If my posting bothers anyone please let me know as I actually enjoy fixed price offers from fellow members as it keeps me up on prices and I have made purchases. I am actually taking a loss on all of these as the H I will install new gaskets and you will get it at the price I paid for it and there is no rebuild charge. Holey H: It is an average looking H with a shiny top.
The H with holes in the weight I paid $115 for and after rebuilding it I will sell it at $115, it is all original and in the correct band of serial numbers (A290,000 to A340,000) for the H with holes. All I need to know is if you want the stylus bar made not to move or to swivel. Edison made the swivel bar to compensate for the fast wear of the wax amberols, it did not work and by 1910 he fixed the bar in the H, K and J. Fixing the bar makes it track properly, but that is up to you. German made Exposition reproducer: There is a tiny bit of rust on the one flat spring that I left there intentionally, but I would grade it 98% and it looks new until you look close. Then you can tell it is old. I have reproducers I forgot I had so I want to reduce by selling about half of the ones I have. As you can see I am selling it for the cost of the parts I have in it, I am not making a profit especially when you include the labor I put in the rebuild. Here is a New Old Stock German Made Exposition reproducer with a paper label behind the mica. The reproducer HAD three problems, the flange, the mica (sound) and loose label. I corrected all three. Most of the rebuild people charge $40 just to replace gaskets, the instructions Victor has for the Exhibition tell you to put the needle bar up to the mica, but you get better sound and more volume with the bar around .003 away. First the metal flange would not fit Victor machines, I solved this by adding a Exhibition flange ($7.00) from Ron Sitko. To do this I had to tap the holes to 5-40 which I did by first tapping them to 4-40. Next I added two Exhibition flange screws from Ron Sitko ($10.00 for the pair, they are very nicely made and blued). Finally the mica was cheap looking and looked like the poor quality mica you see today with the large punched hole and the delamination on the edges so I replaced it with a NOS Exhibition mica ($7.50). Years ago I paid $40 for the reproducer in its box. As you can see not counting the rebuild, clean, and new gaskets I have over $60.00 in this reproducer. I cleaned the nickel in clock cleaner and then used Flitz so the nickel looks almost new. The back was painted black and has the original black paint that looks new. The paper label came loose, I cemented in back in place and installed new gaskets and sound tested it. It sounded better than the Exhibition I rebuilt with the hard gaskets back in the 1980's. I will include 5 loud tone Everest NOS Swiss needles and 5 gold plated medium trek needles with it. The needle bar has a round hole. The cost is $60 plus shipping and to cap shipping at $5.00 I will make the cost $65.00 which will include priority mail shipping with delivery confirmation in the 7x7x6 priority mail box. You will get the reproducer, its original box, the tissue paper it was wrapped in. The reproducer will not be packed in its box to prevent damage. If you have an offer that is close let me know, I will go by the first full or close offer I have. I have two of these, one is rebuilt the other will need to be rebuilt. I rebuilt if for someone that did not want it and will sell the second one at the same price. After selling all the reproducers I want to sell I will not break even as I purchased the diamond reproducers at full price and they all had bad diamonds. If I was not honest I could recover my full cost, but my reputation is worth more than money and I did not buy them to make money, I purchased them to keep. Now that my research is 90% complete I want to get rid of at least 50% of the reproducers that I have. Steve _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
