Norman, I appreciate your suggestion which was substantially better than mine.
Styli should be cleaned on a regular basis, a soft toothbrush works nicely. I have seen reproducers before where the stylus had actually disappeared underneath wax and debris. Steve > > Chris, These holes look indeed different than the ones I used to find > sometimes on black wax cylinders. The usual holes are, to what I was to > figure out, caused by the collapse of the wax surface when tiny bubbles > are underneath it. You can see this sometimes on broken black wax > cylinders, both 2-minute and 4-minutes. > The holes on your cylinder do not have an uncommon size though. It's > just the large group of them what looks suspicious. A regular stylus > should even be able to play over such an area, especially when you are > using a Model B reproducer which has a bullet sapphire instead of the > doorknob of a C. > As Steven pointed out, candle wax could actually do but it can be sticky > and, as a worst case, can mess up your stylus that has to cleaned then. > I had good success with filling comparable holes with modelling wax (for > wood restoration) with a wooden toothpick. It takes a lot of time and > you should have the cylinder on the mandrel to give it a better support > while applying the wax. > > Norman > > > Chris Kocsis wrote: > > I just got a cylinder I won on eBay (Edison 9100, Bob Roberts' > > Everybody Works But Father) to replace mine that cracked. It was > > advertised as in excellent + condition, and as I pulled it out of its > > sleeve it looked like it was. But as I turned it to examine it > > closely, I found a strange, almost patterned number of deep circular > > pits among the grooves. I'm afraid to play it in case the stylus > > catches in these holes and gets ripped out. I'm attaching a picture. > > > > I would appreciate advice (as well as any information on how these > > holes could have formed -- I'm not an experienced collector, but I've > > never seen anything like them before). > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Chris > > -------------- ATTACHMENT -------------- > > **An Attachment Was Scrubbed** > > Name: 9100 holes.jpg > > Type: image/jpeg > > Size: 52776 bytes > > URL: > > <http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20090812/f397cb3b/attachment.jpg> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Phono-L mailing list > > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
