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Cylinder Phonograph Rubber Mold Kit...???

Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 4:01 pm
by alang
Just stumbled accross this on eBay. Anyone have any idea what this could be?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Cylinder-Phonograph ... 3369fbbef5
Thanks
Andreas

Re: Cylinder Phonograph Rubber Mold Kit...???

Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 6:10 pm
by estott
It appears to be someone's scheme to manufacture cylinders- maybe they were cast from recordings, maybe they're blanks. Ingenious, but the results will be junk.

Re: Cylinder Phonograph Rubber Mold Kit...???

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:10 pm
by edisonphonoworks
Probably took a cylinder, and vasalined it up, put it in a cardboard tube, filled it with plaster and made a mold that way. Probelem is you would have to ream the heck out of the inside, and the outside would be thin, blanks have to be much thicker than the finished blank.