black wax cylinder damage

[kirtley2012]

Also for adjusting it, if i was holding the reproducer hanging from the neck should the top of the weight be parralell with the bottom of the body? Or is that wrong?

[kirtley2012]

Someone mentioned before (am i noticing residue on the stylus), ive just played a edison bell cylinder of bedelia by harry bluff and not only am i noticing some residue, that cylinder is wearing out very quick, ive played it a handfull of times and am starting to notice " white grooves", is this the cylinder or stylus?

[OrthoSean]

It's 99% likely that its the stylus.

Sean

[kirtley2012]

Thanks!, im really starting to get sick of it!, anyone have a spare, good, 2 min saphire stylus to end all of these problems!

[gramophoneshane]

If rotating the stylus hasn't worked, you really should just buy a brand new stylus. I know they're expensive, but they're well worth saving your pennies for. And once you have a brand new sapphire stylus, ONLY play wax cylinders with it. Playing celluloid cylinders with a sapphire stylus designed for wax, will quickly wear the sapphire & you'll be back where you started.

[phonoman-antique]

wow kurtly thanks for that photo-micrograph of your stylus.
Very well done.How did you make that picture?
I would like to photograph mine.
I would like to also see what a recording stylus looks like.
What magnification was yours taken at?
Good job.

[kirtley2012]

I just used my normal digital camera, took a closeish picture then used the digital zoom to magnify it further, I don't know what magnification it's at though!
I unfortunately lost this stylus when trying to turn the stylus, I still need to get a new one!
I don't have a recorder stylus unfortunately!

Alex

[phonoman-antique]

When you said you lost it did you turn it and then later the stylus
fell out due to not being glued in properly?
I wonder if ever anyone does this again it would be best do add
some new shellac before pushing in back in.Then wait a day or two
for it to dry out properly.I would want to fill the hole with shellac
and then shove the stylus in.

I have ordered a digital microscope and will submit picks of styli.Soon.

[phonoman-antique]

Kirtley is that photo of your stylus before or after turning the
stylus.Because one side(top in your pic) looks more worn that the other(bottom)?

[kirtley2012]

this is before, i never acctually turned the stylus because when i tried, i accidentally pulled it out and dropped it!, i am still meaning to get another!