HMV RECORD CABINET TUNE CARDS

[pianola]

The lovely HMV record cabinet with 100 trigger operated slots are reasonably common, but most are missing the door cards or they have been written on. I have available a few lovely reproductions on thick card to fit the slot in the door. I am offering one pair (1 to 50 and 51 to 100) for £30 and it’s buy one set, and get another free. They are perfect copies and aged to look 100 yers old.

[Steve]

Not too difficult to do if you have access to a photo-copier and / or scanner / printer. I recall using some light oak stain to get my cards exactly the right colour.

Your cabinet would seriously benefit from the dividers being refreshed to be rid of all the rust stains, now that you've got fresh cards in the doors. I've done 2 HMV cabinets before and retain the FC5 (which matches a 203) in my collection. You have to remove every one of the bars and de-rust them. I followed this with a coat of white spray paint to prevent anything leaching through, before re-papering the edge of 100 dividers. It's not a job for the impatient!

[poodling around]

Not too difficult to do if you have access to a photo-copier and / or scanner / printer. I recall using some light oak stain to get my cards exactly the right colour.

Your cabinet would seriously benefit from the dividers being refreshed to be rid of all the rust stains, now that you've got fresh cards in the doors. I've done 2 HMV cabinets before and retain the FC5 (which matches a 203) in my collection. You have to remove every one of the bars and de-rust them. I followed this with a coat of white spray paint to prevent anything leaching through, before re-papering the edge of 100 dividers. It's not a job for the impatient!

'light oak stain' ? Wasn't tea used in the 'old days' ?

[Steve]

Not too difficult to do if you have access to a photo-copier and / or scanner / printer. I recall using some light oak stain to get my cards exactly the right colour.

Your cabinet would seriously benefit from the dividers being refreshed to be rid of all the rust stains, now that you've got fresh cards in the doors. I've done 2 HMV cabinets before and retain the FC5 (which matches a 203) in my collection. You have to remove every one of the bars and de-rust them. I followed this with a coat of white spray paint to prevent anything leaching through, before re-papering the edge of 100 dividers. It's not a job for the impatient!

'light oak stain' ? Wasn't tea used in the 'old days' ?

Tea involves the use of water which wrinkles paper and card. The stain was an oil based one so with the solvent it evaporates very quickly and the card dries perfectly flat.

With that said, can we in the glorious nanny state of Britain even get our hands on anything oil based now? Most varnishes are water based; safe for an idiot to drink, maybe, but practically useless on timber!

[poodling around]

Not too difficult to do if you have access to a photo-copier and / or scanner / printer. I recall using some light oak stain to get my cards exactly the right colour.

Your cabinet would seriously benefit from the dividers being refreshed to be rid of all the rust stains, now that you've got fresh cards in the doors. I've done 2 HMV cabinets before and retain the FC5 (which matches a 203) in my collection. You have to remove every one of the bars and de-rust them. I followed this with a coat of white spray paint to prevent anything leaching through, before re-papering the edge of 100 dividers. It's not a job for the impatient!

'light oak stain' ? Wasn't tea used in the 'old days' ?

Tea involves the use of water which wrinkles paper and card. The stain was an oil based one so with the solvent it evaporates very quickly and the card dries perfectly flat.

With that said, can we in the glorious nanny state of Britain even get our hands on anything oil based now? Most varnishes are water based; safe for an idiot to drink, maybe, but practically useless on timber!

Yeah, I knew the writing was on the wall when they removed the arsenic.