The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Anyone any idea about any stampers left behind at mr. Ted's old place, or perhaps anything (names, addresses, contacts) about these German pressing plants where he (as he had always told me) had outsourced his pressings? For quite a few of these stampers/metal parts are mine, so nowadays I cannot re...

Hello, I'm terribly afraid we're dealing here with some sort of ID fraud, for I, Guy Tavares, the owner of Motorwolf records, a small record label in the Netherlands, and 'owner' of this account, have not been active at all on this forum for more than a year, so anything said and done in my name on ...

Vinyl Record plant for sale: No lathe (sorry is sold) Silvering booth + gun Electroforming baths 6 cells 1 inch center punch Stamper edge trimer Stamper backsander 1 x automatic vinyl 12" records press No boiler (sorry is sold) Di Water treatment Air compressor Vacuum pump Cooling tower Grundfos pum...

thanks for that, steve!

for your information:
just found out about a sympathetic UK pressing plant that so far offers picture discs (and other vinyl products) for very friendly prices:

DMS limited, in plymouth

anyone can see what cutter head model that is?
does it have 33 rpm? and are those jack inputs for line signal and microphone?

thanks

thanks a lot for all the info, but i tried to watch your picture, though it demanded a password!

thanks, just read a preview to the coming lathe troll wiki, already very informative, like tommy polycut's trick to turn a saffire stylus 180 degrees to emboss PC, i'm looking forward to his complete explanation and I'm starting to figure out what's suitable and realistic for me more and more! your ...

oh, and i've just found a very informative topic on the forum regarding cutting acrylic, I shall inform all about my own experiments with plastics in the future!

just to be sure i'm not confused: with acrylic compound I assume you mean PMMA ''acrylic acetate'' or perspex/plexiglass? so for how many hours can you ''carefully'' cut that (on average) before a ruby stylus is worn? since this material is a thermoplast, much more than lexan, it's sounds very inter...

well, peter, thanks, this is exactly what I needed to hear! first of all: if ever I was doing it for the money, i'd be selling underwear on the market, certainly not running a crazy music record label or singing and drumming in an insane drug rock band! and being a squatter punk all my cockroach lif...

and damn', you're right: radius, not diameter! how silly of me...

oh, yes, the modern stereo mix that won't sound nice in mono, but I luckily happened to learn already a long time ago to check out all my stereo mixes on a mono system first, before all thumbs would go up.

yes, I've heard of peter king's turtle wax, but does this really mean souri's de-ionisator is not necessary to prevent static build-up on the very cutting needle itself, clogging up swarf around it? and if diamond styli are too expensive, what would you suggest to use on pvc/vinyl blanks from my pre...

- 45 watt by 8 ohm, so my quad 50e mono block seems to be made for it. and regarding phase I was referring to stereo mix phase trouble, which should not be relevant for mono cutting I guess. - 30hz to 13khz is perfect for me, just had my ears checked with a tone generator, above 14,5 k I couldn't he...

and here i'll have another retarded question regarding feedscrews: assuming it's for a machine that works with a fixed pitch, like many prestos and rekokuts, the amount of Lpi (loops per inch?), together ofcourse with the volume and amount of low-freq's, indicates the maximum amount of time per side...

I'm hopefully trying to get a fairchild 16" transcription tt as a basis for this set-up, ''and if it don't fit, we'll make it fit'', hahaha... hmm, I would also still need to find a 16" tone arm for playback of this monster. any suggestions regarding the electronic input-signal part? like the cuttin...

oh, and does it include a cutter head? if so, presto 1D,C? audax?

what presto k model is it? k8?, k10? with cutting amp? overhead? pm me for price indication if you like...
cheerio, guy

wow, this looks promising, surely it's not me who instigated this, hahaha ...
but it will save all newbies a lot of time! and you guys answering the same ol' questions over and over again.