Need help

[Jerry B.]

Used needles... Unless you are sure they are new, throw them away. A new needle should be only used for one maybe two sides of a record and then tossed. If you are unsure, look at them with a magnifying glass. If you see a flat spot, the need is used and should be discarded.
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78's... Unless the records are something really unusual, they are worth very little. We have our OTAPS phono sale every year. One year I took a stack of 78's about a foot high and priced them at 25 cents each or 6 for a dollar. At the end of the day my stack had gone down about three inches. I really wanted to get rid of the records so at the end of the day I went around the show and stopped at each of my phono friend's tables. I asked how the sale went for them and while we visited, I casually left a stack of records on their table. After visiting with four or five of my friends, my records were gone! My mistake was boasting to these same people about my method of getting rid of unwanted records. When I packed up after the following years sale, I not only had junk records but also broken pot metal tone arms, broken springs, and a whole host of assorted pieces of phono junk. I learned my lesson... now I am sneakier and keep my mouth shut!
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Jerry Blais

[Greenhorn]

Hope this works....here goes

[Greenhorn]

It worked...holy cow....that was scary!

Let me know what kind of pictures you need.

[phonogfp]

Nice work, Greenhorn!

Nice Victor III too. The tone arm's gooseneck that holds the sound box has been inserted backwards, so you might want to remove the threaded plug, remove the gooseneck, and reassemble it so the sound box faces the crank. (You do have the crank too, don't you?) This will allow the needle to play the records at the correct angle.

That's a decent Tea Tray Company horn as well - it adds interest to the machine. Why didn't a Victor like this ever pop up in MY family?!

George P.

[Greenhorn]

Thanks...I'm pretty proud of myself I've got the cranker- I took it out long ago so the grandkids wouldn't harm anything.

As far as the thing in backwards..I have no idea what a gooseneck, tonebox, and soundbox is. I'm reluctant to touch anything in fear of messing something up. Can you maybe post a pic or 2 to show me what those things are.

Those things must have been on backwards for quite a while I suppose....I think I took the horn off once long ago during a move into another house...maybe that was it...Don't know.

Thanks for your, and everyone's thoughful advice. If you can post a pic or 2 I will try to make the adjustments. Will I goof it up though? Rick

[phonojim]

Nice looking machine. I love that green horn (no pun intended. It is true that a lineup of Victors and Edisons with their stock black horns can become rather boring; no color at all. When I collected postwar Lionel trains, I only had a couple of steam engines because they were all black and all looked the same from any distance, whereas the diesels added a lot of color to my layout.
Great picture too. I'm 66, have been on this board for a couple of years and I just posted my first pictures a few weeks ago.
I do feel that if you have any interest at all in this machine you should think carefully about whether or not you sell it. It is a particularly attractive example and well preserved.


NOTE TO ADMINISTRATOR: There is another copy of this message in cyberspace awaiting your approval because I thought I was signed in but wasn't. Just trash that one. Thanks.

Jim

[JohnM]

Thanks...I'm pretty proud of myself I've got the cranker- I took it out long ago so the grandkids wouldn't harm anything.

As far as the thing in backwards..I have no idea what a gooseneck, tonebox, and soundbox is. I'm reluctant to touch anything in fear of messing something up. Can you maybe post a pic or 2 to show me what those things are.

Those things must have been on backwards for quite a while I suppose....I think I took the horn off once long ago during a move into another house...maybe that was it...Don't know.

Thanks for your, and everyone's thoughful advice. If you can post a pic or 2 I will try to make the adjustments. Will I goof it up though? Rick

The round part with the needle stuck in it is the sound box or reproducer. It twists slightly on the bent metal tube that is called the gooseneck, when you twist it, it will bayonet off the gooseneck -- a metal pin fits into an L-shaped slot to secure it. The gooseneck is secured to the taper tube with a cap that has a wide, shallow slot in the end just right for a penny to fit in to use
in place of a screwdriver. Remove the cap, remove the gooseneck, reinsert it into the opposite side of the tapertube, replace the cap, replace the reproducer onto the gooseneck by aligning the pin on the reproducer with the L-shaped slot in the gooseneck. Bwiggle the reproducer into place and twist it into position. Done!

[gramophone78]

Rick,you can use this pic as a guide regarding the "goose neck". Now that you can post pics, you can on post it in the "Yankee Trader" and try Jerry's idea.

[Greenhorn]

I've got the goosneck to orient properly per the picture....however, the little "L" slot on the gooseneck then points skyward and then when I orient the little alignment pin within the sound box the needle points straight in the air. I will post a picture of it. Greenhorn

[Greenhorn]

Any suggestions. I also cleaned up the metal part of the horn near the gooseneck to show the condition of the metal. That's why it's shiny