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For those who remember my post about fixing a vic 2 for a friend.
http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... =2&t=13512
So I am fixing an Vic II and I need a new tone arm, reproducer and spring. I figure it would cost me a few hundred for those parts.
I came across a working vv-iv today for $80.
I checked the tone arm and it fits perfectly with an exhibition on it. I can even take out and reuse the spring.
So since I am doing this as a job I would like the parts cost to be low as possible. But I kinda feel bad about it.
Would you guys strip a perfectly good cheap machine for parts?

There seems to be something wrong with the poll: I get an "invalid input" notice.

Lucius1958 wrote:There seems to be something wrong with the poll: I get an "invalid input" notice.

same here...

With a needle in the Exhibition, does it hit the spindle on the Vic II? Jerry

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Jerry B. wrote:With a needle in the Exhibition, does it hit the spindle on the Vic II? Jerry

well I have no idea what's wrong with the poll.
I'm not sure what you mean?
I'm still waiting for a pin but it works.

Taking couple key part off a complete and working machine which renders it incomplete and not working only to be parted out? Hmmmmm.... No look for parts and keep the machine. Isn't this the same thing that we complain about regarding eBay sellers?

With the correct length tone arm the needle with touch or be very very close to the spindle. That would be an indication of a correct tone arm. Jerry

If both machines were my own and I was keeping the Vic II, I would take the arm from the supposedly "less desirable" VV IV and use it. I would then patiently wait until another part came along.
I would do this because I would be impatient to see the open horn machine working.

Well, let's do the math. Victor Sold more than a half-million Victrola IV machines. They are abundant. The Victor II on the other hand is more than an order of magnitude scarcer. No brainer here. Fix your Victror II and keep the cabinet and other parts from the Victrola IV. You will doubtless eventually find a Victrola IV in awful condition to serve as a parts donor to get THAT machine working, also. Of course if the Victrola in question were a Type M or Type A with the metal grille then I'd preserve it strictly as-is, but any later machine is so common as to be of negligable historic value, unless it is extremely late, say a 1925 production machine with the "T" shaped tone arm end, or something with a special order finish.