Thats great I'm glad to hear that. Well I'm off to the cottage to play my Amberola for my mother in law's birthday and I hope it dosent rain. I have to play it ant gonna rain no more by Weddell hall for good luck Thanks everyone for your help and maybe someday I can turn my questions into answers for someone else.
>From: Dennis Back <[email protected]> >Reply-To: Antique Phonograph List <[email protected]> >To: Antique Phonograph List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Cleaning blue amberol records (MOISTURE comment) >Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 08:05:00 -0700 (PDT) > > > >--- Peter Fraser wrote: > > .... be sure to not allow any > > moisture to > > contact the plaster core..... > >This is very true. That being said, I will share this >moisture story with you. > >In 1992, my house (Florida) was hit rather hard by >Hurricane Andrew. My collection room was in shambles >from the roof covering being blown off. I had some >Blue Amberol cylinders (some good titles) inside a >cylinder cabinet in drawers. They were standing in >plastic boxes inside cabinet. I thought they were >safe. A few days after trying to salvage what I could >all over my house, I looked inside the cabinet which >as I said, I thought would be safe. Water had come >down into the cabinet and the cylinders were sitting >in FOUR INCHES of water. :-) > >I took the cylinders out and let them dry out inside >my house (where I could find a dry place). A few >weeks later I tried them and they fit the mandrel and >played perfectly. I looked up and said, "Thanks, Mr. >Edison!" > >NOTE: do not try this at home. :-) > >Dennis > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >[email protected] > >Phono-L Archive >http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > >Support Phono-L >http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank _________________________________________________________________ Play Q6 for your chance to WIN great prizes. http://q6trivia.imagine-live.com/enca/landing
