The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

markrob wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 26, 2024 3:10 pm

Hi,
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... Best to cut with no RIAA and either add it after playback capture or capture with a flat preamp.

3rd Oct Sin 20-20khz.zip

Mark

Cool test signal! I'll have to test that right away! Thank you Mark.

Nice to hear from you again, and that it continues! Small steps are also steps and ultimately lead to the goal. Many years ago, when I was faced with a seemingly unsolvable task (as a manager in the automotive industry) because the overall scope was too large and confusing, a wise old manager said t...

VACUUM Part 4 - The chip container I actually built the chip container much later, but it fits in with the theme. I would therefore like to present the work here. First I had to rework the CNC-manufactured lid on the lathe. The grooves for the sealing rubber were not deep enough and so the lid woul...

Looks great! Beautiful work, beautiful material. Price is also fair. I already have something like this, but if I didn't, I would buy it. I have one question: Does it rest on the front of the turntable or does it hang completely from the center pivot? And if it rests on the platter, at what distance...

We were thinking about such a solution for extracting copper chips, but unfortunately the relative vacuum pressure is too low and we had to decide on a much more powerful relative screw pump and, as a last resort, we used a supercharger compressor from a Volkswagen, [a real madness of noise], it mu...

We were thinking about such a solution for extracting copper chips, but unfortunately the relative vacuum pressure is too low and we had to decide on a much more powerful relative screw pump and, as a last resort, we used a supercharger compressor from a Volkswagen, [a real madness of noise], it mu...

Do you apply it while the disk is spinning and let it dry? Or does it need rubbing for drying? Fer Hi Fer! A video says more than 1000 words: So, I made a quick video for you: 1. dripping with wax 2. massage in the wax with a microfiber cloth 3. spray on antistatic 4. massage in with another microf...

The pictures are good and easy to recognize. At times no cut! Cut starts, runs for a few seconds, then cut ends again. Is that the way I see it? The video also shows the vibrating head well. Although the slab blank is flat. Music can be heard. The stylus looks good. My question: Does this also happe...

I have been using this for years. https://cramolin-shop.de/antistatik-spraydose-200ml.html Without this spray, the cutting thread usually remains in the groove and is difficult to remove. The "crackling" noise is also almost eliminated. Do not smoke as flammable, do not inhale, causes eye irritation...

VACUUM Part 3 - The practical construction 11/2023 For a test setup, I cut, drilled and glued plywood panels and lined them with sound insulation mats: The closed housing is absolutely quiet. I don't have a dB meter with me, but it's about as loud as whispering. . . 70_01.jpg 70_02.jpg 70_03.jpg 70...

It's getting better and better!
My favorite cats are...

Cat People from David Bowie:
"See these eyes, so green
I can stare for a thousand years..."

Do you know that too? I'm always putting things off because I have so many more important things to do. But it's often the really important things that I put off. Thank you Phoenix for reminding me! So I went straight to the lathe today and built the attachment: stamper_01.jpg stamper_02.jpg stamper...

VACUUM Part 1 - The side channel blower 11/2023 I also wanted to report on the extraction system. I have already mentioned this in another forum report, but I would like to complete it here. For me, only a side channel blower came into question. Firstly, only this generates a uniform vacuum because...

diy_cutter wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:43 am

Thomas, thank you for all your hard work! And also for sharing all this with us!

THX

Can we get a picture? The picture is coming! I just have to turn the retaining screw on the lathe. Unfortunately this has been delayed several times because I had to make other parts, then the material was gone and then I misplaced the sectional drawing with the dimensions. Excuses, excuses, excuse...

piaptk wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:00 am

... Putting a stereo head on a k8 would be like putting Formula One tires on a moped...

I love it when complex systems are presented simply - Great!

as far as negatives of records go: they sound surprisingly like the record themselves as long as you play them backwards. like a user mentioned above you can make a negative of a record with some woodglue and try for yourself. here's a glue negative copy of a record, played forwards and backwards o...

Great idea! Looks great, creatively in keeping with the theme. And yet another way to place the record. I like it that way.
Thomas

THX for over (unbelievable) 5,000,000 views It was almost exactly three years ago that I started my project. I started reporting on it (with a delay) in July 2022. In the meantime, I have presented over 600 images and numerous videos and audios. I work on the project (including research and investi...

GROOVE DEPTH CONTROL - SUPPLEMENT 11/2023 I wanted to find out a little more about the GROOVE DEPTH CONTROL before I got down to other (more important) things. And also because I claimed that changing it too quickly would result in a noise that doesn't belong there. And so I asked myself whether I ...