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Re: WANTED: Gillette Tinfoil Phonograph
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2022 8:08 am
by Gramtastic
Interesting, I have just googled Miroslav Stehlik and he appears to be a Czech serial killer. Were the tinfoils just a sideline??
Re: WANTED: Gillette Tinfoil Phonograph
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2022 8:19 am
by JohnM
Gramtastic wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 8:08 am
Interesting, I have just googled Miroslav Stehlik and he appears to be a Czech serial killer. Were the tinfoils just a sideline??
Mirek Stehlik is the machinist.
Re: WANTED: Gillette Tinfoil Phonograph
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 9:33 pm
by gramophoneshane
Gramtastic wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 8:08 am
Interesting, I have just googled Miroslav Stehlik and he appears to be a Czech serial killer. Were the tinfoils just a sideline??
This literally made me laugh out loud.
But it's a great idea for a screen play I think.
DEATH BY TINFOIL PHONOGRAPH
A psychotic unemployed machinist manufacturers tinfoil phonographs in his mother's basement late at night.
His kidnapped victims are forced to listen to the appalling reproduction of Mary had a little lamb, played over and over again until their ears bleed, then they are finally bludgeoned to death with the
tinfoil phonograh 
Re: WANTED: Gillette Tinfoil Phonograph
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:10 am
by Inigo
the detectives found the body to have been killed by blows given with a blunt heavy instrument. They couldn't establish clearly the cause of bleeding ears, so they thought it a consequence of the blows. Only the poor victim and the killer knew the truth...
Re: WANTED: Gillette Tinfoil Phonograph
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2022 7:34 am
by BusyBeeCylinder
Not 100% authentic (plastic base & off the shelf pulley for flywheel for example), but here is a similar style I had made by a local machine shop 25 years ago. The prototype cost way more than I was initially quoted so wound up dropping the project.
Re: WANTED: Gillette Tinfoil Phonograph
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2022 9:25 am
by Lee
Very Kool! I like it. Thanks for the photos! Lee