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Thanks guys for your help. Can anyone please give me George Vollema's contact details?

Steve

Here's George's website:

http://www.victroladoctor.com/

Let us know how it goes!
Bob

Thanks, Bob.

I've already made contact with George Vollema and hopefully he can supply the above parts and has promised to get back to me with prices in the next day or two. Exciting stuff!
Now I've got little excuse left to delay working on the rest of the restoration project!
Cheers, Steve

Good luck, Steve! I really love my Schoolhouse machine, they're just so unique. I'd love to see some photos of your project if you wouldn't mind posting some!

Sean

Will do when I can, Sean.

Bob, can you help again please? George is asking me for those measurements in inches before he can check his stock for a comparable item. I sent him to this thread so he can hopefully identify the part so I reckon if the annotated photographs were dimensioned in inches, that hopefully should help him to seek out what's needed.

Thanks

Steve

Sure, Steve, here are a few of the measurements in inches:
Lower support length total (138 mm shown) 5 ½"
Width of upper support piece (30 mm shown) 1 ¼"
Width of lower support (15 mm ) 10/16"

Any more can be calculated simply by using a ruler with inches/metric markings, and a pencil and paper.
As mentioned in the earlier posts, the VV-IX support should work, provided the lower support piece can be flipped over and re-fastened. Unmodified, the VV-IX support, designed for use on the right side, would have the catch tooth in the wrong position if used on your Schoolhouse's left cabinet side.
Hope this helps, and let us know how it goes!
Bob

Thanks Bob, I copied and pasted the above into an email to George Vollema. Hopefully with the photos above, that should be enough for him to identify the part.

One further question I have is regarding the pull knob for the sliding shelf. What does it look like and how is it fixed to the thin edge of the shelf? Surely it can't be bolted in place from the back?

Regards

Steve

Hello again Steve:

The knob has wood screw threads that go into the hole in the front of the tray.
It looks to be nickle-plated brass.
I've attacted a picture of the knob with measurements: This knob might've been designed just for this machine; its not similar to the common victrola knobs.
There are lots of websites that offer vintage-look hardware, and I'd bet you could find something suitable if an original is unavailable.
Good luck!
Bob

The knob is identical to the knob on the slide and the rear door of dome-top VTLAs and L-door XVIs as well, only nickel-plated instead of gold-plated. But that itself is an uncommon item, as I have a VTLA lacking the rear knob for the nearly 30 years I have had it. A recent ebay auction win had two such knobs on the way to me, but they appear to have been lost in the mail by now, sadly.

Thanks Bob for the pictures of the handle. Yes, I've already discussed this with George Vollema and it appears that all the handles currently available have internal threads and are not the screw-in type as posted above by you. This appears to be borne out by what Phono-Mark has also said.

I can't see an easy way of utilizing the internal threaded handles with that thin shelf edge, so maybe I ought to look elsewhere outside of the phono world?

Thanks again, guys, and I'll let you know how I get on!

Steve