[Phono-L] Advice please - holes in cylinder surface

[Chris Kocsis]

Thanks, Norman, I will try that.  My 2-minute reproducer is a C.  I 
thought of bubbles too but not only is the size exactly the same of all 
the holes, but the sides of the holes are cylindrical, straight down, 
and they are of uniform depth.  A mystery.....

Chris

Norman Bruderhofer wrote:
> Chris, These holes look indeed different than the ones I used to find 
> sometimes on black wax cylinders. The usual holes are, to what I was 
> to figure out, caused by the collapse of the wax surface when tiny 
> bubbles are underneath it. You can see this sometimes on broken black 
> wax cylinders, both 2-minute and 4-minutes.
> The holes on your cylinder do not have an uncommon size though. It's 
> just the large group of them what looks suspicious. A regular stylus 
> should even be able to play over such an area, especially when you are 
> using a Model B reproducer which has a bullet sapphire instead of the 
> doorknob of a C.
> As Steven pointed out, candle wax could actually do but it can be 
> sticky and, as a worst case, can mess up your stylus that has to 
> cleaned then. I had good success with filling comparable holes with 
> modelling wax (for wood restoration) with a wooden toothpick. It takes 
> a lot of time and you should have the cylinder on the mandrel to give 
> it a better support while applying the wax.
>
> Norman
>
>
> Chris Kocsis wrote:
>> I just got a cylinder I won on eBay (Edison 9100, Bob Roberts' 
>> Everybody Works But Father) to replace mine that cracked. It was 
>> advertised as in excellent + condition, and as I pulled it out of its 
>> sleeve it looked like it was. But as I turned it to examine it 
>> closely, I found a strange, almost patterned number of deep circular 
>> pits among the grooves. I'm afraid to play it in case the stylus 
>> catches in these holes and gets ripped out. I'm attaching a picture.
>>
>> I would appreciate advice (as well as any information on how these 
>> holes could have formed -- I'm not an experienced collector, but I've 
>> never seen anything like them before).
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Chris
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