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by Marcheslav
Thu Mar 11, 2021 12:36 pm
Forum: Experimenters' & Innovators' forum
Topic: My DIY cutter up to now..
Replies: 17
Views: 5826

Re: My DIY cutter up to now..

dmills wrote:
Thu Mar 11, 2021 11:30 am
Cutting does require rather more torque then is common on most playback decks, you are after all removing material, and worse the forces vary with the cut, so a fairly butch direct drive is usually favourite, ideally with a servo loop to maintain speed.
So is that what the stanton deck has?
by Marcheslav
Thu Mar 11, 2021 11:07 am
Forum: Experimenters' & Innovators' forum
Topic: My DIY cutter up to now..
Replies: 17
Views: 5826

Re: My DIY cutter up to now..

Hello, I have been looking into building my own lathe like this and I have a bunch of questions. I am super new to this so I don't have any assumptions built in so if I ask something obvious it is unintentional. 1. Why did you use a lead screw? I sort of got the impression that a lead screw did not ...