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a custom black wax cylinder, business is booming right now, spending all of my time recording cylinders and repairing phonographs...

i just installed the rebuilt recorder. the diaphragm is made of steel, and both the diaphragm and stylus are exact duplicates of the original. now i rebuild the reproducer...

mark, the recording and reproducing styli are totally different, the recording stylus is mounted to a steel diaphragm, the reproducer is made of mica with a very complex arrangement for the stylus. i will be posting video as soon as i get it constructed, very very difficult to make one of these styl...

repairing this for the national museum of south Korea, made a temporary stylus to get the recorder working, but have to rebuild both the recorder and reproducer...

i am sure you could take some record sleeves to any binder and have them make a book for you, pretty simple. record sleeves are common and you can make a book out of them pretty quick, just a thought...

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this machine will arrive Monday for repair, this is going to the national museum in south Korea. i will be posting video of this machine as i begin the repairs, and will be doing a lot of recording on this little tinfoil phonograph. this is of course a replica of the original, but is an exact duplic...

last video of the Dictaphone. this old machine came in really handy for doing experiments, learned a lot from this $ 10 machine, thought i would post this last video. this is a mp3 transfer recording on an original brown wax phonograph cylinder circa 1900. this cylinder is 116 years old... fkM9TwUcd...

the scope comes with a microscope micrometer calibration ruler with full reticul and calibration lines all metric of course but provides measurement of 0.03, 0.05, 0.07, 0.1 and 0.2, 40mm scale, round particle measuring, and a grid. this is a pretty basic scope but resolution is pretty good consider...

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ebay, REALLY cheap. $ 12.94 free shipping...

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for an entry level microscope hard to beat this, its cheap and it works. i can upgrade if i need to but hard to beat the price, will be shooting some video with this tomorrow as well as some stills to see how it works, can zoom from 50x to 500x, you can see blood cells at 400x so this should be suff...

usb microscope 50x-500x, 8 built in led spotlights, manual focus, will shoot video as avi as well as snapshots. pretty basic but REALLY inexpensive, 12 bucks with free shipping. just got it installed, will be playing with this to see what it can do, but i think this will be more than sufficient for ...

took six weeks and 70+ hours to get this machine in working order. it came from ireland for repair and had major issues with the sound box, completely rebuilt the sound box including the stylus, stylus bar, rubber snubber and diaphragm. i used isinglass or stove mica for the diaphragm, tried 11 diff...

no, plastics of any kind are too hard to cut with the recording stylus, also the cylinders have a tapered core to prevent slipping on the mandrel. the recording blanks are made of aluminum soap , to erase the cylinder it is shaved on an original cylinder shaver, basically a small lathe with a sapphi...

this dictaphone has proved to be a very useful tool, i can do all of my experiments on the dictaphone and then apply it to the cylinder phonograph. the technology for both machines is identical, vertical cur recording with a sapphire cup tipped rod glued directly to a moving diaphragm, extremely cru...

i left a few seconds of dead audio at the end of the video, as you can hear the uncut wax is virtually silent !!!

THIS WORKS !!! recording with a microphone direct to a wax cylinder...