[Phono-L] Pot metal swelling geographically speaking (new topic)

2013-08-19 Thread Don Mayer
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Re: [Phono-L] Edison Bearing

2013-01-29 Thread Don Mayer
of the cachet of acoustic phonograph technology. I would enjoy hearing if others with better technique have a better experience with sintered bronze than I did. Regards, Don Mayer It is important to note the difference between bronze bushings and sintered bronze bushings. The former

[Phono-L] Edison rococo grill orientation

2008-09-25 Thread Don Mayer
My 1As and 1B has the urn in the lower half as is seen on the Edison catalogues of the era. The catalogues I have for each year do not show the urn on top upside down in any depiction. - Al I have observed a few Edison cabinets with the urn upside-down, particularly on the Herzog-style

[Phono-L] Edison rococo grill orientation

2008-09-24 Thread Don Mayer
Please forgive me if this has come up before. I have four Edison phonographs with the urn style grill. I have generally seen the grills to be oriented in such a way as to have the urn on the bottom, apparently with the open end up. On the other hand, here is what I observe about my

[Phono-L] removing turn table

2007-01-24 Thread Don Mayer
For removing the turntable shaft, try this tool. Piano technicians drive new tuning pins into the sound board by using a punch made for the purpose. It has a concave hole in the bottom so that it doesn't slip off the pin and so that it distributes the blow more evenly over the surface of the

[Phono-L] Nipper painting

2006-12-24 Thread Don Mayer
While we are on this thread about Nipper prints and paintings, I have some questions. My artistic daughter has said that should would undertake to do a reproduction for me and I would like to give her all the 'right' information. Therefore, can anyone answer the following: 1. What are the

[Phono-L] Trim before sending please

2006-12-24 Thread DON MAYER
have already read in order to find something new. Look at the amount of new material in the most recent digest version of these messages and you will be appalled at how much is being unnecessarily quoted and requoted from days before. Thanks, Don Mayer

[Phono-L] Racial Inferences (was Coin-op'd Edison . . .)

2006-12-24 Thread DON MAYER
that the phrases you quote are more local than you realize. In any event, I do hope that we can have meaningful discourse without racial characterizations such as you provided in your posting. They do sound a little like fingernails on a blackboard to some of us. Respectfully, Don Mayer

[Phono-L] McLagan gramophone grill info wanted

2006-12-24 Thread Don Mayer
for a photo (maybe even a grill tracing?) to set the stage for having a reproduction made. Thanks very much for your time to think about this. Regards, Don Mayer

[Phono-L] Nifty Nirona spring size?

2006-12-24 Thread Don Mayer
the spring's thickness and length. Does anyone out there have a dimension for this spring? I have located one spring listing for a Nifty that could be correct, but I thought it worth a note to the list to enquire if anyone has recently had one out for a look. Thanks if you can help, Don Mayer

[Phono-L] Nifty Nirona Spring Size?

2006-12-24 Thread Don Mayer
Thank you very much everything who replied to my querry about the correct thickness and length of this spring. To those who suggested calling Ron Sitko, I had done that prior to posting this question. Ron had a listing for a Nifty, but there were a couple of different motors for this

[Phono-L] Cutting Messages When Replying

2006-12-24 Thread Don Mayer
... you have to go through foot after foot after foot of previously posted messages to get to an answer or the next post. Thank you Bruce; that will definitely help to identify the new content in the postings. Don

[Phono-L] Visit while in Toronto?

2006-12-24 Thread Don Mayer
, am a professional musician (reeds), and started collecting over 30 years ago. Cheers, Don Mayer

[Phono-L] Phono-L postings

2006-12-24 Thread Don Mayer
for those who are interested in this type of thread. The postings which are on-topic are great, however. Don Mayer