How to make cylinder wax and make cylinders.
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 7:34 am
I know that many on here don't have interest in recording cylinders, or making wax, or simply don't like the two renegade characters on this group who make them. But for the small, silent group that does. How about some nice tech post of where to put it all together. Chuck Richards and I have not been like most on this subject. Where in the past it has all been (kept under the hat). We have put it out there. Some have learned from us, but feel uneasy sharing.
http://www.richardslaboratories.com/ind ... ch-musings
Chuck Richards gets down and dirty with details in the above page, enough for you to make the fine blanks and wax that he makes. I beg to say the finest cylinder blanks out at this time.
Next is a video I made describing the method used from 1889-1900 for brown wax Edison blanks, used for commercial purposes.
https://youtu.be/6B5U3GUNBjw
Another with the method used in the 1900 Edison article
https://youtu.be/bVOxwZvmHz8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIf608Jjdwk
My Casting with the high temperature method.
https://youtu.be/i6e1KCRjs-M
A video I made about making the high temperature phonograph wax compound.
https://youtu.be/6B5U3GUNBjw
These show you how to make blanks. And the chemistry behind them.
http://www.richardslaboratories.com/ind ... ch-musings
Chuck Richards gets down and dirty with details in the above page, enough for you to make the fine blanks and wax that he makes. I beg to say the finest cylinder blanks out at this time.
Next is a video I made describing the method used from 1889-1900 for brown wax Edison blanks, used for commercial purposes.
https://youtu.be/6B5U3GUNBjw
Another with the method used in the 1900 Edison article
https://youtu.be/bVOxwZvmHz8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIf608Jjdwk
My Casting with the high temperature method.
https://youtu.be/i6e1KCRjs-M
A video I made about making the high temperature phonograph wax compound.
https://youtu.be/6B5U3GUNBjw
These show you how to make blanks. And the chemistry behind them.