Brush Dev. Co. "Mail-A-Voice" lathe on eBay

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Brush Dev. Co. "Mail-A-Voice" lathe on eBay

Post: # 22671Unread post Angus McCarthy
Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:10 am

This answers the question of what machine those little black crystal heads would have gone to.

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Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:33 pm

What "little black crystal heads"? The Mail-A-Voice is entirely magnetic and doesn't cut like a lathe.
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Post: # 22747Unread post piaptk
Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:15 am

That's cool.. I have a "GE PLAYTALK" that looks like the kid's version of that thing... Uses a tape head to record sound onto a magnetic disc.
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Post: # 22769Unread post Angus McCarthy
Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:11 pm

emorritt wrote:What "little black crystal heads"? The Mail-A-Voice is entirely magnetic and doesn't cut like a lathe.
Ah, yes. Looking further into it you are correct. The disc threw me since it looked grooved. Sill, a neat machine, and not entirely unrelated.
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Post: # 22798Unread post emorritt
Thu Jan 24, 2013 8:37 pm

I had one of these years ago; the actual recording disc is made of heavy paper doped with a magnetic coating and the curved arm is guided across the surface in a concentric spiral by a grooved plastic disc that sits in the center of the turntable. The pin that follows the guide disc has a knob on it so it's adjustable such that if one person's machine wasn't exactly aligned you could 'search' for the recorded track until you got the best signal.
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