Hello Dave, Thanks so very much. Steve
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:10:47 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] For Sale German made NOS Exposition reproducer and > Early Holey H, H with holes in the weight > > I appreciate it when people offer things here instead of going right to Ebay. > Anyone who buys a reproducer from Steve is going to love it. > Dave > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Steven Medved <[email protected]> > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Sent: Mon, March 26, 2012 12:02:12 PM > Subject: [Phono-L] For Sale German made NOS Exposition reproducer and Early > Holey H, H with holes in the weight > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
