The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

How are you guys making the plastic cones? I tried to make some out of thin plastic sheet, and they're not perfectly round, and 2-part epoxy just peels off (it's PVC). I'll post pictures later

I've been trying to use the spring scale, and maybe I'm not understanding how I should be measuring... As I lift the spring scale up, the measured weight goes up and it lifts the head bracket up. Do I want to take measurements in the position that it's in during cutting for both weight and counterwe...

Here's links to some pictures:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4F669z4dFaOR1VmUkktSjR4ems
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4F669z4dFaObDFxbVV2bVAtekE
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4F669z4dFaOQUtLMl9LS0tSQkE

Yah I took it apart. There's nothing left of the housing it's glued in. I can take pictures of what it looks like without the housing

There's a screw in the back with a sticker over it so you should be able to get to it easily. In retrospect, I should have just dremel-ed the grille off.. Would have been much easier to deal with.

THey are threaded in the back, but they're hard to get the driver out because they're glued in a housing.

Hey Scotty when you get a chance, can you take pictures of your head with the new stylus holder?

I'm going to try making a head, I got Lanzar TWS 1" titanium dome tweeters

Sounds great!!

So you used a 340p stylus? How did you make the stylus holder?

Very awesome, inspiring work!

How are the high frequencies? It seems like that screw you have holding the stylus would add a bit of mass

So it seems like the stylus holder is the last piece of the puzzle. For that I'd think you'd need a tapered reamer. Has anyone done anything else?

How did you make the cone?

Using a spring scale, do I keep pulling it up until the point just before the head starts lifting..?

Ok, so I have a DIY lathe that is similar to a Presto with regards to how the head is held (a bearing that the cutterhead is attached to, and an adjustable spring). I also have a spring scale. How do I go about measuring the counterweight and weight? For weight I'm assuming I take the measurement wh...

Is this the same silicone rubber? http://www.smooth-on.com/Silicone-Rubber-an/c2_1113_1136/index.html

Where did you get the bead from to fit the diamond into? I thought you needed a tapered hole

How thick are the wires that come out of the cones and connect to the stylus holder? Can you tell what type of material it is?

I've used the CurveEQ VST plugin in the past for making EQ corrections.. it's pretty nice, you can take a source file, cut it, record it back, and come up with an EQ curve that will make your source cut correctly. http://www.voxengo.com/product/curveeq/ I believe the trial version will let you test ...

I wonder if acrylic would work... It doesn't emboss, doesn't scratch easily.

Maybe this is a stupid question, but isn't it pretty dangerous putting lighter fluid/charcoal lighter fluid underneath a heat lamp and around all the electronics and everything? I've been wanting to try it, but I can't bring myself to do it.