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

DanKj edisone1 at verizon.net
Mon Aug 17 16:41:46 PDT 2009


Good eye!  Now that I've blown up the pics, the holes might be from tiny 
drill bits - there seem to be 2 sizes -  so, maybe it was somebody fooling 
with a Dremel or similar tool


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Mercer" <maxbud12 at wowway.com>
To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Advice please - holes in cylinder surface


>I saved the photo to My Pictures and looked at it extremely blown up. There 
>is a dimple in the bottom of each hole. It looks like it was done with heat 
>and ???
> If they were bubbles I don't think the perimeter would be that perfect or 
> have that mark in the bottom of each hole. One hole appears to be 
> 'starting'. They look like BB holes until you look closely and see the 
> dimple in the bottom. You can see a stylus drop above one of them.
> Bruce and my .02



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