The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

good question.

it's a mono RCA head, with a self-made heater circuit faceplate. it's an efficient, safe method for getting heat to the stylus. Similar to a Capps heater faceplate. but without the springs. You wrap the heater wire around the two copper leads protruding from the barrier strip

Preliminary 10-day window...Make offer! Custom unit. comes with: Vacuum Heated Stylus Control Panel (XLR-RCA-1/8-1/4, Switches for : Heat, Vac, Lamp, and auxillary) RCA Mono head Lafayette Amplifier with taps for 4/8/16/500 OHM Pocket Microscope Upholstered, with stylish curtains! Blank acetates Fle...

ROLANDJAYS wrote:This is a new trend people are jumping into .

Uhhh... yeah it's a new trend alright. 1877 baby. Hot shite.

Dietrich is right. Everyone puffing smoke and stamping feet about steep prices: If you don't want it, don't buy it and don't raise hell about it. what about this type of behavior? It's nothing we haven't seen before. People wanting millions for this stuff. but it sits forever. http://1.bp.blogspot.c...

Aussie0zborn wrote:...Maybe $1,000 - $2,000 would be OK. ...[/i]

you have to be kidding me here. that is completely unheard of. That's the cost of one presto 6N.

not my auction by the way

too steep for you...

I would say due to rarity and age this is a half-justified price. I have never seen a neumann transcription unit like this. very amazing

I put that bid on there.

the reserve never met.

Aussie0zborn wrote:
Al Grundy's last AM32B lathe was sold for US $5,000.

That lathe was so ridiculously incomplete, and it went for 5,000. You can't compare incomplete prices to fully working

Supply and demand...the market shall speak

It's the finest lathe ever produced.

I suggest you liquify your belongings and go all in with this

hey nice work with these heads as of late. The re-magnetizing thing is big help for lots of people

i read through the post but saw no description of the program you used to scan those magnetic frequencies. Is it just a simulator or are you scanning the head with a device?

fenrir19 wrote:Frequency response 60/8000 hz

3700$ ???????

we're talking about some rare material here.

the numbers don't lie

yeah seriously

You're just going to have to take the plunge and find out for yourself.

very interesting work. I am a bit envious. I work on RF engineering projects for cellular radio networks. I go about my work daily wishing i was part of the golden age of radio communication; Western Electric antennas, Presto 6N cuts in the mail, no safety harness... I feel the radio tower work and ...

Yes, this is as I suspected. I have no expectation for this process to be easy. Merely looking for a degree of future-proofing. I suppose when the time comes, I should just get one of Souri's machines. Is the K-8 worth getting, then? What kind of frequency response is it possible to achieve with a ...

How difficult would it be to fit a mono lathe (such as a presto K8) with a stereo cutterhead? It seems like it would be incredibly complex, but I don't know much at all about how these machines function. You're talking about fitting a $5000 head on a $1000 unit. If you want to transport your ferrar...

Actually every single question on here has been asked and answered twenty times over on this forum... Even considering stereo cutting off the jump is overshooting the mark big time. Most who can cut stereo are $20K/10+ years invested. It's 4X as difficult as cutting mono. Big things have small begin...

you may not want to send it in to be rewound. Look at the amp above. See where it says "25V"? you may want to find an amp with the 25V/70V taps, those WILL drive 500 ohm cutterheads. Trust me on this one, I searched and searched and searched, as I have several 500OHM heads; and finally discovered th...

dietrich do you have the terminal attachment cap for this head? they are hard to come by, easier to manufacture yourself than to find