The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

actually for a customer in South america...

outside in

stopped at the historic site on the way to pick up the lathes...

i measured the five feed screws that came with the lathe. they appear to be 1: 120 OI 2: 120 IO 3: 112 IO 4: 112 OI 5: 136 OI the 136 was installed on the machine when i picked it up. i opened the case and removed the original amp cable and connector, cleaned the momentary toggle on the speed select...

crude and ugly, but fully functional and cost 8 bucks to build it. found a single lens 100x microscope on ebay for 19 bucks still in its wrapper, it will be here in a week. rubber rollers and recording head all go out on monday for rebuild, tested the feed screws today, did a video of the inside out...

just for fun...

something i put together this afternoon as a test, seems to work. cheap and easy to make, functional and when painted will look good, best of all it works. i will be using a hobby microscope for now. more than enough power for the grooves and will have a light that will plug into the existing jack w...

we just got back from new york, 2,000 miles in 3 days, drove to new york, picked up the lathes and drove back. got a presto 6d with the original amp, and microphone preamp and five feed screws. a presto k-10 and a j-5. all of them sitting on the floor of my shop running !!! the 6d has five feed scre...

i wanted to get this finished before i left for new york, just made it, leaving in a few hours. this is a $ 10 Dictaphone that has been converted to a cylinder phonograph, yes the fidelity is lacking, tops out about 3,000hz and no low end at all. but it must be remembered that this is a cylinder mad...

both dictation and entertainment cylinders can be shaved to remove the previous recording, a simple machine, basically a lathe, each pass of the cutter shaves off about a 1,000th of an inch, dictation machines cut quite shallow to allow for lots of recordings, up to 100 on a full size dictation cyli...

much improved results, this can compete with any Edison cylinder phonograph, the recording is crisp, clear and quite loud, total cost of this machine was 10 bucks !!! i am using a Walmart transmission funnel as both the recording horn and playback horn. the drive belt for the mandrel is made from du...

WAHOO !!! i leave Friday morning for new york to pick up 4 record lathes. a complete presto 6n with five feed screws and the original amplifier, a presto j-5, a presto k-10 and a presto k-11. all of the machines are complete and in a private collection. i traded a 1916 edison amberola 30 cylinder p...

this is a simple machine i built as a cylinder lathe, i have now made hundreds of recordings on this, we have a store on ebay, WIZARDOFMENLOPARK, http://stores.ebay.com/wizardofmenlopark/ here is the machine, to keep vibration to a minimum i did not mount the motor to the base, it is siting on rubbe...

brown wax cylinder...

the poor mans cylinder phonograph, if your interested in recording on wax cylinders but dont want to spend 100s of dollars on an Edison cylinder phonograph, consider the Dictaphone dictation machine. these machines are cheap and can make first rate recordings. these will cost a tenth or less than an...

i have rewired the machine and installed a 10 foot ac line cord, 8 D cell batteries inside the case, and the machine has an external input for 12vdc as well. when not connected to the computer i am running the machine on ac, for doing transfers to the computer i am using 12 vdc to eliminate any 60 c...

i went to radio shack and picked up 2 4 "D" cell battery holders and wired them in series. the machine had a 12 volt input on the back so i wired the batteries to the existing input jack. i mounted the battery holders inside the case with foam mounting tape. i removed the a/c power cord . the machin...

has anyone tried these ??


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waiting for the weather to clear on the east coast and i'm off to pick up the lathe. in the meantime i am assembling equipment in order to do custom transfers, either to disc or simply mp3 files from cassette, reel to reel etc. just picked this up on ebay for 19 bucks, califone institutional cassett...