The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Here is a link to a company website with an online tutorial on magnetics/ motors/ voice coil motors etc.
Useful knowledgebase for constructing your own cutting head
http://www.consult-g2.com/ Click "Course"
There is also an interesting library of published papers

A couple of items i spotted on ebay. Astatic cutter http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-NOS-Astatic-Record-Lathe-Cutting-Recording-Head-/270703890493?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item3f0735903d Interesting old disc recorder http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WWII-Enola-Gay-B-29-Aircraft-Recording-Lathe-ANQ-2_W0QQite...

Oliver Reads' "The recording and reproduction of sound" 2nd edition, and numerous other books on valve amps etc are available to download free in the technical books/ audio section of this excellent website http://www.tubebooks.org/ :!: Spread the word :!: Or to download mr Reads' excellent book imm...

The places that sell the electroforming stuff also sell sprays one being silver to coat non conductive stuff before electroplating . In small packs too

Awesome project, love it.

RE: Making stampers You can buy nickel electroforming kits like the one here: http://www.caswellplating.com/kits/nef.html
Why not try it out?

Hey TotalSonic, great bit of kit, in your first post........ "Next up is that I need to add a tonearm and do some tests for wow, flutter, speed accuracy and rumble." I have a wow and flutter meter, using 3/3.15kHz test frequency, but i have not been able to find anyone to supply a proper test disc, ...

Can anyone tell me if the shank shown in the above pic is a "standard" or unique to MSS?? etc. i'm OK for now but will need a new one at some point

0.2mm plain copper wire used as stylus heater

Ok I worked it out i think

Yes i have pics, but not sure how to post them, i'm not very computer savvy! i'm oldschool. Help me out and i'll post pics somewhere

Hello Trolls, I am looking for some UK based people with cutting facilities and experience, who can test some new lacquer dub-plates (i.e not suitable for plating) and give honest appraisal. I can't pay cash, but i can reward you with new discs. And if i can make a good product, i wont forget your h...

For messing around with, unwind heater wire from an old electric fan heater. I got Many metres of nichrome out of my old heater!

My old MSS lathe just used plain copper wire about 0.2 mm wrapped around the diamond with short fly leads to a pair of terminals mounted to the side of the cutting head. This seems to give acceptable results, although the wire does burn out quite often, the heating makes it brittle.
It works for me!

I have had limited dealings with only two pressing plants one in the UK and one in the check republic, and they were both doing bootlegs for customers (and not just 1 or 2). Considering i am an industry "outsider" i would suggest that bootlegging is very common, i've got enough UK dance bootlegs and...

Just read thru this thread, i'm not involved in disc manufacture at all, but i do record new material, and buy/sell Vinyl. These points made are all entirely valid and a good idea, but looking at the bigger picture. The AES already set standards etc and they have the clout to make things happen. So ...

Further to my last post about plastic blanks, after looking at some disks cut on a VinylRecorder machine, i have now seen two types, one like a pressed record that was 7" which from reading the latest posts i assume would be a Vestax blank and a 10" that looks to be cut from sheet plastic, presumabl...

The vinyl recorder uses what i believe is pvc, i have used and inspected some 7" discs cut on the vinyl recorder. I believe they are pvc discs pressed in the usual way but with no recording on. I've been buying using and DJing vinyl for nearly 25 yrs so i am confident in my assesment. Some of my tes...

Hello all, I haven't posted here for months, I got fed up with the "go and find it yourself" responses, so i did, but this post is quite refreshing! Been working on my own design for recording lathe with a feedback cutterhead for the past year. My aim was to make a machine able to produce usable one...

Should you make a cutting head??? Yes definitely, i think any enthusiast interested in this technology, should take inspiration from the work already shown on this forum, and take designs further. If you want hands on experience with cutting records and associated eqpt - unless you've got lots of £$...

Yes it is totally possible to design and build a cutterhead, it's not complicated and it's all been done before. It is basically 2 voice coil motors (with feedback coils) coupled together by use of a tool (stylus) holder that is sprung so that the stylus returns to its resting point. Neumann used Be...