The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

awesome set up! Are you gonna be cutting skipless scratch records with the lathe?

It kinda sounds like its picking up the vibration from the rubber puck runnin the platter?

It might be that the cutting needle could be getting dull?
Have you tried exchanging needles for a fresh one?

i removed the metal casing and looked inside and everything looks alright from what i see. I do not smell any burned up smell. i do notice that the plastic material that is around the coil looks a little warped. Maybe from the head heating up. i can run sound into it and i can hear it. its just afte...

By checking do you mean, touching one probe to the metal casing and another probe to one of the leads to see if it beeps?

If so it does not beep.

I also checked by touching both probes to the leads coming out the head and it beeps.

Whoops! I forgot about adjusting the probes to zero on the analogue meter.
After adjusting it. It reads around 4 ohms

there probably is a short in the head

Ok i was checking the dc resistance with 2 different multimeters and i am getting different readings?

The head was acting good until i made a mistake & did not check the levels of a song i was cutting and sent it a very loud signal. I did not know it was loud until about 3 minutes into the cut. Thats when i felt the head and it was hot. Ever since then the head gets hot when i am cutting normal leve...

Hello! Thank you for all the help and replies. I checked the resistance of the head and it measures around 4.9 to 5 ohms I also checked the armature. And realined it and made sure it was straight and used a piece of paper to make a gap on each side. I checked the grease thats inside thats used for d...

Thanks for the reply Markrob. The temprature of the head after 20 minutes of cutting is pretty hot. To the point where i cant leave my finger on there. At one point before It started acting this way i accidently send a really strong signal into it and quickly the signal. After that incident it has b...

Hello, i noticed my cuttinghead starts to get really hot after just a few minutes of cutting. The level i am sending into it is not distorted when played back on recordings. Its actually really low! Ive turned down the cutting level to the point where the recordings are really low to the point where...

I have that same question too. I usually have gotton back my stampers when i would have aardvark mastering do the master and have it sent to united record pressing. United would usually send the plates back withen a month or two after i have gotten my order. But this time i went a different route an...

The swarf came off differently on some of the xrays.
Some would come off nice and go towards the center and other ones would come of in strands and kinda stuck to the xray.

I would then have to lightly scrape it off.
They all played nice with no surface noise. I cut 35 one sided xrays.

I did not use any heat. Maybe i should have.
Because now my needle seems to be cutting bad now!
I have tried adjusting the angle but now it just sounds horrible.

Before the shank going bad.
The records were sounding really clear and loud with no surface noise.

I have recently cut some xrays using myshank diamond stylus.

Any other cutting shank will not have good results (sapphire, ruby)

so i picked up a Diamond needle from The Shank and i cut a xray and got really good results!

Any other needle will not work on a xray.

Thats a Awesome set up!
Good job constructing that.

Here is a frequency chart that came with my MS 52H just in case anyone is curious about its response

I have a question about setting up the Diamond shank. I was looking at the pdf from Deep Grooves mastering on adjusting the angle of the shank to 15 to 20 degrees. Does this apply to all diamond needles (myshank, deep groove)? http://www.deepgroovesmastering.com/share/Plastic_Cutting_Guide.pdf I sen...

The reason i was just asking for lower count feedscrews was that i wanted to try and make some roulette records or double groove disc.

But if the demand isnt there no worries.