Will do. I'll need to charge up my camera batteries and hope to email a few photos directly to you within the next day or so. Thanks for responding. In the short term, do you have a sense of how common or scarce the needle set screw with the embedded stylus is? Best, Andy On Jan 1, 2008, at 6:29 PM, George wrote: > Can you supply me pictures of the reproducer Andy? > George > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Andrew Baron > To: Antique Phonograph List > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 6:18 AM > Subject: [Phono-L] Melville-Clark reproducer ring inquiry > > > >> Hello all and Happy New Year ~ > > On behalf of a close friend of mine, I'm searching for a diaphragm > retaining ring for the reproducer on his Melville-Clark Apollo player > piano/ phonograph. The reproducer is in fine condition, but is > missing the diaphragm, gaskets and threaded retaining ring. I can > easily help him with the diaphragm and gaskets, but couldn't find > anything close to the retaining ring in my own parts collection. The > ring would be slightly smaller in diameter than an Edison DD > retaining > ring, and would have a slightly coarser thread. > > It's an interesting reproducer with an unusual cross bar arrangement, > and still has its original needle set screw (thumb screw) which has a > conical jewel stylus mounted in its center, for playing Edison > records > (I assume), when the tone arm is repositioned for hill and dale > reproduction. > > Any help at all with the retaining ring or letting me know whether > this reproducer is common to other phonographs would be sincerely > appreciated. The platter appears to be Columbia, but the reproducer > doesn't resemble any Columbia reproducer that I've seen. The piano > itself is quite a lovely piece, very original and well preserved, and > with the nicely engineered spring motor in place of a conventional > wind motor, to turn the piano rolls or the phonograph, according to > the selector lever. The spring is silently ratchet-wound by pumping > the foot pedals, and appears to have an adjustable clutch to prevent > winding too tightly. > > Thanks in advance for any help or insight with the reproducer ring. > Andy Baron > Santa Fe, NM > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1204 - Release Date: > 12/31/2007 12:20 PM > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org