" utilised a Fireside-type motor, the other earlier machines designated simply as "X" used a Gem-type motor, such as the one I possess.

Apologies all round for the confusion.

Regards

Tim W-W

I would be interested in buying your underpowered X machine Doug if you really never play it and really dis-like it Seriously

I have an Amberola X with the Gem-ish motor; it runs through entire records, but is rather noisy. What makes it odd, I think: it has no veneer, being made entirely of solid oak boards. My Amberola DX has a fine cabinet, and runs so silently that I must stick my ear under the lid just to hear it going. My Amberola V runs perfectly, absolutely dead-on steady & sounds wonderful. The first line of Amberolas were produced for such a short time, and in so few numbers, that I think most are worth keeping in one's collection.