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Does anyone have a photograph of an Edison Home A with the shaving attachment installed?

There is one photograph in "The Compleat Talking Machine," but it doe not show how the small funnel is attached.

I think that I read somewhere that the work better without the funnel but, now that I finally have one, I cannot find that article either.


Thank you all in advance!

The chip chute is attached by a tiny set screw on the side of the shaft.

That said, anything short of a Triumph is terribly underpowered for shaving cylinders: from my own experience, it takes ages to get a cylinder down to a proper surface. (Plus, you have to clean up all the mess that results: the chip chutes are not very effective).

Far better to find an original shaving machine, and use that.

Bill

Lucius1958,

Thank you sir.

I just missed a true shaving machine recently, then found the accessory and grabbed it. I will continue my quest for an actual shaver.

There is a pin on the side of the shaft that the shaver is attached to which seems to prevent the shaver from being retracted far enough to clear a cylinder that you don't want the shaver to come into contact with-is this normal?

Keep looking for a real shaver.
They are out there. Craigslist is a good place to look.

The most you can ever expect from trying to shave
on a cylinder phonograph is a very slow, very tedious,
very frustrating mess. They are far too slow and
underpowered to ever do much real good.

Shaving blanks well is tough enough even with a proper
shaving machine. Trying to do it using a cylinder
phonograph should be reserved for curiosity only, and
maybe for historical interest. But forget it for
practicality! It is a slow boat to China at best.

Chuck wrote:Keep looking for a real shaver.
They are out there. Craigslist is a good place to look.

The most you can ever expect from trying to shave
on a cylinder phonograph is a very slow, very tedious,
very frustrating mess. They are far too slow and
underpowered to ever do much real good.

Shaving blanks well is tough enough even with a proper
shaving machine. Trying to do it using a cylinder
phonograph should be reserved for curiosity only, and
maybe for historical interest. But forget it for
practicality! It is a slow boat to China at best.

AMEN BROTHER!

What a mess it is to shave records on a Triumph machine. How utterly pointless it is to shave records on a Home or (Heaven forfend!) a Standard!

Shavers are out there, and they are not yet expensive.