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Since it's as original as it appears to be, I'd leave the original feet - carefully pry the low foot and slip in a thin washer to level things up. Put a cloth under the machine so it doesn't slip when winding. Didn't realize this post was so old - still trying to figure out why it came up?

I emailed George Valoma and said he might have a replacement governor or I could try, and either replace the wire or remove the center brass collar on the shaft and turn it into one from an earlier machine.

So, I have a governor for my Edison Fireside, and I broke the tensioner wire spring, that I did not know was supposed to bend? Because I didn’t know I should not move the Center collar, and move the one on the top end of the governor. Obviously this, one is history, and I will have to buy a replacement one.

That's a great display. I've owned various rare and special reproducers and related items over the years but always struggled with presentation. As a result, most ended up in drawers. Your solution is perfect.

Fortunately, I acquired most of those things 40 years ago! George P.

Lotsa $$$ in that little display case!!

Thanks Dan! George P.

A really nice display case and a nice way to show reproducers!

A fellow fireside owner said my governor was fine, until the spring on the shaft got bent, but I thought it was supposed to be like that?

Several years ago I picked up this little display case, which was so rusty and dirty that I couldn't tell it was glass (I rubbed it with my fingers to be sure). The other day I finally cleaned it up and began to think about what I could put in it. This morning I made this little display of improvements in cylinder and disc reproducers. These include three different Mobley modifications to Edison and Columbia reproducers, Fletcher and Blackman modifications to Edison Automatics, a Max Wurcker reproducer, a prototype Victor soundbox, an unmarked disc soundbox with ear tube capability, a Lewis Phono-Consonator, and two rather clunky aftermarket electric pickups/arms designed to allow playback through a radio. Sitting behind the case is, appropriately, a Bettini Attachment mounted on a Type A Graphophone. Finally, behind the Bettini is a Victrola Credenza. All this stuff was tucked away on shelves where they weren't noticeable. It's fun to rearrange a little!

I should note, this governor is not original to this machine. When I bought this machine from an antique mall. It was missing a few parts, i.e. the governor. I bought this one off of eBay. Ok, so an oil hole would make sense.

As Henry notes, with a set screw the governor balls could not expand or retract to control the speed. The collar MUST be able to slide along the shaft. The hole could be for oil, or more likely it's simply a recycled Edison part put to a new use, with zero concern about an unnecessary hole. Edison didn't like to waste material so such anomalies are not uncommon.

Hello, I look for various 78 rpm records by Columbia records Italy between years 1946-1959 by Piero Trombetta. I 've already found several titles, but I haven't completed my collection (I can post details about). The most important one I look for is: 78 rpm record Columbia CQ 2177 Year 1951 A. "La canzone della mamma" (Trombetta-Frati) B: "Mendoza" (Costabile-Sibra) both songs by Luciano Monguzzi (vocals), Piero Trombetta e la sua orchestra tipica di tango argentino.

Just a conjecture here, since I'm not familiar with this type of machine, but isn't that collar with the hole supposed to slide up the shaft (i.e, from right to left in the photo) when the governor is spinning? If that's indeed the case, it may be an oiling hole. Also, the hole is not countersunk or threaded, as far as I can tell, so it is doubtless not intended to hold a screw.

I noticed that the governor on my fireside phonograph has two brass collars . The middle collar has a set screw but the collar on the right does not, however there appears to be a hole for screw? I was told on the Talking Machine Forum that i don’t need a second screw? What doesn’t make sense is why would a second hole be drilled in the collar but not need a screw?

Ok I got it and it does seem to play, but parts of the braking system are not attached.

The APS tried... And David refused.

Cloudflare, the TMF service provider(?), had an outage this morning. It knocked out "X" and ChatGPT, (heaven forbid...), as well as the TMF site. All seems fine now.

That's a very interesting comment. Care to elaborate?

David continuously puts up with our nagging and rubbish to keep TMF running. 2 years out from the original post and TMF is still much more active than the APS forum. Despite the instability, the Cloudflare incident is out of Davids control. I think there's just more traffic to TMF. When someone means "the forum", they usually mean TMF. Although this forum is a good backup, there is not enough activity and that's why I use TMF despite the instability. Also, this forum gets 1/2 to 1/3 posts on the main topic per day. While the APS as a resource is great, I think that possibly purchasing TMF might be possible with David being semi-active again. Though, I really don't know the logistics of a lot of this.

There are 2 documented Japanese Kinetoscope films.