Steve Farmer Technical Archives
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:36 am
For those of you who knew - or knew of - Steve Farmer, his passing last year was a real loss to the phonograph collecting community. Steve could tackle the most daunting restorations, on the most daunting machines, and turn a pile of rusty parts and rotten/missing wood into a showpiece. Many of us are proud to have machines in our collections which benefited from Steve's touch.
Steve's widow found a substantial number of photos, technical drawings, and other records of Steve's various restorations over the years, and very kindly donated them to the Antique Phonograph Society. There are 37 separate files showing information on things as diverse as making a Bell-Tainter mandrel, a Rosenfield coin-op, a Victor Auxetophone, a rigid-arm Royal, a Victor V, a couple of different Victor VIs - one with matching record cabinet, a Circassian VTLA, a VV-XX, 4 Edison Eclipse coin-ops, a Regina Hexaphone, a tabletop Automatic Reginaphone, a Circassian Edison Disc Phonograph, Edison Excelsior and H coin-ops, an Edison Idelia, a Kinetoscope, an Opera, a mahogany Triumph and Standard, a Multiphone, a pair of Cailophones, a wiring diagram for the Class M, measurements for fabricating a BC Graphophone friction wheel,a BD Disc Graphophone, a BS Graphophone, an Edison A-450, an Ajax, an Amberola 1A in Circassian, drawings for the Edison Bijou, and others.
These digital files can be very helpful for those of us working on these or similar machines, as well as woodworking. APS members can access these files on the web site:
https://www.antiquephono.org/
Click on "Articles" then "Technical" on the drop-down.
If you cannot access these, or other files in the APS online archive, it probably means you haven't yet renewed for 2019. Now's the time!
https://www.antiquephono.org/join-us-home/
Thanks go out to Judy Farmer for her generosity, Shawn O'Rourke for his efforts before and during the transfer, and to Rod Pickett for uploading all the material to the APS web site.
George P.
Steve's widow found a substantial number of photos, technical drawings, and other records of Steve's various restorations over the years, and very kindly donated them to the Antique Phonograph Society. There are 37 separate files showing information on things as diverse as making a Bell-Tainter mandrel, a Rosenfield coin-op, a Victor Auxetophone, a rigid-arm Royal, a Victor V, a couple of different Victor VIs - one with matching record cabinet, a Circassian VTLA, a VV-XX, 4 Edison Eclipse coin-ops, a Regina Hexaphone, a tabletop Automatic Reginaphone, a Circassian Edison Disc Phonograph, Edison Excelsior and H coin-ops, an Edison Idelia, a Kinetoscope, an Opera, a mahogany Triumph and Standard, a Multiphone, a pair of Cailophones, a wiring diagram for the Class M, measurements for fabricating a BC Graphophone friction wheel,a BD Disc Graphophone, a BS Graphophone, an Edison A-450, an Ajax, an Amberola 1A in Circassian, drawings for the Edison Bijou, and others.
These digital files can be very helpful for those of us working on these or similar machines, as well as woodworking. APS members can access these files on the web site:
https://www.antiquephono.org/
Click on "Articles" then "Technical" on the drop-down.
If you cannot access these, or other files in the APS online archive, it probably means you haven't yet renewed for 2019. Now's the time!
https://www.antiquephono.org/join-us-home/
Thanks go out to Judy Farmer for her generosity, Shawn O'Rourke for his efforts before and during the transfer, and to Rod Pickett for uploading all the material to the APS web site.
George P.