Perhaps we need someone with good strong hands. Place both thumbs on the end of the mandrel and pull towards yourself with several fingers applying equal pressure on the opposite end of the cylinder. Long live Uncle Josh!
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Re: Stuck Amberol Cylinder
Well, I beg your pardon and bow to your sarcastic insight on this...PeterF wrote:Yeah, sure. And how do we know that plaster and weird early plastic expand at the same rate? We don’t.
No heat. No chemicals. Tap it.
(I can’t believe I’m expending so much effort on an uncle josh cylinder. But sacrifices must be made for the greater good, and it’s more fun than this work I’m supposed to be doing.)
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Sorry for being cranky. Was actually trying to inject a chuckle.
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OK, no problem.PeterF wrote:Sorry for being cranky. Was actually trying to inject a chuckle.
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Re: Stuck Amberol Cylinder
And now it seems we might never hear back on whether josh was rescued, or died trying.
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Re: Stuck Amberol Cylinder
did you get it off ? and if so how ?
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Re: Stuck Amberol Cylinder
It's been over a week since this thread was started. The phono nerds have made several suggestions. Were any successful????"
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Re: Stuck Amberol Cylinder
heck I want to know too! It's like a 1890's cliffhanger around this place.
I have a record that will not go on all the way and I thought I got it stuck on the mandrel forever. I was having a moment of "darn it I want to hear this record"! [explicit language Cleaned] So you must really have yours stuck...
[Offtopic] Im very sad I cannot play my #949 Band, "High School Cadets". Yes I was a high school marching band geek, so back off :p [/Offtopic]
I have a record that will not go on all the way and I thought I got it stuck on the mandrel forever. I was having a moment of "darn it I want to hear this record"! [explicit language Cleaned] So you must really have yours stuck...
[Offtopic] Im very sad I cannot play my #949 Band, "High School Cadets". Yes I was a high school marching band geek, so back off :p [/Offtopic]
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Victrola VV-IX 161087 G - was my great grandmothers, I remember dancing with her when I was 4 or so in her parlor.
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Re: Stuck Amberol Cylinder
I can see that this dead horse has a penchant for being beaten, and so alas, it is my sad duty to inform you that Uncle Josh has gone to the Great Beyond, Valhalla, or wherever Chuckling Hillbillies go to perform their penance.
Josh was so swollen that the cylinder has split vertically along the left seam, and plaster was vomiting out like a pregnant Twinkie. I tried everything that I could think of and that you could think of. Uncle Josh wasn't going anywhere. I imagine that he had been living on the mandrel for a very long time, and to make matters worse, the machine is a 2-minute only Edison Suitcase model with an automatic reproducer. Yea, someone had been playing a blue Amberol cylinder on this early machine, probably over and over again, and God knows how many times they had listened to Uncle Josh speak even more slowly than was absolutely necessary, as the automatic reproducer screamed in pain.
And so I did it. I got out my utility knife and operated on Uncle Josh. Mission accomplished. In my defense I'll say that at least I didn't murder Enrico Caruso, or Sousa, or Annette Hanshaw. I sent Uncle Josh to the Great Chicken Coop in the Sky.
Sorry about that.
Josh was so swollen that the cylinder has split vertically along the left seam, and plaster was vomiting out like a pregnant Twinkie. I tried everything that I could think of and that you could think of. Uncle Josh wasn't going anywhere. I imagine that he had been living on the mandrel for a very long time, and to make matters worse, the machine is a 2-minute only Edison Suitcase model with an automatic reproducer. Yea, someone had been playing a blue Amberol cylinder on this early machine, probably over and over again, and God knows how many times they had listened to Uncle Josh speak even more slowly than was absolutely necessary, as the automatic reproducer screamed in pain.
And so I did it. I got out my utility knife and operated on Uncle Josh. Mission accomplished. In my defense I'll say that at least I didn't murder Enrico Caruso, or Sousa, or Annette Hanshaw. I sent Uncle Josh to the Great Chicken Coop in the Sky.
Sorry about that.
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Re: Stuck Amberol Cylinder
RIPMikeB wrote:... and so alas, it is my sad duty to inform you that Uncle Josh has gone to the Great Beyond, Valhalla, or wherever Chuckling Hillbillies go to perform their penance.
James.