Hello out there!
Rich, in particular. You mentioned Steve Farmer. I would like the contact
info to send some parts out to get re- nickeled. The guy I have tried doesn’t
do a great job. He puts the nickel on so heavy that the parts don’t fit back
together.
A phone number or address would be great. Thank you all!!!
Gayle
Someone mentioned Steve Far
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1. Re: Home Plating Recommendations? (Ron L'Herault)
2. Victor I or E elbow (harvey kravitz)
3. Re: Top After Market Othrophonic Reproducers (DanKj)
4. Re: Home Plating Recommendations? (Arvin Casas)
5. Re: Home Plating Recommendations? (Rich)
6. Need Victor V (or D or VI) back bracket (Nicholas Williams)
7. Re: Home Plating Recommendations? (Arvin Casas)
8. Re: Top After Market Othrophonic Reproducers (Arvin Casas)
9. Re: Home Plating Recommendations? (Rich)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:49:39 -0400
From: "Ron L'Herault" <[email protected]>
To: "'Antique Phonograph List'" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Home Plating Recommendations?
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Seems to me Caswell sells/sold a real gold plate kit too. The problem with
Gold, and nickel too, but not as bad, is that it is hard to match gold
colors. A little difference in karat amount or a few different other
chemicals and you have a different gold color, greener, yellower, whatever.
Have you tried googling home electroplating kits or brush plating kits?
Ron L
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Arvin Casas
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Phono-L] Home Plating Recommendations?
Hello All,
I hope your summers have all started off well!
I was wondering if any of you had any recommendations for home plating?
(No, that is not some variation on getting on base on a first date, but in
regards to metal plate finishing as can be done at home.)
Always the willing guinea pig for our hobby, I tried the Caswell Plug N'
Plate system and had some success with their Nickel product, but only so-so
success with their faux Gold. (When I tried contacting their customer
service to troubleshoot, the owner came off as a bit "emotionally
incendiary" in his replies to a newbie, so I decided it's not worth me
continuing to experiment or use their products.)
Are there any other possible approaches or solutions? I have a few gold
plated pieces that have suffered some damage over the years prior to my
coming into them, and I was hoping, short of sending them out (which I
believe is priced per pound), to see if there was something I could try at
home on the few pieces that I have that need restoration / preservation. I
recall reading about home-brewed tank solutions (mixing gold chloride etc.,.
using batteries), but can't recall where (or if they worked).
Any recommendations?
Thanks!
Arvin
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:39:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: harvey kravitz <[email protected]>
To: Antique Phonograph List <[email protected]>
Subject: [Phono-L] Victor I or E elbow
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I am looking for a decent Victor I or E elbow. Please contact me off list.
Harvey Kravitz
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:17:48 -0400
From: "DanKj" <[email protected]>
To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Top After Market Othrophonic Reproducers
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Brunswick used excellent reproducers on their "Panatrope" acoustic
models; of all my portables, the Brunswick sounds best.
I don't know the model name or number :
https://www.box.com/s/zjxyhfwvzh6asqk0cw65
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arvin Casas" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 1:17 PM
Subject: [Phono-L] Top After Market Othrophonic Reproducers
Hello Again,
I was wondering what aftermarket "ortho-style" reproducers my phellow
phono
pholk have tried using, if any, and which ones they felt showed a marked
improvement or at least performed admirably?
I know that many in the U.K. have a fondness for the Meltrope III sound
box
(I understand its EMG lineage might be underlying the affection for it).
Similarly, I was provided the chance to buy a Leventhall that has a
Columbia
mount which sounds rather good to these ears.
Are there any others, say US Made, that garner such enthusiasm?
I'm not unhappy with my Viva-Tonal and Orthophonic stock reproducers, but
like the stereotype of the pop rock guitarist, am always curious about
other
"sounds."
Hope everyone is wearing their sunscreen,
Arvin
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 23:46:54 -0400
From: Arvin Casas <[email protected]>
To: Antique Phonograph List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Home Plating Recommendations?
Message-ID: <cdefd66e.47ad4%[email protected]>
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Yeah, color matching in the graphics design world as well as other
industries is more complicated than most people understand. One man's
gold is another man's trash, to reverse the clich?. Unfortunately I'm not
aware of any system such as Pantone that can be applied to metal finishing
- at least for lowly phono plebs. It would be great to match my tonearm
to a standard, get its "code" and have a finish replicated for it
chemically.
I have seen other options via a few cursory and early searches, but my
query to the group was in the hope that someone might have a
recommendation based on experience, even if negative. Of course I'm
always keen to experiment for the sake of continuing the knowledge of our
hobby (as I know you know Ron from those "funny" posts of mine on MOCAPS-
laughing at not with me - regarding my trying to grow cactus for needles
here in MA). This last venture out into terra incognita however, was a
little further into hostile territory than I normally prefer to endure.
That's why I was hoping others out there might have had at least some
cursory experience for me to explore further. A few pennies lost or in
vain is one thing, I don't enjoy risking my person.
Speaking of risks to health, are there any chemists out there who could
chime in with any information on what to avoid? While I don't think we
have a hall of martyrs for the preservation and restorations of things
phonographic, I'd hate to be the one to inaugurate its building, lol.
Arvin
On 6/25/13 10:49 PM, "Ron L'Herault" <[email protected]> wrote:
Seems to me Caswell sells/sold a real gold plate kit too. The problem
with
Gold, and nickel too, but not as bad, is that it is hard to match gold
colors. A little difference in karat amount or a few different other
chemicals and you have a different gold color, greener, yellower,
whatever.
Have you tried googling home electroplating kits or brush plating kits?
Ron L
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On
Behalf Of Arvin Casas
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Phono-L] Home Plating Recommendations?
Hello All,
I hope your summers have all started off well!
I was wondering if any of you had any recommendations for home plating?
(No, that is not some variation on getting on base on a first date, but in
regards to metal plate finishing as can be done at home.)
Always the willing guinea pig for our hobby, I tried the Caswell Plug N'
Plate system and had some success with their Nickel product, but only
so-so
success with their faux Gold. (When I tried contacting their customer
service to troubleshoot, the owner came off as a bit "emotionally
incendiary" in his replies to a newbie, so I decided it's not worth me
continuing to experiment or use their products.)
Are there any other possible approaches or solutions? I have a few gold
plated pieces that have suffered some damage over the years prior to my
coming into them, and I was hoping, short of sending them out (which I
believe is priced per pound), to see if there was something I could try at
home on the few pieces that I have that need restoration / preservation.
I
recall reading about home-brewed tank solutions (mixing gold chloride
etc.,.
using batteries), but can't recall where (or if they worked).
Any recommendations?
Thanks!
Arvin
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:50:24 -0500
From: Rich <[email protected]>
To: Antique Phonograph List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Home Plating Recommendations?
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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The easy way to get all of this plated is to ship it off to Steve
Farmer. It will probably be both quicker and cheaper than the DIY boy
chemist approach.
On 06/25/2013 10:46 PM, Arvin Casas wrote:
Yeah, color matching in the graphics design world as well as other
industries is more complicated than most people understand. One man's
gold is another man's trash, to reverse the clich?. Unfortunately I'm not
aware of any system such as Pantone that can be applied to metal finishing
- at least for lowly phono plebs. It would be great to match my tonearm
to a standard, get its "code" and have a finish replicated for it
chemically.
I have seen other options via a few cursory and early searches, but my
query to the group was in the hope that someone might have a
recommendation based on experience, even if negative. Of course I'm
always keen to experiment for the sake of continuing the knowledge of our
hobby (as I know you know Ron from those "funny" posts of mine on MOCAPS-
laughing at not with me - regarding my trying to grow cactus for needles
here in MA). This last venture out into terra incognita however, was a
little further into hostile territory than I normally prefer to endure.
That's why I was hoping others out there might have had at least some
cursory experience for me to explore further. A few pennies lost or in
vain is one thing, I don't enjoy risking my person.
Speaking of risks to health, are there any chemists out there who could
chime in with any information on what to avoid? While I don't think we
have a hall of martyrs for the preservation and restorations of things
phonographic, I'd hate to be the one to inaugurate its building, lol.
Arvin
On 6/25/13 10:49 PM, "Ron L'Herault" <[email protected]> wrote:
Seems to me Caswell sells/sold a real gold plate kit too. The problem
with
Gold, and nickel too, but not as bad, is that it is hard to match gold
colors. A little difference in karat amount or a few different other
chemicals and you have a different gold color, greener, yellower,
whatever.
Have you tried googling home electroplating kits or brush plating kits?
Ron L
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On
Behalf Of Arvin Casas
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Phono-L] Home Plating Recommendations?
Hello All,
I hope your summers have all started off well!
I was wondering if any of you had any recommendations for home plating?
(No, that is not some variation on getting on base on a first date, but in
regards to metal plate finishing as can be done at home.)
Always the willing guinea pig for our hobby, I tried the Caswell Plug N'
Plate system and had some success with their Nickel product, but only
so-so
success with their faux Gold. (When I tried contacting their customer
service to troubleshoot, the owner came off as a bit "emotionally
incendiary" in his replies to a newbie, so I decided it's not worth me
continuing to experiment or use their products.)
Are there any other possible approaches or solutions? I have a few gold
plated pieces that have suffered some damage over the years prior to my
coming into them, and I was hoping, short of sending them out (which I
believe is priced per pound), to see if there was something I could try at
home on the few pieces that I have that need restoration / preservation.
I
recall reading about home-brewed tank solutions (mixing gold chloride
etc.,.
using batteries), but can't recall where (or if they worked).
Any recommendations?
Thanks!
Arvin
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:53:51 -0700
From: Nicholas Williams <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Phono-L] Need Victor V (or D or VI) back bracket
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Hello everyone,
This is my first post on Phono-L and I am looking to buy a Victor V back
bracket (the same as on the Type D and the VI). If you have one to sell,
contact me off list at [email protected].
Thanks,
Nicholas J. Williams
