Subject: Re: Victrola springs

From: [email-masked]
Date: 30 Oct 1995 02:15:48 GMT

>   mac <[email-masked]> writes:

>  Does anyone know . . . where I can buy the flat 
>  spring material so I can wind new one?
>   
>  
>>>>

What size?

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 2 Nov 1995 22:26:26 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (John Angus) writes:
>mac ([email-masked]) wrote:
>: I have become the owner of an antique Victrola type record player. The spring which 
>: drive the turntable has broken, apparently at a stress point.
>: Does anyone know of a place that has replacement parts or where I can buy the flat 
>: spring material so I can wind new one?
>: -- 
>: Mac
>
Morning,
If you have no luck here you can post something on alt.horology.  Clock people
often have the spring winders ...  (I have often heard that springs from
some items like large music boxes are a "challange"; don't know about 
Victrolas)
Bob

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From: [email-masked] (Mark Kinsler )
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 20:21:58 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]> wrote: >>
mac <[email-masked]> writes: > >> Does anyone know . . . where I can buy the
flat >> spring material so I can wind new one? >> >> >>>>> > >What size? 

I haven't done this, but there are parallels to clock repair.
You'll need to make a spring winding machine.  Details are available in
any clock repair book.  You can make a clip to hold a wound spring by
bending a piece of 5/16" or so steel rod into a C of the appropriate
diameter.  More than likely, the spring will have broken at one end or the
other, in which case it can be repaired.  Let down the hardness of the
spring by heating it red and letting it cool slowly (burying the end in
sand works), and then punch or drill a new eye.  Re-assemble in reverse
order and be sure the spring is oiled. 
  The name of the group in question is rec.antiques.radio+phono.  Those 
guys can restore absolutely anything.  
                                        Mark Kinsler