Wasn't this the person who had the Triumph A that appeared in numerous 'original' configurations?
This reproducer has a C stylus and bar and a reproduction hinge block. Many D reproducers have C stylus and bars, perhaps because they were used to play the regular cylinders after the Concert record production declined. It appears the solid weight may be correct for this one as the hole weights appeared around 73000 on the C, and D 58967 has a solid weight. It is interesting to note in 1910 solid weights appeared on the C. Al, please correct me if I am wrong, I believe if you play a concert cylinder with a C stylus you will remove more material for two reasons. First the ball stylus has more contact area, secondly the C stylus is shaped differently and has less contact area. There are two types of D bars, the first, early type is thick where the screw goes through it holding it in the shoulders, the rest is thin. These have the early crude ball stylus. The thin part is of the bar is .0233 and the thick part is .0564, the C bars I have measured are in the .0566 to .0573 range. This reproducer should have the early bar. The later D bar is of uniform thickness and these have the stylus that the model B and later automatics have. This stylus is the same diameter and it is the contact area that is polished and about the bottom third. The unpolished area on these are a lot smoother than the early ones. These are much more uniform in length than the early ones which vary so you have short and long ones. The C and H styli are mostly of uniform length, but you will find longer and shorter ones. Edison styli are held in by shellac, I have some C styli that are supposed to be NOS, they are coated with a brown material I believe is shellac, that way you would only have to put them in the bar and apply heat. The early ball stylus is found on the standard speaker and the earlier automatics. The sapphire rod actually has a partial ball polished on the end. The rest of the stylus is not polished and looks heavily frosted. It almost looks like a bowling pin except the bottom part is not that much larger than the top, but the top polished part of the stylus is smaller in diameter. The stylus bar on the automatic is around .0211 thick, the model B bars are thicker, around .0225 and the pot metal weight ones are even thicker at around .0245. Steve > To: phono-l@oldcrank.org > From: clockworkh...@aol.com > Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 20:12:25 -0500 > Subject: [Phono-L] Frankenreproducer alert > > > > > One of my least favorite sellers with an honesty and knowledge score I > believe to be ZERO has put up a Model D Reproducer on eBay. > Check out 170574734251 > The reproducer is a collection of damaged parts as far as I can tell. Why > would someone file down a brass body? > The stylus bar looks like a C bar and not a D ball type desired to gently > play brown wax Concert records. > The listing description says it all. > Best wishes to all, > Al > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
