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Jun 13, 2019 · The first main issue when opening the motor of my HMV 109 was to install a new spring barrell hook belonging to the upper main spring, since this was totally absent. Looking around my garage room I was able to find an old window hinge in stainless steel.
Nov 29, 2020 · Here's the last guest added to my sample of acoustic gramophones: an HMV-109, the only internal horn machine I own apart from the portables. Due to overall ignorance and lack of specific documentation (still chasing a copy of "His Master's Gramophone" book without luck), some features of this model are either unknown to me or obscure.
May 13, 2022 · Re: My HMV 109. Picked up the motor from Michael this afternoon, a spring was broken and the drum gummed up as if solid. Repaired and now it runs as smooth as, as... as... a gramophone. He replaced the hard rubber in the soundbox and I picked up 100 needles, the hard ones that last for up to ten sides.
Ah, but the motor in post #26 is not the motor from the HMV 109 that is the subject of the thread. I think that motor was posted just to show a bit of ingenuity! Barry
This HMV gramophone is a model 109 and is in full working order. The model is of the late 1920's: it was advertised in the 1928-1929 company brochure (with the oak model costing £10-10-0d and the mahogany costing £12-0-0d).
The gramophone turned out to be an Electrola model 109, identical to the HMV Gramophone model 109 but with the Electrola label instead of 'Nipper'! The Gramophone Company, UK founded Electrola in May 1925 as German subsidiary.
Aug 26, 2019 · Many older HMVs that have not had their engines rebuilt in a shop where the engine block is “boiled” may suffer from overheating problems. This is the result of lots of rust scale and debris in the engine water jacket.
