Many thanks, Peter, for this offer to post the photos. Will follow through and email photos directly to you shortly. Best regards, Andy Baron On Jun 22, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Peter Fraser wrote: > can you please post some pictures, or send some to me so that i can > post them for folks to review? > > -- Peter > pjfraser at alamedanet.net > > On Jun 21, 2007, at 10:28 PM, Andrew Baron wrote: > >> Thanks, George for this insight. Given that, and the reasonably >> good fit to the relatively small A-200 cabinet, this does seem a >> likely origin of this particular crank. >> >> Do you think you could shed a light on the question I've posted a >> couple of times over the past few days, regarding whether the user- >> adjustable (semi-automatic) stop on my ser. no. 1429 A-250 was the >> first type of stop scheme that Edison employed on the new Disc >> Phonograph? In this arrangement, there's a small round knob on >> the start lever, which can also serve as a manual stop lever. >> >> Any idea of when that type of stop was discontinued in favor of >> the more familiar type with the rigid stop trip lever on the lift >> post? >> >> I'd like to informally survey any owners of these early Edison >> Disc Phonographs that have this unusual early style stop, to find >> out the model and serial numbers of the machines that have it. To >> show graphically what I'm referring to, I can email a photo of >> this odd lever arrangement to anyone who might like to help. >> >> I'm hoping to use this detail and possibly others to learn >> approximately when my early A-250 was built. >> >> Best regards, >> Andy >> >> >> On Jun 21, 2007, at 7:10 PM, gpaul2000 at aol.com wrote: >> >>> >>> Andy, >>> >>> The "A-150" Disc Phonograph was regularly supplied with an >>> oxidized bronze finish on its metal parts. >>> >>> George Paul >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org