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Improved Edison 'Hot Rod' Home

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I had a post up before about a machine I was messing with, creating an electric Edison home, nicknamed the 'Hot Rod Home', well I was having problems with the motor, it seemed to maybe be a columbia universal motor, but there were problems with it meaning it wouldn't keep steady speed, I decided to change to an Edison Ekonowatt motor but this would not fit inside the previous cabinet, I had some spare oak large enough to use for this so made a new case and this is the result, all it needs now are a couple of switches and a 4 and 2 minute reproducer for the large carrier arm, currently it's using the model C from my Edison Standard with a reducer ring, though this will spend part of its life as a recording machine.

I think it looks pretty cool, although it it pretty weighty!
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I always wanted to do something like that... It looks great and you don't have to wind it... How does it play - does it hold the correct speed?
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Curt A wrote:I always wanted to do something like that... It looks great and you don't have to wind it... How does it play - does it hold the correct speed?
Perfect for all that cylinder DJ-ing I'm never going to do :lol:

It plays great and keeps great speed, it'steadier than my Standard for sure

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Hi Alex- Is that the motor that took a circuitous route from Virginia to the UK? If so, I'm impressed you have it working so quickly!

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And I'm impressed at how far (literally and figuratively) my poor, cut-down modified Home has come to become a sturdy, working machine. Great job!

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Thanks guys!

Yeah Brad, it's the same one, I'm not entirely sure Parcel Monkey has it down as delivered yet :lol:

Yeah, the Home is a bit different from when it arrived!

Here is a video of it playing!

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You're fast--- Way faster than Marcel Ponkey! :) Glad the motor finally got there. I've long thought about doing something similar in order to play cylinders without repeated windings, but never got my act together. I can now live vicariously through my old motor! :) It plays great!

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Very nice! One of these days I might finish my electric phono project. Is that the transformer to the right of the motor?

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It is, just to bring the UK voltage down to a manageable level for the motor, I've installed a motor on/off switch for the motor next to it now, might install a regular type carriage until I can afford a model O reproducer for it

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