Steve, How soft is the isolator you made? (I know it's essentially a stupid question Ha Ha Ha! Trying to quantitatively describe softness here-with me :roll: ) Have you ever tried a Rocky Mountain isolator. I've want to try one of those for a long time, I've heard very good things about them. I'm wo...

Bill,

Those would be neat to hear! Now, were they for general issue or pressed specially for some group, party or organization? Is there a notation in your reference regarding the recording format of those discs?

Regards,
J.

Matt, I'm leaning towards Shane's answer. It's either a dull stylus or groove giving you an echo or an engineer or performer speaking in the background. Although it'd be possible I believe to record on the end of a celluloid BA you'd really have to make a lot of noise and probably lean on the cutter...

Joe_DS,

What a great read. Thanks for sharing that. I got a kick out some of the other article too, like to to build a cart to haul out you ash barrel.

Regards,
J.

Bill, Ah personal records yes, But I don't recall ever seeing one that did not say personal record or have a notation of some sort. If we saw the label Recordchanger has it might help to clear things up. That's what it may be, although the label he's described post dates the info you've quoted. Rega...

Jimmyjoe, Without knowing exactly what you have or the condition, it's really impossible to hazard a guess. More than likely though if it's an average stack of forties swing-about a buck a record or so, I'd think. Except for the Crosby-every stack of forties records has at least one copy of ' White ...

Engbo,

That's a cunning little machine, very nice. It looks like it's rather short, maybe only about three feet or so? The tone are looks similar to a Columbia one. It that a N.O.S. tin of Bagshaw's Brilliantone needles?

Regards,
J.

MusicMadore, A question, what furniture polish doesn't have wax? You mean something like lemon oil &c? I wonder, if you are adding some sort of chemical layer between the disc and the needle/stylus you are just muddying the sound aren't you? A decrease in the high end of a worn disc might give t...

I have spent a fair amount of energy searching for the elusive vertical format Columbia disc record. And no one I've talked with has ever seen or heard of one other than a possible weak connection with NY recording labs or some such-I don't have the link handy right this second, nor has anyone heard...

Just a note to anyone reading this thread as of this date I notice that some of my posts are incomplete for some reason. As it has been over a year since visiting this thread I can't recall what's missing to fill them in-Sorry.

Regards,
J.

fwdstuck, As Joe_DS says one is better off keeping a good machine as original as possible. We should all bear in mind that the №2 we find on an older machine might have been there since the Sound-Box was new. I'm sure quite few folks ran out to get the latest up-grade then, just as today. :) Rebuild...

DS, I figured it was generic and from the mid-thirties or later (Due to the chrome plating). I was wondering if it was European, but if it was on a Waters Conley it's most likely of U.S. manufacture. With a piece of roofing rubber as a gasket it just fits the tone-arm of a French HMV101 type of port...

Folks, I recently got a gold toned Columbia tone-arm and reproducer that I hoped to use to help me along with a table top Columbia I'm working on. I was surprised to find it was brass, not potmetal, when it arrived. Sean told me the early ones are brass. Well I hadn't paid much attention (Don't know...

Folks, I got this reproducer recently. It has an odd adaptor with it. There's no rubber isolator in the rear of this one. I tested it out on a portable without the adaptor and a bit of sheet rubber as an isolator; it nearly blew me out of the room! :o http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r126/steamerp...

Fwdsyuck,

You might try contacting APSCO, I think they have all the fixin's for black Japanning repair. I'm not sure, but give them a shout.

Regards,
J.