This is a timely discussion. I have just finished an article for the June Sound Box (California Antique Phonograph Society) on the John M. Dean company. It has details and photos of the manufacturing process a century ago. The process has not changed much in 100 years.
On ThursdayApril 15, 2010, at April1520109:15 AM, Steven Medved wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dean, > John M., Inc. > > > > > > > > > > > > > 26 Mechanics St., > P.O. Box 924-TR > > Putnam, CT 06260 > > USA > > > Tel: 860-928-7701 > > > > > > > Product > Description > > Textile & > Industrial Pins, Pointed Wire Products, Pins & Needles, Wire Pins, > Tapered Wire Products, Knurled & Threaded Pins & Points > > > > > > > Dean still makes needles. > > > > BOHIN INDUSTRIE > > Le Bourg - 61300 Saint Sulpice sur Risle - FRANCE > > Tel. : 33 (2) 33 84 16 00 > > Fax : 33 (2) 33 24 20 41 > > E-mail : [email protected] > > > > Bohin still > makes needles. > > > > Pfanstiehl Corporation Acquired by L.K.G. > Industries, Inc. > > > > Philmore-Datak / LKG Industries, Inc. > > 3660 Publishers Drive > > > Rockford, IL 61109 USA > > Waukegan, IL > > > Pfanstiehl Corp. > a leader in the replacement needle & phonograph cartridge, audio, video, > telephone and auto sound accessory business since 1919 has been purchased by > L.K.G. Industries, Inc. of Rockford, > Illinois. > L.K.G. Industries is relocating the Pfanstiehl facility to its Rockford, IL > plant. > > > I do not know if Pfanstiehl still makes needles. > > > > > > Bry-O-Phonic > > > 802-748-9264 M > F B phone number > > > > > > $1.79 per pack of 100 > > shipping 40 cents first pack, 25 cents each additional pack > 10 packs no shipping. > He sells on eBay. > > > > > > > Dean is where Martin got his Bry-O-Phonic > needles, he said Dean had a place in the > company where all the needle packs were for the companies that they had made > needles for when 78’s were being made. > > > > LAUBSCHER PRAZISION AG > > Hauptstrasse 101 > > Postfach 180 > > CH-2575 Tauffelen > > > > Made needles into the 1980’s at least, they were currently > selling off stock when I contacted them a years ago. > > > > > > > > |[email protected]| 1 Pine Street, Box 766 > > Nashua, > NH 03060 > > > > call: 800.343.7467 > > or 603.883.7758 > > fx: 603.882.2641 > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
