Maybe they figured they could use an electric pump to run water into the pipe T-fitting to wash the signal path for the cleanest sound possible. Obviously the hole was cut to drain into a bucket. Did you get the bucket in the deal? An eBay seller told me those Credenza buckets are worth a pantload. ;-)
Watch out, friends, as dumb as those folks were for committing these crimes against phonography, there are a lot more of them than there are of us. Good luck with the restore, Mark! Best, Robert > -----Original Message----- mark french > Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 4:20 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Phono-L] WTD: Grille for 4-door Credenza > > > I just picked up a decent Victrola Credenza 4-door that I've started to fix > up, the one important thing it's missing is the entire horn grille and > cloth. Condition of finish and/or cloth not important, I can refinish it > and/or put new cloth in it. Thanks! > > Side notes - this machine has some WEIRD mods. For example, eons ago > somebody tapped into the horn elbow and added an iron pipe T-fitting. (??) > But both ends of it are just open to air, I'll have to remove that and put > in a plug, talk about ruining the bass! And there's a 6-inch hole cut into > the lower section of the horn wood, like a speaker had been mounted there > with three screws, or something. Plus an additional a/c wire was added to > the motor connector socket, but whatever it was hooked to is gone. Anybody > have any ideas of what they were doing, or trying to do, with this thing? I > assume at one time there was a hose connected to that fitting, for what I > have NO idea. The vent hole cover near it is missing, maybe that is where > the hose or pipe exited. Pretty sure I can fix all this stuff fortunately. > > Mark French > My Victrolas: > VV-210 > 10-50 > Credenza > VV-XVII > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
