Castings models only last so long so you sooner or later get around to making them again. Here the rear bracket and side brackets used on we12a and we15 solid wood seen in the previous article. True to original these are for cast iron made from solid wood including core boxes. Not be be confused […]
November 2017 : Some 70km North of Copenhagen during the ETF meeting of 2017 my good friend « B » decided to host a small lecture on Western Electric and some of their amazing technology and testing gear at Bell Laboratories. Amazing stuff indeed! During this small lecture we watched a short film in which you can […]
This is what it takes to get the job done, to make exact replica throats in cast iron. No shortcuts, easier to make brass, no lost wax casting..indeed juts plain and simple cast iron as all the western electric horn throats. Easier said than done! I really love this “very industriel” stage of my production […]
This is a typical section from the sides of the 13a horn, one of the 120 needed to make one 13a horn. The shape is like a propeller, end is rounded to follow horn profile and the two straight edges are not parallel (that would be too easy don’t you think!). These side sections are […]
Tim, Do we know what equipment the first talkies shown in Europe used? If early Vitaphone films (independent disk + film) were shown, it may be that there were 12As imported to Europe for that purpose in which case 12As may have been heard in the 20s or early 30s in Britain and perhaps in continental Europe. An arcane subject, but you’d know better than me. Best, Mark
Mark,
Need to investigate this side. Seems that sound cinema reached the UK circa 1928 so that would nt have been 12a and 13a.