For Sale: VE 8-60 E in Roseburg, Or $550

[Garret]

Very cool!

You know that the arm to the electric pickup is often made of pot metal, I hope? If it's original, treat it very gently!

Garret

[broso252]

Impressive! Sounds great. Did you have to rebuild or otherwise service the horseshoe magnet driver that connects to the speaker? I don't doubt that the pickup needed a rebuild.

Thanks
I sent both the magnetic driver and the pickup to George Epple to be serviced. I had never rebuilt either before and figured that the examples as nice as these should be rebuilt by a professional.
I did try the magnetic driver with a modern amplifier hooked up to the arm of my 8-30 credenza before it was sent. It sounded much better than I expected but you couldn't play it at a decent volume without it distorting and rattling. If you wanted to hear it well you had to sit in front of the horn. Afterward I got it back I never tested it on the same amp to determine if the problem was due to the driver or the impedance mismatch with the modern amp but when hooked up to the tomcat amp of the 8-60 it could play quite loud without distortion.
There's a lot more to the story but I'll leave it for the full write up so this comment doesn't turn into a novella.

[broso252]

Very cool!

You know that the arm to the electric pickup is often made of pot metal, I hope? If it's original, treat it very gently!

Garret

Thanks
The electric pickup arm is a potmetal original. I try to be very careful with it although getting the magnetic pickup off of it for the first time took more force than I was comfortable with.
Do you know of any original arms that aren't potmetal? I've heard about Borgias with brass sound boxes and the victor data book says some Boriga IIs shipped in late 1925 so maybe its possible?