You're right, that Electronic Supply in Tempe, AZ has the cord for this. It's a nice reproduction of the copper-brown braided power cord. It's slightly firmer and marginally smaller than than the original, but it has the right look. To my knowledge, there are no round bakelite AC plugs (Male as well as female) being reproduced. If you're interested, I have a few NOS brown bakelite AC plugs available, which would be very close in appearance to the original, which I could sell. I also have the reproduction braided cord as well as fused plugs. You can email me at [email protected] if you're interested.
The suggestion to go with a fused plug is a good one, and if originality doesn't matter to you, I'd go with this. If you want the protection of a fused plug while keeping something like the original power cord arrangement, it's easy to make a short extension incorporating a fused plug. A dead short across the power line will also blow your circuit breaker (in your breaker panel), but something less than this probably won't. Best, Andy Baron On Feb 26, 2006, at 6:47 PM, Richard Rubin wrote: > Hi, everybody. Yesterday I picked up (literally, though I needed some > help, > since it weighs about 300 lbs.) a very unusual machine: A Victrola (or > Electrola) model VE 15-1, also known as the "Hyperion." (The latter > is, in > fact, what appears on the ID tag.) It's in really nice shape except > for two > of the six feet, which have lost some (or in one case, all) of the > wooden > pieces that make them round instead of square. Fortunately, they're > in the > back. The piece itself is a Victor electric phonograph coupled with > an RCA > radio (a Radiola 28, their top-of-the-line in 1926) and an RCA electric > speaker, built-in antenna, gold-plated hardware, Victor electric > pickup, > etc. The cabinet itself is almost five feet tall and just about four > feet > wide, walnut veneer with maple inlay, decent shape. Everything is > there > (including 8 of the 10 record albums) except for the needle cup and > the line > cord, which plugs in to a regular two-pronged AC plug in the botton of > the > cabinet. It seems to work, too, though one of the tubes -- a UX-210 -- > needs to be replaced, I believe. > > Questions: > > 1. Does anyone know anything about this unit other than what's in the > Baumbach books? Anyone out there actually have one? Anywhere I might > find > more information? I'd never even heard of the Hyperion until I found > this > one. > > 2. Does anyone know where I can get a nice repro cloth-covered line > cord > with a female two-prong adapter at one end (presumably bakelite) and a > male > plug at the other? Does Antique Electronic Supply sell these? If > not, does > anyone else? Did it even come with a line cord, or did folks just use > extension cords (as did the people from whom I bought it)? > > 3. Can anyone recommend a good carpenter who could recreate the wood > pieces > that could round out the feet? I have a couple to work from. > > 4. The Victor albums that came with this piece are of a kind I've > never > seen before -- they are made of a a brown leatherette-type material, > and > letters. Can anyone tell me anything about these? Do they have a > name or > type number? Do they ever come up on Ebay? > > As I said, I know very little about this machine other than what I've > read > in the Baumbach books, so I would appreciate any information anyone can > share, no matter how small or seemingly irrelevant. > > Thanks! > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/ >
