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Post by Matt Brown on Jun 19, 2009 3:27:20 GMT -5
Brought this home on Thursday - finally got her cleaned up and presentable. Still need to repair one of the feet (back right), replace the broken tone arm back bracket with a repro, and find a grille for her (the grille pictured is off of my "regular" Credenza. Spots in the pics are from the Camera - they're not on the machine. I'll be selling either this one, or my other one - if anyone is interested, let me know... Matt      |
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Post by Matt Brown on Jun 28, 2009 2:17:37 GMT -5
Perhaps someone knows the answer here..... are there different sizes of 4-door Credenza grilles?
I have one that is 17" wide - too wide for either of my Credenzas. The one that fits my other Credenza is approx 16.5" wide.
Any thoughts?
Matt
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Post by maroongem on Jun 28, 2009 11:11:06 GMT -5
WOW! That 8-30 X is stunning with the tooled leather inserts. The colors are still fairly bright.
I'm wondering if the .500 variation in width is simply due to to hand fitting in the ART shop when these were constructed. I've run into this problem when trying to fit Victor record shelves from one same model machine to another and they wouldn't fit!!!
Bill
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Post by Matt Brown on Jun 28, 2009 17:33:10 GMT -5
The 17" grille doesn't fit either of my Credenzas (the 8-30X OR the TLP) - they both need a 16.5" wide grille.
So.... I'm one grille short - I have a great-looking 17" Credenza grille, complete w/ original cloth, but nowhere to use it.....
Matt
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Post by maroongem on Jun 28, 2009 17:53:26 GMT -5
Hmmmmmmmm...Perhaps your 17" grille is for a Credenza and not an 8-30. Two different animals as the 8-30 had 4 doors and the later Credenza had two.
Bill
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Post by shellophone on Jun 28, 2009 19:31:14 GMT -5
According to Bill Edie's website, the 'Credenza' designation was first (1925) in a model intended to be sold to the public. The 8-30 designation came in mid-1926. There were 75 'demonstrator' models called 8-1 distributed to dealers about 2 months before the initial release of the 'Credenza'. www.victor-victrola.comJohn M |
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Post by maroongem on Jun 29, 2009 16:43:18 GMT -5
According to Bill Edie's website, the 'Credenza' designation was first (1925) in a model intended to be sold to the public. The 8-30 designation came in mid-1926. There were 75 'demonstrator' models called 8-1 distributed to dealers about 2 months before the initial release of the 'Credenza'. www.victor-victrola.comJohn M Yes John, you are quite correct. My error for stating that the Credenza (8-1) was the latter. A brain fart on my part as I should have known better as I had an 8-1 a few yrs ago. My point was that the 8-1 (Credenza) was 2 drs. until approx s/n 12000 and was a 1/2" shorter than the 8-30 which had 4 drs. only, so my supposition was that this is the reason for the grille width. There are subtle cabinet differences as well, most noticeable are the carvings on the top front molding. And the 8-30 TLP differs even more in this region. I have contacted other known members that own both types of machines so I'm hoping to give Matt a definitive answer on the reason of disparity regarding the grille width. Bill |
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