Presto 1C 1D repair options.

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Presto 1C 1D repair options.

Post: # 32515Unread post monkey1553
Thu Dec 04, 2014 6:28 pm

Hi all,

Anybody know any options for repair of a Presto 1-D? I know Gib can fix them but was just curious if there was anyone else in the states repairing these heads.

Thanks!

Michael

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Re: Presto 1C 1D repair options.

Post: # 32516Unread post EmAtChapterV
Thu Dec 04, 2014 7:08 pm

There's this guy - http://www.lathetrolls.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=100097 - but he's in Australia.

What's wrong with your 1D?

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Re: Presto 1C 1D repair options.

Post: # 32526Unread post monkey1553
Fri Dec 05, 2014 4:53 pm

Thanks, Yeah, I just have a dead one. Not sure what's going on but it's a 500ohm and I'd like to get it rewound to 8ohm. I noticed Presto repair in Australia looks like he's doing some great work. Just was curious what our options were stateside.

Thanks,

Michael

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Re: Presto 1C 1D repair options.

Post: # 32537Unread post opcode66
Fri Dec 05, 2014 10:47 pm

I can wind coils.
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Re: Presto 1C 1D repair options.

Post: # 32734Unread post piaptk
Thu Dec 18, 2014 2:08 am

Have you talked to Gib about repairing them recently? Last I heard he was out of the game. About 3 years ago, after paying him in advance, he "repaired" two heads that smoked immediately upon running a light load through them (he never actually plugged them up to cut to test them, just tested them as playback heads), I sent them back and waited for 6,7,8,9 months with no replies to my emails or phone calls, and out of the blue get them back in the mail with a note (and no refund) that said "I'm too busy to mess with this".
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Re: Presto 1C 1D repair options.

Post: # 32780Unread post grooveguy
Fri Dec 19, 2014 11:06 pm

Hi, Michael,

My first cutterhead was a Presto 1D, it came on an RCA lathe I begged from a radio station. Things like that were being junked back then; this was about 1961. That head was 500 ohms, and although the coil was good I had nothing convenient to drive it. So I pulled it apart, stripped all the fine wire from the two bobbins, and re-wound it with #32 magnet wire. After reassembling it (two thicknesses of typewriter paper to shim the armature from the pole pieces), it worked like a champ. Drove it with a Seeburg juke box amp. Still have the head.

If you're mechanically inclined, this is not rocket science. If you don't feel up to the job, maybe you have a friend who does. Takes about an hour and a half, if I recall. Damn, that was more than 50 years ago!

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Post: # 32789Unread post Presto Repairs
Sat Dec 20, 2014 3:41 pm

EmAtChapterV wrote:There's this guy - http://www.lathetrolls.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=100097 - but he's in Australia.

What's wrong with your 1D?

Big Thanks for the mention EmAtChapterV

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Re: Presto 1C 1D repair options.

Post: # 32830Unread post opcode66
Sun Dec 21, 2014 6:22 pm

I can repair any mono coil. If that is all you need done, I can help out i the USA. If you need parts machined, I am not able to do that outside of plastic printing.

I've posted videos of my RCA coil repair and a bit on how I'm winding flat multilayer coils as well. Check my youtube channel.

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