Symphonola (by Columbia?)

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De Soto Frank
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Re: Symphonola (by Columbia?)

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Retrograde wrote::roll: a few more minutes in that kind of heat and that elbow would be toast. That bubbling is some component of the pot metal melting. My guess is the part is now more brittle than it was before heating. The machine sounds good, though.

My guess would be that is lead content in the alloy.

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Re: Symphonola (by Columbia?)

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Here is one of Larkin's Symphonola record labels. The example I have was pressed by Emerson.
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