Cleaning the springs on my Victor VV-IX, This looks broken? Hoping for some advice
Posted: Thu May 30, 2024 10:05 pm
My Victor VV-IX phonograph has never been able to get through a whole record before slowing down, and recently it finally stopped spinning all together when i put the needle down, So i decided to take on my first cleaning project. After cleaning and greasing all the easily accessible parts just to be sure, then reading up on the topic, I determined it was likely a spring issue. Its a two spring motor, and the top one looks completely fine, but the bottom one seems to have been cut where it attaches to the rivet. I put some pictures below, This is my first time taking apart and cleaning a phonograph so I wanted to ask people smarter than I if this is a problem before I go bending and whatnot. Logically i feel like it would be fine as the bottom spring should be pushing against the rivet? but what do I know.
https://imgur.com/a/MQcfMUM
Also the grease in there was completely caked up and gummy, so i'm 99.9% sure that was the issue, I wanted to clear this issue up before re-greasing and putting her back together.
Thanks in advance for any help!!
https://imgur.com/a/MQcfMUM
Also the grease in there was completely caked up and gummy, so i'm 99.9% sure that was the issue, I wanted to clear this issue up before re-greasing and putting her back together.
Thanks in advance for any help!!