The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

The hiss is because you are most likely using dead needles or using a wrong combination of needles and blanks. The low volume is most likely because your 5c cutterhead has armature rubber that has gotten dried and crusty and is not allowing the armature free movement. And/or the amplifier isnt work...

The hiss is because you are most likely using dead needles or using a wrong combination of needles and blanks. The low volume is most likely because your 5c cutterhead has armature rubber that has gotten dried and crusty and is not allowing the armature free movement. And/or the amplifier isnt work...

I have been working with my Presto and I can get the music to cut in the blank. However I can't get rid of this terrible hiss. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Hello, I have been attempting for the last few months to create a record using a Presto K 8 Record Lathe. However, my experiments have proven fruitless. The machine runs and will cut into the record, however, when I play back the record has an awful hiss to it and the music is barely audible. Could ...

I am a big Record Collector and I want to start making replacements for my 78 shellac records so I can preserve them but also have good sounding records for the many juke boxes that I have. I am looking for the polycarbonate blanks so that I may begin my rigorous testing on creating good records. If...