The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Maybe someone was trying to make turntable motor like Lyrec SM8?
Maybe someone has drawings of this motor or has damaged unused SM8 motor?
I'm trying to do similar motor and faced with some problems.

Jonas.

Thanks for the explanations, Bryan, can you show a side view of your head in working position above record. I want to see head position, and how long the stylus goes out of the head. I see that my problem is that my stylus is too short, and when I try to reach necessary stylus cutting angle, head bo...

I’m making record cutting lathe, and use Ortofon cutting head DSS 661. When I put cutting stylus into head, I saw, that it is impossible to achieve correct vertical cutting angle, because stylus mounting hole is not perpendicular to head bottom. I must incline head a lot, head bottom begins to touch...

I'm from Lithuania.

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Some specifications about my lathe project. Mechanically lathe works very good expect cutting head, which is incomplete. Now I‘m working with head, make experiments, measurements, and tests in order to achieve good cutting results. I can not present cut samples now because they are still not satisfi...

Recently I finished to make my vinyl record lathe. If someone would want such lathe, I can to make the same. Short description: Base – 450 × 200 × 100 mm granite stone. Platter - Ø 340 mm, 50 mm thickness, aluminium with acrylic insert, with vacuum record suction, weight 12 kg. Belt drive type. Moto...