Brilliant guide! Extremely generous of you to share this awesome information! Question: what on earth is the behemoth behind you ever used for in a gramophone repair shop? I could imagine this being essential in an car engine repair or machining shop but I can't think why a gramophone person would ever need it.
That is a milling machine, and I use it to precisely drill out material where I need high precision and tight tolerances such as when I have to drill out a shaft.
@@1974hurt Thank you for the reply. Maybe you'll be able to make one in the future, if it is worth showing the process. It is a curiosity seeing such machines operating on flimsy sound reproduction devices. The sound can be turned down or off completely in video editing. The point of course is that the milling machine is the undisputed queen of the machining shop.
I restored a VV-VI that I found at a yard sale. It is my first phonograph. Your tips have been helpful. It was a fun process. I have found I really enjoy early 1900s Hawaiian guitar music. Anyways, I used the green grease on the spring barrel. If you had to guess, how many years do you think until I should worry about needing to clean the assembly and reapply grease, or is a rule of thumb just to listen to what the machine is telling me, for noises and whatnot?
If you rebuilt the motor taking everything apart and cleaning it all and then oiling it every year, you’ll never need to take it apart and add green grease in your lifetime
Thanks for the GREAT information!!!!
Excellent! Great information
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Brilliant guide! Extremely generous of you to share this awesome information! Question: what on earth is the behemoth behind you ever used for in a gramophone repair shop? I could imagine this being essential in an car engine repair or machining shop but I can't think why a gramophone person would ever need it.
That is a milling machine, and I use it to precisely drill out material where I need high precision and tight tolerances such as when I have to drill out a shaft.
@@1974hurt Quite an impressive milling machine it is. Have you any videos with in action?
@ no, it’s like a huge drill press and can be quite noisy
@@1974hurt Thank you for the reply. Maybe you'll be able to make one in the future, if it is worth showing the process. It is a curiosity seeing such machines operating on flimsy sound reproduction devices. The sound can be turned down or off completely in video editing. The point of course is that the milling machine is the undisputed queen of the machining shop.
@@Stelios.Posantzis and the lathe is the king…
I restored a VV-VI that I found at a yard sale. It is my first phonograph. Your tips have been helpful. It was a fun process. I have found I really enjoy early 1900s Hawaiian guitar music. Anyways, I used the green grease on the spring barrel. If you had to guess, how many years do you think until I should worry about needing to clean the assembly and reapply grease, or is a rule of thumb just to listen to what the machine is telling me, for noises and whatnot?
If you rebuilt the motor taking everything apart and cleaning it all and then oiling it every year, you’ll never need to take it apart and add green grease in your lifetime
@ That is what I did. Good to know! I guess I’ll leave that for the next guy in 100 years haha. Thank you sir. Take care.
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@@1974hurt Congrats!