Hi Bruce, No I did not intend to try to jury-rig the reproducer to anything else. My idea was that the reproducer does work, and from experience with the cylinder Edisons, realize that reproducers are of value...since they seem to fall apart. :)
However, now I've found that some of the brown stuff on the records is just DIRT! I took alcohol on a puff (70% with half water) and wiped just one down and it took 3 or 4 wipings to clean it. It came out pretty shiney...except for a few of those brown lines which run with the grooves, suggestive of damage by a metal needle (got that from photos on the one site). With that in mind, I think playing dirty records could do no good for their condition anyway...just like 45's and 78's. And maybe the damage is because someone tried to play them without first cleaning them!? Anywho, depending on how the rest clean up, I may go get that messy machine on Saturday if I can get someone to help unload it...but only to check how the records play...ugh. I really don't want an old wreck. I always get myself into these messes. If it plays well, then I'd feel obliged to fix/clean it to some degree, or as someone suggested, build a smaller box...ugh again. On the other hand: If most of the records have these groove brown lines, is it worth the trouble? I'm going to clean them now and make up a list. Thanks, Ger ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: Antique Phonograph List Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Diamond Discs 15 Andy that alll makes perfect sense. Unless your intent is to put that reproducer up for sale, as well as the records, then you should go back and grab That machine as well. Without it, what good are the reproducer and the records ?? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Baron" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]>, "ger" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:07:56 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Diamond Discs 15 _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
