Columbia made a special sapphire stylus for their 2&4 minute reproducers. It was a sapphire rod, rather like the concept of the tungstone wire. The diameter was small enough to fit properly in the 4 minute groove. Like the wire, the rod did not change shape during it's useful life until it wore completely down. The problem, of course, is that it is too small to work properly with 2 minute wax records, and it will gouge them. But Columbia didn't care if you wore out your Edison records on it because Columbia was selling only celluloid records by that time :o)
Greg Bogantz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Medved" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l at oldcrank.org> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 8:39 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Columbia no. 5 reproducer repair for Columbia AO > What type of cylinder stylus did Columbia make beside the ball stylus? > > Steve > > > >> From: Zonophone2006 at aol.com> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 16:09:53 -0400> To: >> phono-l at oldcrank.org> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Columbia no. 5 reproducer >> repair for Columbia AO> > hi ray et al> on mine i cant tell you > i still >> need to find an appropriate stylus> mine did not come with one> > > > In >> a message dated 9/5/2008 11:19:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > >> wilenzick at bellsouth.net writes:> > I have an AO, but not an AW. I have >> been told that the sound quality of the > > AW reproducer is inferior to >> that of the AO, so why would anyone want to > convert the machines. Is >> that true?> > Ray> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: >> <Zonophone2006 at aol.com>> To: <phono-l at oldcrank.org>> Sent: Friday, >> September 05, 2008 10:30 AM> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Columbia no. 5 >> reproducer repair for Columbia AO> > > > HI> > I have an ao and an aow> > >> the reproducer and the neck it sits on are totally different on these> > >> so be careful in trying to convert one> >> >> > In a message dated >> 9/3/2008 4:3 > 7:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,> > valecnik57-purc at yahoo.com writes:> >> > > I'm looking for recommendations regarding someone who could expertly > > > repair> > the reproducer on my Columbia AO. It's the floating type, a no. > 5, I > > believe> > although it is not marked in any way. Would also be > interested in the> > conversion kit to install the model 8 reproducer, > which essentially > > converts an> > AO to an AW.> >> > Thanks,> > Bruce> > >> >> >> >> >> > -> > _______________________________________________> > > Phono-L mailing list> > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org> >> >> >> >> >> > > **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your > > > travel> > deal here.> > > (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)> > > _______________________________________________> > Phono-L mailing list> > > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org> > > > > > _______________________________________________> Phono-L mailing list> > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org> > > > > > ************** > Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, > plus the > latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. > > (http://www.stylelist.com/trends?ncid=aolsty00050000000014)> > _______________________________________________> Phono-L mailing list> > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
