The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

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 ...

Injection moulding has certainly a lot of pluses It is a fact that since development as well as refining the process never stopped Unlike our industry which come to a dead stop more than 30 years ago. There is a huge amount of expertise world wide which far surpasses the few in our game. There is no...

Not every lacquer that Goes through the process of plating up is going to finish up perfect The process is simple enough on the one hand with a stack of unknowns on the other. One would have thought that after 100 odd years we would have it all down pat. I am afraid that's not the case at all. As an...

Fantastic well done

That's most likely a bit of paper that found its way in the hopper with the compound. Either from the bag containing the raw material or a little bit left from a label before it was ground up. Some times regrouped material has bits of paper from labels not punched out clean enough. In this case It h...

Lacquers are not known for consistency. Mdc, transco, Apollo, etc all do come softer harder etc. the process simply does not allow for it The comments here are valid of course we have been using all of these for many years after 10k plus sides hard to tell what's what better worst preferred etc. all...