The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

This is a moot point without a clear cut answer, it depends what a plant considers they are doing so as to get your vinyl records Are they providing you with a service or are they selling your goods In the case of the job of making vinyl records it is a half and half scenario Need to first clarify a...

Try a few brands of carpet adhesive in aerosol spray cans it works just the same Phoenix of vinyl in Park Royal used it very recently quite successfully

How about you do a little homework Ask around the places that do produce vinyl what machine they use. That will set you in the right path. Of course you need a decent amount of shekels for a pro setup. If you wish to shorten up the learning curve I suggest you communicate with Flo in the chocolate c...

What a great read. And Joseph!!

Speak to chris king or send him pm. He is here and there. He may give you some tips. Cheers

Capacitors as a rule either work or they don't. A dry capacitor will most likely pop its guts out. If Older electrolytic they are better of if they are on, non polarised caps ether work or do not. Solid state devices same either they work or not. Not sure about well maintained gear, nothing to do wi...

Welcome and please do so.
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Great response. You go a long way son
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On lacquers?

Since there is no way you or anyone else for that matter, able to control it, I suggest you tell the people who you send them to to let them soak in a warm bath for quite a while before they do anything to them A little bit of the cleaning agent they normally use should be added to the warm water pr...

It will happen no doubt. And it will be Modern I am sure.
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Let's see if this makes sense We have a few thousand components say on a cutting lathe or another piece of equipment for that matter We turn on the juice so as to cut a plate play something whatever What happens? Juice flows through the various components which make up the psu system and subsystem A...

In the Cargo hold and not air conditioned.
Minus whatever degrees than back to ambient. They will bleed castor oil therefore stains, crappy looking stampers
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Ball race step up sounds good. Infinitely variable conical drive?
No idea really. The method has been used from industrial machinery, dough mixers, drilling presses etc, to motor cars, dutch small Car, lots of examples out there.
You almost qualify for a Fairchild historian.
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Thanks for the deataiked reply. At the end of the day it sounds like you got it sorted. It sounds to me the box was made by a third party as a general purpose unit rather than specific for the lathe. It sounds like it since no one would have such an intricate setup to achieve two speeds Why would yo...

Interesting little thread here, now if it the gearbox and drive you are looking to obtain manuals for makes some sense in one way but not really required Gear boxes are manufactured in a well established engineering criteria in so far as tolerances ratios clearances etc etc etc It is really a case o...

That may have taken around 10 years to do if not more.
And if these are 7" that's a lot of plastic a Lot of styli and a lot of time standing in front of the lathe.
At say around the 3 minutes x 17 k that is a long long time
Not impossible just time
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Just to put it into perspective 1 tonne of material will make 6000 X 12" records or around 18,000 X 7" At real cutting time on a lathe that would mean a man will stand in front of the lathe cutting away an 18 minute side for: 108000 minutes or 1800 hours or for 75 days with no sleep eating or having...

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Well, may as well let the cat out the bag Been working away for a while now in Miami Fl. So the old "studio one" pressing plant will be back on line shortly. 2 X auto Hamilton presses to start of with followed by another 2 Lened autos ultimately 6 presses. The name! Miami Florida mostly sunny so it ...