The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Wow. I made the above list when correcting an entry in Wikipedia more than ten years ago and while some numb nut has deleted that from the Wikipedia topic, it's been copied and pasted so many times that it still appears. Haha what a coincidence, I found the majority of the info here: http://www.alp...

List of old press manufacturers:
Alpha Toolex
Fabeldis SA
Philips
EMI Ltd
Southern Machine & Tool company (SMT)
Miller
FineBilt Manufacturing
Hamilton
Lened Inc
Werner & Pfeiderer
Tannus Ton Teknik (TTT)
TCS

The depth of the mould cavity determines the thickness of the record. Am I right in thinking that you need different moulds to produce different weights of records? (i.e one mould for a standard 130-140g record and a different one for a 180g record?) If so that's a considerable amount of investment...

Hi there, First post on here so go easy... :shock: Anyway I am making a table of vinyl record press manufacturers (new and old). I need info on what type of pressers each company made i.e manual, semi automatic and automatic. The definition I am using for manual is: operative has to load 1st label, ...