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Good luck, and have a safe trip!

Best,
Fran

FloridaClay wrote:Chuck,

Not everyone suggests moving the motor. I probably wouldn't as they are pretty securely mounted. However, if you do they are not anywhere near as delicate as you describe. These things are built like tanks. You can easily set them down without damage.

Clay

True, the motor will probably survive: it's just that removing it significantly reduces the weight of the cabinet.

You can always come prepared with a couple of cardboard boxes of appropriate size, and some newspaper for padding - and perhaps a freezer bag for the nuts and bolts…

Bill

My C-19 made it from New York to Michigan without taking the mechanism out, for what it's worth.

HisMastersVoice wrote:My C-19 made it from New York to Michigan without taking the mechanism out, for what it's worth.

My C19 made it from Minnesota to Central Europe without removing the mechanism without problem. The A series Diamond Discs and early Amberolas are another matter. The mechanisms do need to be removed for transport as others have noted.

The C-250 machine made the move 100%
successfully. Everything went as planned.
I had the checklist from all of the suggestions here, on this forum along
for reference.

That motor is bolted to 3 heavy steel brackets
with 3 large steel screws. Each bracket then
is screwed to the cabinet sides using (8)
good-sized wood screws. There are (24)
screws into the wood, total, holding that
motor in. I took one look at that, and could
see right away, that that thing is in there
very securely. Nothing to worry about.

Got machine home and moved inside, without
any damage.

Winding Pawl spring broken. Totally disassembled, cleaned, repaired winding pawl
under instruction from Shawn Borri, who walked
me through the whole works from beginning
to end, right here, in person.

Took motor and horn out and cleaned and
greased/oiled, then reassembled.

Worked on it from about 10 am, until around
7 pm, when the first record was tested.

Diamond worn slightly flat.
Will get new diamond and gaskets and
rebuild reproducer myself. Looks all
very straighforward.

Motor runs long and strong and very quietly.
Records are so-so. Some religious a few Uncle
Josh, some interesting tunes. 4 or 5 de-laminated ones.

Kind of a disappointment about the diamond, but I expected that. Diaphragm and link
are fine, needs gaskets.

Will make key to unscrew retaining ring.
I look forward to learning how to work
on DD reproducers, by simply jumping in
and doing it. Anyone have ideas or
suggestions as to whom I might contact in
regards to obtaining a NOS genuine Edison
DD diamond stylus? I prefer genuine Edison
parts!

Chuck

Congratulations, Chuck! I hope you enjoy your Chippendale for a very long time!

Fran

The real thanks for all of this goes out
to you, Fran, for tipping me off about this
machine to start with!

I started out driving this past Monday at 0800 hours, and just got back
from dropping off Shawn 107 miles away, at
his home.

Total miles driven including pizza errand
and a trip to Dewitt County Museum to look
at live telephone switching equipment, and make test recording on their ICS Edison
Standard machine comes to 720 miles.

Just got home a couple of hours ago...

The C-250 is sitting patiently in the front
room of this old house which was built
in the 1880s.

I guess those diamonds just don't last very well. Must replace once every 100 years.
Edison ought to have written that in the
machine maintenance schedule!

Chuck

Chuck wrote:The real thanks for all of this goes out to you, Fran, for tipping me off about this machine to start with!

Thank you for the kind words, Chuck.

Chuck wrote:I started out driving this past Monday at 0800 hours, and just got back from dropping off Shawn 107 miles away, at his home.

Total miles driven including pizza errand and a trip to Dewitt County Museum to look at live telephone switching equipment, and make test recording on their ICS Edison Standard machine comes to 720 miles.

Just got home a couple of hours ago...

WOW! 720 miles! But, at least you incorporated another stop in your itinerary.

Chuck wrote:I guess those diamonds just don't last very well. Must replace once every 100 years. Edison ought to have written that in the machine maintenance schedule!

Maybe we should ask for an addendum to the manual?

Fran