Hi Gang!
Have any of you noticed that the earliest ones have a braided copper shroud on the SINGLE CONDUCTOR magnet wire? The braid is the AC return. At time of purchase & afterwards, I'd not noticed this detail until I happened to be running trains in the darkened room & saw sparks on the pulley at the front end of the boom and on the loop that's on top of the magnet? This means that there were at least two different magnet assemblies made once the design was changed to the much more common double lead wire type.
I just had a kaboom thought: (I love puns): did any of the early ones ever come out of the facfory with the super rare grey booms found on the 481 (tinplate) wreckers?
I'm still working on the train related audio files that I've promised to post & found a few more by searching shelves for (of course) something else that I 'need' to find.
The item's a 10" 78 custom pressed by Victor for the B & O's (1926) Centennial celebrations. It contains the B & O's men's chorus singing something that's ferroequinological. I rediscovered some late twenties or early thirties actuality recordings pressed by Gennett (a pivotal early recorder of jazz) for film and radio production use. They preceded the A-Koostikin disk. Have any of you ever seen any references to their use by retail customers or perhaps in hobby & dept. store, trade shows, or manufacturers' display rooms?
Best,
Shiffy48
282?
282R?
Rob
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