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Posted: **Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:55 pm**

A while back in a thread about restoring a Victrola that had no motor, I mentioned that I had a photocopy of a photocopy of Harold Braker's Victor-Victrola Motor Identification (and Repair Information). For some reason this excellent research has been largely unknown in the collecting community, probably because 14 years has passed since it was published for the US collector community. I subsequently contacted Mr. Braker and he graciously assented to allowing his guide to be posted to this website so that the greater collecting community may have ready access to this information. I had originally planned to have this posted about May 1, but because of travel, I was unable to intercept Mr. Braker's envelope in the mail until I was home briefly yesterday. So, here is Mr. Braker's guide in pdf format. Better late than never! Thank you, Mr. Braker! Enjoy, you all!

THE GUIDE IS IN TWO POSTS -- ONE OF TEN PAGES, ONE OF NINE PAGES FOR A TOTAL OF NINETEEN PAGES

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Posted: **Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:05 pm**

This is the last nine pages:

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Posted: **Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:10 pm**

John,

I stitched the files together into a single file.

Posted: **Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:23 pm**

Awesome, Brad! Do my original posts need to be merged or changed?

Posted: **Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:33 pm**

Having some issues with file size. Stand by

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2010 7:40 am**

Having some problem with file size. It will probably end up in 3 or 4 files.

Mordeth, what is the file size limitation for the board? Can we increase it to 20M?

UPDATE: Stitching the files together was easy, getting them uploaded to the board was a real pain in the a$$.

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:34 am**

Great information!! Thanks John and Brad for getting this and compiling it into manageable files.

Steve

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:57 am**

Great Information, Thank You for making the available:-)

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:40 pm**

Harold lives very close to me.About 5 miles.He has not been very active in this stuff for awhile.

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:49 pm**

When I spoke with him on the telephone, he told me that his latest area of interest is Higham friction amplifiers (as on the Columbia Type BC Graphophones) and that he was producing reproduction parts to rebuild them. Said he has learned quite a bit about their operation and maintenance.

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