Help! Problems playing cylinders back electrically

[edisonphonoworks]

Nick, as far as stylus, and LP stylus works fine for four minute cylinders while, for making a 2 minute stylus, an old damaged stylus, the tip may be snipped, with sidecuts or scissors, and make a glass ball 34-36thousandths in diameter, with a lighter and a small rod of glass or other broken glass. You pull the glass when it melts between 2 pliers, and then make little glass spheres with tails. You will have to make a bunch of them, then check the size and use the one that is correct. You then can glue it with super glue where you snipped off the damaged stylus.