Re: Restored Columbia AT, It's Alive!
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 6:42 pm
I love the Graphophones.... I know they have their issues but dang they are cool!
George P.
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Re: Restored Columbia AT, It's Alive!
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:32 pm
No pot metal in these Graphophones!
George P.
George P.
Re: Restored Columbia AT, It's Alive!
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:49 pm
Same with my BK--better built than some Edison models!
Bring on the Graphophone revolution!
Bring on the Graphophone revolution!
Re: Restored Columbia AT, It's Alive!
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:54 pm
NO! No reason to collect these... send me your old junkers! HahahVanEpsFan1914 wrote:Same with my BK--better built than some Edison models!
Bring on the Graphophone revolution!
Re: Restored Columbia AT, It's Alive!
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:57 pm
Other Hobbies suffer from Pot Metal Woes as well...such as Old Lionel Pre-War Trains...and Old 1950's and earlier Classic cars...
The solutions offered in those hobbies are Reproduction Parts and Frames made in more Moderns Materials. Once painted or Chromed/Nickeled.... You literally can't tell the difference from the Originals. I don't see why the Phonograph hobby would be any different. I'm sure that there is someone out there making old Columbia Pot Metal Parts in Modern Materials....If not, There should be. Today, There's really no excuse for them not to exist. It just takes time to create a master mold...
Some Phonograph parts can be made on Modern CNC machines in aircraft aluminum as well. Anything's better than the old cracked Pot Metal which will eventually self detonate... but if it's Original Pot Metal still in good usable shape...I say use it until it fails..then replace with Repro..
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Tony K.
Edison Collector/Restorer
The solutions offered in those hobbies are Reproduction Parts and Frames made in more Moderns Materials. Once painted or Chromed/Nickeled.... You literally can't tell the difference from the Originals. I don't see why the Phonograph hobby would be any different. I'm sure that there is someone out there making old Columbia Pot Metal Parts in Modern Materials....If not, There should be. Today, There's really no excuse for them not to exist. It just takes time to create a master mold...
Some Phonograph parts can be made on Modern CNC machines in aircraft aluminum as well. Anything's better than the old cracked Pot Metal which will eventually self detonate... but if it's Original Pot Metal still in good usable shape...I say use it until it fails..then replace with Repro..
)Tony K.
Edison Collector/Restorer
Re: Restored Columbia AT, It's Alive!
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 9:42 am
Jean-Paul Agnard has made these parts for many years. Now that he is no longer able, I'm hoping someone will step into the breach.NEFaurora wrote: I'm sure that there is someone out there making old Columbia Pot Metal Parts in Modern Materials....
Tony K.
George P.
Re: Restored Columbia AT, It's Alive!
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 3:04 pm
In some cases, threaded inserts work to create new threads. They come in a variety of styles... press in, screw in or pop rivet type inserts. They work in wood or metal and make sense for certain applications...Lucius1958 wrote:The main problem I have had with the AT carriage is the screw holes stripping. I've tried some remedies, such as epoxy putty, to restore the threads, but without very much success; I finally had to rely on superglue to hold the screws in for the time being.
Bill
Re: Restored Columbia AT, It's Alive!
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 5:27 pm
This is just for fun... I noticed an optical illusion in the above picture of the Graphophone Grand and the Q. The Q looks huge in front of the GG - - or the GG looks small behind the Q. The two machines are not nearly their relative sizes in that image. Here's the same Q sitting beside a 5" cylinder box for comparison:
George P.
George P.