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Post by gleemanguy on Jul 12, 2008 8:45:09 GMT -5
After searching for several months withing a five state area I finally found an Edison Diamond Disk. The Edison plate identifies it as a C250. It was stuck in a storage room of an antique store gathering dust in a small town in Western Montana. In preparing to move the unit if noticed what a appears to be a small (16 gage insulated) wire that plugs into the recorder. The wire appears to run through the arm and down into the speaker. It is obviously original but I am at a loss to it's purpose? The only major condition issue was with two of the little molding pieces missing on the back of the cabinet. Any ideas how I might find replacement molding.
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Post by matty on Jul 12, 2008 10:44:45 GMT -5
It sounds like the machine has a "Duncan stop". This is an electric brake which was activated by the limit pin & loop at the front of the reproducer, and ran off a low voltage battery.
If you lift the turntable off, you should find the electric braking system underneath. There is another thread here about this brake, with a couple links you could follow for some more info.
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Post by larryh on Jul 12, 2008 22:22:57 GMT -5
Yes you have the ducan stop no doubt.. Not too common. Quite a find I would say. I didn't look at it too closely but a local collector has a C250 with the stop and battery still in place. I don't know if you can make them still work or not. Someone on here has a working one I think because in furnishing them with a new diaphragm I recall that the screw I used in the center for the link needed to be turned a certain way or it prevented the weight from moving as necessary for the stop to work.. Maybe they will see this and give some more info?
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Post by maroongem on Jul 13, 2008 21:05:43 GMT -5
Gleemanguy, you should get in touch with MT Phono here on the board as he lives in your neck of the woods.  Bill |
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Post by MT Phono on Jul 25, 2008 12:30:40 GMT -5
Gleemanguy, you should get in touch with MT Phono here on the board as he lives in your neck of the woods. Bill Yeah! I hear he isn't that bad a guy. Unfortunately he and I are still not *that* close - 300 miles or so apart. Sadly he is probably one of the closest collectors to me. Gleemanguy - email at scott@montanaphonograph.com |
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Post by MT Phono on Jul 25, 2008 12:49:55 GMT -5
Now that I have read all your posts I see you ended up with a C250. Wish I had known sooner - I have a number of "extra" DD machines I could part with including a really nice C250. If you are looking for DD records (or 78s) a neighbor inherited 1500 78s, DD and cylinder records. Somehow I happily ended up with all of them. There are probably 200-300 DD's many of which I will not need. If you are interested I could hold onto them for you.
Scott
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