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

[Steven Medved]

Norman,

I appreciate your suggestion which was substantially better than mine. 

Styli should be cleaned on a regular basis, a soft toothbrush works nicely.  I have seen reproducers before where the stylus had actually disappeared underneath wax and debris.  

Steve
> 
> 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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