VE-9-55 "restoration"

[Swing Band Heaven]

Seems like it works well although I haven't tried putting a stack of records on it yet.

Be careful when loading it up as the the black metal base to the part of the changer that holds the records is pot metal. If it hasn't been replaced you might want to check it carefully to make sure that its not cracked or about to fall apart. Mine from a casual glance looked ok but on closer inspection was all cracked and very weak. Loading up a full load of disks might be more than it can take.

You are lucky not to need to change the record size selector gears - mine were all swollen and cracked and were stuck. At the time no one was making those replacement parts so I had a bespoke set of gears made. Charlie Weatherbee used to make them but he had stopped doing them when I approached him.

These are great machines - and the changers (as has been said above) are well worth the effort to get them working again.

S-B-H