Steve, I have to kindly disagree with your methodology. I would never enlarge a completely good carriage because it then is out of tolerance for perfectly good reproducers. Why make two wrongs? It is very simple to file material off a reproducer to make it fit! The odds are very great that Al's reproducer is swelled and the carriage is fine. I know this because I have worked on hundreds of Edisons going back to 1974. What if Al decides to upgrade or sell the machine and keep the reproducer? Now he has a machine with a cobbled carriage to sell.
Steve Andersen On Jun 4, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Steven Medved wrote: > Hi Al, > > Yes there is. Some carriages have been enlarged slightly by owners > cleaning rust or whatever. On my large carriages I intentionally > enlarged them a bit so diamond B's that are slightly swelled will > fit, I find it better to do this than to remove the nickel plating > from the pot metal reproducers. Of my four large carriages one was > enlarged and three were original size. I enlarged two of them and > kept one original that way slightly swelled reproducers will fit. > The difference is not visible to the eye, but it can be enough for > some reproducers to fit. > > Does your O have the nickel plating on the part that fits into the > carriage? If so and it almost fits I recommend enlarging the > carriage. If it has already been worked on you can have it > machined, John Nagy does excellent work. On my carriages I used a > Dremel tool to enlarge them. > > > Steve > > > >> I bought an O reproducer that is pot metal. The seller said that it >> has > "great sound". My problem is that it will not fit in the >> carriage on my > Triumph.> It goes down part way and that's it. Is >> it possible that there is that much > of a difference between two >> carriages?> thanks,> Al > > >> _______________________________________________> Phono-L mailing >> list> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
