Some VV 9-15 mysteries
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:26 pm
Hi all,
I managed to pick up a reasonably rare VV 9-15 (yep, VV, not VE) this past weekend and am in the process of sorting out the things to be fixed list. As you may know, this rather large beast has a RCA Radiola 28 on the left and a 4-spring Orthophonic phonograph on the right as you face the machine.
The radio shares the built in horn with the phonograph via a valve turned by a knob inside the phonograph compartment which shunts the sound passage to either the path that begins with the sound box and the tone arm for the phonograph or with a speaker driver attached to the related plumbing. I have (I hope, this is a first try with posting pics) attached two pics of the bit of plumbing that contains the valve.
There is a 90 degree angle where the shaft from the knob meets the shaft from the valve. You can see the shafts in the pictures, but alas they do not meet. There are supposed to be two gears which attach to these shafts via pins so configured as to mesh with each other at the 90 degree angle. Alas these gears were made of the dreaded pot metal. One is completely missing. I have the other (although it is hiding from me at the moment), but it is missing one tooth. Anybody know where I could get these gears, original or repro?
The other issue is the sound driver, which attaches to the part of the plumbing that looks a bit like a tone arm. It attaches via the same kind of twist lock slot that is used to attach a sound box to a tone arm. The machine came with 2 (count um, 2) speaker drivers. Picture of those also attached, I hope. (Haven’t gotten so far yet as to see if either actually works.) They are marked as having been supplied to Victor by RCA, so I am guessing they are of the right type. However, neither has the type of coupling that would fit onto the slotted end of the plumbing. Does anybody know if (1) these are the right type driver and (2) was there some sort of fitting that coupled the driver with the plumbing?
Tis a puzzlement.
Clay
I managed to pick up a reasonably rare VV 9-15 (yep, VV, not VE) this past weekend and am in the process of sorting out the things to be fixed list. As you may know, this rather large beast has a RCA Radiola 28 on the left and a 4-spring Orthophonic phonograph on the right as you face the machine.
The radio shares the built in horn with the phonograph via a valve turned by a knob inside the phonograph compartment which shunts the sound passage to either the path that begins with the sound box and the tone arm for the phonograph or with a speaker driver attached to the related plumbing. I have (I hope, this is a first try with posting pics) attached two pics of the bit of plumbing that contains the valve.
There is a 90 degree angle where the shaft from the knob meets the shaft from the valve. You can see the shafts in the pictures, but alas they do not meet. There are supposed to be two gears which attach to these shafts via pins so configured as to mesh with each other at the 90 degree angle. Alas these gears were made of the dreaded pot metal. One is completely missing. I have the other (although it is hiding from me at the moment), but it is missing one tooth. Anybody know where I could get these gears, original or repro?
The other issue is the sound driver, which attaches to the part of the plumbing that looks a bit like a tone arm. It attaches via the same kind of twist lock slot that is used to attach a sound box to a tone arm. The machine came with 2 (count um, 2) speaker drivers. Picture of those also attached, I hope. (Haven’t gotten so far yet as to see if either actually works.) They are marked as having been supplied to Victor by RCA, so I am guessing they are of the right type. However, neither has the type of coupling that would fit onto the slotted end of the plumbing. Does anybody know if (1) these are the right type driver and (2) was there some sort of fitting that coupled the driver with the plumbing?
Tis a puzzlement.
Clay