Styli for Edison cylinder reproducers?
Posted: Fri May 15, 2020 11:54 am
I pulled the Fireside off the shelf the other day and thought I really need to put a fresh set of styli in it. The old ones are not in good enough shape to use. It has most of a Model K reproducer that was not in perfect shape when I got it.
The 4-minute is missing its stylus I think; when it was together it would play two or three grooves at once. The 2-minute isn't particularly great either and I think I will have to do something with it too.
When this phonograph was actually working about a year or so ago, it didn't sound as good as it should. The K reproducer buzzes some from mechanical oddness in it and the stylus bars seem to work themselves over to where they touch and then end up interfering with one another.
I'm about this close to sending it off to a repairman, or at least the bottom half of it to be re-worked; hate to put a nice older phonograph out of service just by my own clumsiness and setting it aside into my innumerable "old projects."
And if I can save enough maybe I can paint the horn for it too!
The 4-minute is missing its stylus I think; when it was together it would play two or three grooves at once. The 2-minute isn't particularly great either and I think I will have to do something with it too.
When this phonograph was actually working about a year or so ago, it didn't sound as good as it should. The K reproducer buzzes some from mechanical oddness in it and the stylus bars seem to work themselves over to where they touch and then end up interfering with one another.
I'm about this close to sending it off to a repairman, or at least the bottom half of it to be re-worked; hate to put a nice older phonograph out of service just by my own clumsiness and setting it aside into my innumerable "old projects."
And if I can save enough maybe I can paint the horn for it too!