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Hi all. Has anyone discovered a firm they can recommend that can take a sad sack pot metal phonograph part and fabricate a new one out of aluminum or brass at a reasonalbe cost?

Clay

Ken Danckaert. As of a couple years ago, I was still able to reach him at: [email protected]. The guy can fix just about anything, and if he can't, he can farm it out. Not sure if the email still works, but give it a try. Remember, if there are issues with the original part in terms of swelling, and a pattern can't easily be made for it, your cost is going to go up.

Best,

GDG

Not sure which part you mean. The sound box? The tone arm support bracket?

Hi Ortho Fan,

Thanks for the heads up on the duplicate posts. Not sure how that happended. Scrubbed them.

No, the parts I am concerned about at the moment are much less common things on my VV 9-15; a large potmetal wheel used to rotate the internal loop antenna on the Radiola 28 has swollen and the antenna will no longer turn, there are some shot potmetal miter gears in the train that operates the valve that shifts the sound path between the phonograph and the radio (see the thread at http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... f=2&t=5966), and there is a potmetal coupling where sections of the internal horn join that is in not too good a shape.

Clay

Hi Clay:

Thanks for clearing that up. For some reason, I got your post mixed up with another one. In any event, I edited my comment above so it wouldn't cause more confusion.

Good luck with the parts. From the looks of it, the 9-15 uses the same size horn as the VV-8-4, so the results will be well worth your trouble.

If you do get some recastings of the half moon shaped antennae gear for the radioloa 28 then I would be interested in getting one too. Mine has crumbled and even sticking it together isn't any good because it has swollen and distored and won't fit. I think I also have a few of the teeth missing as well.

S-B-H