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I'm helping a friend who has an Edison Standard Model A S/N S-48287. I believe it's an early one from about 1902. The carriage has the lift lever instead of the more common push-pull button. Did this carriage have the little roller wheel on it like the earlier carriage for the automatic reproducer? Or was this roller wheel phased out with this newer carriage?
Harvey Kravitz

Phonofreak wrote:I'm helping a friend who has an Edison Standard Model A S/N S-48287. I believe it's an early one from about 1902. The carriage has the lift lever instead of the more common push-pull button. Did this carriage have the little roller wheel on it like the earlier carriage for the automatic reproducer? Or was this roller wheel phased out with this newer carriage?
Harvey Kravitz

I don't know about the Standard carriage design offhand, but if it was designed for one and was missing the roller, the carriage would not sit on the knife edge correct, and you would see a threaded hole where the roller was fastened beneath the carriage with a tiny screw. I had that issue with a banner-top Home.

I have 77XXX and it has a blade rather than wheel.

If any part of the carriage casting sits directly on the blade and you have no drill holes on the front face, you had the blade design.

If you have a drill hole on the front face and the carriage rests down forward of the blade, you have the wheel design.

If your friend doesn't have a carriage and wants to be correct, it "probably" had the blade design.

Steve

Have you checked Martinola's database for possible info? He graciously shared it on the APS website.

Here's a link, it's at the bottom of the article as a spreadsheet titled "Edison Standard Data".

http://www.antiquephono.org/spotters-gu ... honograph/

Fran

Thanks for all the help. The article about Standards and the data base was most helpful.
Harvey Kravitz