CHARLESTON Sweet Georgia Brown 1927 Victor 10-50 Automatic Orthophonic Victrola Record Changer

[@Moooperator]

Excellent job showing all the features of the great machine! I feel like I went to Victrola school with this one! Thanks for all your hard work on the video!

[@manidig]

Thanks for posting this. My friend bought one of these in the 1960s(in MINT condition) for $25. Sadly he lost it in a fire. I hope you have some Tungs Tone styli for it.

[@sanfranphono]

Hello, no there is no jerk by the mechanism. The changer is slightly inclined in the cabinet, so that gravity pushes the soundbox into the first groove. The jerk you see is actually the blank rim of the record pulling the needle into the first groove.

[@Idelia412]

Sanfranphono....after all your help, I have noticed that when the arm sets down on the record it gets a gentle jerk that brings it into the first groove of the record. Not sure if this was ever designed to do it by the Victor Company, but makes every record start to play.

[@sanfranphono]

By that time Victor had the Tungstone stylus - a very thin thread of tung wire which was softer than the record - which could play several dozen records. But you are right - some of the very first machines ( the 1906 Gabel Automatic Entertainer) had a complicated mech that changed the needle each time.

[@Idelia412]

Hello, I have this machine, but never have been able to get all the replacement parts that were pot metal. I did get the beveled gears for setting for 10 or 12 inch records, but the pad the records slide on to go into the drawer is missing. Do you know anyone that has replacement parts for this machine for th pot metal parts?

[@alltheway62]

sold my lemon for 4000usd to a german collector....emg and credenza are my favorites now

[@sanfranphono]

@manidig Oh well, these are not that difficult to find. Over 10.000 were produced in a little over a year, and a good number of them have survived. The 10-50 found a good new home, I upgraded from the 1027 machine to the 1928 10-35, which you can see in some of my other videos

[@Idelia412]

Anyone know how to fix the automatic shut off on the 10-50, is it an easy fix and can you get parts to fix. I am assuming something is burned out and replacement parts are unavailable. If anyone knows let me know. Thanks

[@sanfranphono]

+Idelia412 Hello, the shut off is done by the little flipper on the lift ring. It interacts with the main switch and flips the switch off. There is a tiny screw on the flipper to adjust the fuction.

[@ClassicCabFrance]

Nice ! Does anyone know where to find pot metal parts copies ? My 10-50 needs 3 of them

[@Idelia412]

There was a guy in Florida that made parts in the past, unsure if he still makes them. His name is Charles Weatherbee and I don't have his address or phone number.

[@MarkSmith-lg7dk]

Are you still looking?

[@davidoppenheim3979]

@@MarkSmith-lg7dk George Epple in Baltimore, MD

[@TheMaxx111]

It is a changer, but it does not eject the needle? Don't you need to put in a new neele every time or destroy the record?

[@sanfranphono]

@alltheway62 exactly my point, sorry to hear that you got a lemon. However, it's all fixable, don't despair : )

[@cricketrecords]

This is an RCA Victor machine and yet there's a plate that says Wurlitzer. Was this made for Wurlitzer by RCA Victor?

[@sanfranphono]

+cricketrecords Other way around, Victor made the machine, and Wurlitzer added a coin op mechanism to it (no longer in the machine). A lot of these machines were used as early jukeboxes in 1927. You had to reload the records after 10 plays, but the 10-50 was much cheaper than anything else on the market in 1927.

[@sanfranphono]

@alltheway62 Hmm too bad that you did not put the literal elbow grease in it. I still like the 10-50 better than my Mark Xa ....

[@alltheway62]

the credenza sounds better than a 10-50 to me, the moving needlearm of the 10-50 can never be well sealed!

[@sanfranphono]

Nah, the 10-50 has a better horn than the credenza. When everything is properly sealed, it will outperform a Credenza with no problem.

[@sanfranphono]

@alltheway62 Well, I totally disagree. You just need to know what you are doing. Never base your judgment on a single, bad machine ..

[@alltheway62]

you only know how bad your machine sounds till you heard a better one

[@sanfranphono]

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