The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Hello, Cool thread! I was wondering what happened with all these experiments? Status update? I just picked up about 1000 shellac records for $5 (the place just wanted them gone!) and I took some of the broken ones, crushed them up in a drywall bucket with a sledgehammer, and tried melting them in a ...

Does someone in this thread have any 3d models of their printed cutterheads to share? My department is (hopefully) getting a 3d printer this fall and I would love to try my luck printing one out thats design has worked well for some of you posting here...

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Hello, I have two Wilcox-Gay A87's. I have been trying to get at least one working for recording on plastic plates. The closest I have to getting sound recorded on a plate is by whistling into the supplied microphone very loud and high pitched. I tried recording from my iphone/computer 1/8" -> mic i...

thanks for the tips! at the moment im looking for something to drive it i have around the house. i will give it a go with cranking the home kenwood with te cutter head attached to the speaker output... maybe you know of a 500 ohm example? i see things like this that output high impedance: http://www...

So i have a recordio a-87. it has a astatic x26 cutting head. the internal amplifier does not work (yet at least). I ran a line from the 1/4" headphones jack of my Kenwood receiver for a test, to the astatic x26. I could clearly, although faintly, hear sound. I thought... good news!!! So I tried a t...

Hello, I have an Astatic x26 and the screw at the end of the head that holds the needle in place (shank?) is broken. I've been all around ton (ithaca,ny) looking for a screw that would replace it but no luck. Does someone know where i can find a replacement? OR the type of screw it is? I am assuming...