That's pretty much my experience too. Can't tell you how long I fudged with the rubber coupler to get it to play a full record! Pretty interesting setup, none the less.
Loran On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Greg Bogantz <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an early 10 panel cygnet horn and springless crane on an Edison > Fireside. As you surmise, the system doesn't work very well as the force > placed on the carriage by the horn varies with the position of the carriage. > It happens to work on my particular example because the rubber coupling from > my reproducer to the horn is old and somewhat loose. This allows the rubber > coupler to move vertically a bit as the carriage moves which results in a > more uniform carriage pressure. But this original setup was not > satisfactory, I'm sure, and that's why the later versions use the spring to > suspend the horn from the crane. > > Greg Bogantz > _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
