Is there a way to message you as i have one dang near identical but when i place my v disc on it, it skips….. i replaced the tone arm but was wondering if we could chat if you wouldnt mind trouble shooting with me…… im wondering if the reproducer needs to be angled a certain way etc. any way you could help with tips etc
Congratulations on fixing da brake looks great and sounds very quiet love to here a cylinder play do you have Edison Opera as well I'm getting mine this wed so looking forward to it 😀👍☕️
Congratulations on an excellent restoration. Sounds as good as any other Edison disc machine. I'm guessing these are rare, as back then, their utilitarian appearance would have little appeal if they appeared as military surplus. Looks like its seen active service, but transporting these heavy machines around war zones must have been difficult. British troops had the more lightweight & easily portable Decca 'Trench Model' That said, I recall my father saying that American soldiers were massively equipped (to the point of what he'd call luxury) & their units certainly didn't travel light!
This recording was reissued in 1953 as a children's 78 - the B-side of Cricket C-15, with the choir uncredited. It's nice to find out after all these years who the singers were! (The other side was Bradley Kincaid's version of "The Blue-Tail Fly", from a Majestic 78 of c. 1946.)
If you take this machine to a cemetery at night,you will be able,to pick up the voices of the dead.Take some empty cylinders with you so you may be able to record them. I inherited over a 1000 old cylinders but no phonograph. Since I could not play them, me and my 2 boys,used them for target practice.
Cool box and needles. Looks Phonograph to me. Soft tone thin, loud thick. Why the numbers on top though?? Not seen anything like it before. Thanks for sharing 👍
While I absolutely appreciate your skills. I cannot connect the spring at the very beginning before starting to curl it. All I needed was a new spring for my two barrel motor. All cleaned up. Ready to install the spring and I cannot do it. I am a handy gal and can do anything if someone teaches me on RU-vid. What I would really like to see is an up close start to the very beginning when you connect the spring to the barrel. Is that possible? Or maybe I just don’t have the strength to do it. Either way I could use some tips to get that end coil connected and to stay put while before winding the rest of the spring in the barrel.
Hello, I have the same exact doll. How does the Crank come off the mechanism? Does it Unscrew like a regular Edison cylinder player?? I don't want to break mine if it does Not come off. Please help...
These are fabulous machines and it's a shame Edison stopped producing them and moved on to other models that were not nearly as well built! The gear drive is bullet proof, the auto stop works beautifully and the cabinets were all wood, not wood veneer. The production life span of these machines was cut short by the 1914 fire at the Edison plant. These were the first table top internal horn machines produced by Edison and remain relatively rare in the wild.
Why did you unscrew the thing at the end of the reproducer (the part that rides in the groove)? Is this record a standard laterally cut record? Was the part you took off the sapphire ball stylus the Pathe records use?
The cap I screwed off is to protect the fragile sapphire ball stylus that is used to play the vertical cut Pathe records. The stylus is very hard and rarely wears out, but it is very brittle, much like glass, and can be easily broken if something hard bangs into it. The disc in this video is a verticsl cut Pathe.
We're there any disc based machines that were belt driven? Why does this use a belt as opposed to directly driving it off of the governor? Is it that they don't want to drive the governor too fast? Belt drives are pretty inefficient. As a general rule, gear drives are more energy efficient than belt drives. Since all the energy the system uses ultimately comes from your arm, more efficiency is better (all else being equal)
You switched right from the 78 to the 80RPM Edison Disc without adjusting the speed. In case you don't know, the checkerboard on the periphery of the Edison label is actually a strobe-o-scope. Under a non-LED electric light, if the boxes are standing still, the record is turning at the right speed. If the boxes drift one way, it's slow and the other way it's fast. But when they appear to not be moving at all, the record is spinning at the right speed.
As a past mechanic im good with my hands i have done two spring motors recently and had no troubles. What i did differently i coated the inside of drum with grease and put grease on the spring as i was installing it into the drum. And after the spring was inplace i applied more grease. Wish i had a better idea at that time of what grease to have used. But has bin working well. Nice video thanks for posting it its very good.
