I recently took out & replaced a 1907 door frame, for a similar reason. It
was much easier to remove a few lengths of trim than to destroy a cabinet,
trust me. Once that Victrola comes apart, it's doomed. You will be
basically SMASHING it to bits. No hope of re-assembly.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Houston" <[email protected]>
]
I suppose this will be a stupid question, but the Victrola would have to
been carried in the basement some time ago. It would surely have been in
the main floors of the house at one time. From the way you describe, the
door must have been installed in the place after the Victrola was in the
basement.
So, it appears that even to get it from the basement into the main floor
of
the house, it has to pass through that narrow door casing. Well, H--l,
what's so hard about carefully pulling the door casing apart, then
reassembling it, after the Vic is out? I'm sure that the obstacle is the
place's owner. Dismantling a Victrola cabinet would do a lot of damage to
[Original Message]
From: Ron L'Herault <[email protected]>
Subject: [Phono-L] Entombed Victrola
A friend has turned up an upright Victrola in the basement of a house
being
sold. The current owners of the house do not want the Victrola, or were
unwilling to take it out of the basement, which is where it was when the
bought the house. The problem is that in order to get the Victrola out,
one
has to remove the door frame or dismantle the case of the Victrola.
How hard is it to take a Victrola case apart? They are glued with hide
glue
and screwed together also, right? Does one loosen hide glue with a hair
dryer, water, steam or what?
Ron L
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