The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Obvious, but: Are your clients mostly local? Invite them in to use your quality control room at the plant, with the added bonus of checking the possible issues together. Hi Lupu! Thanks for your reply. No, they aren't. Our clients aren't mostly local, so it's impossible to invite them here to check...

Hi everybody! How do you manage the test pressing quality control with your customers? (this is specially addressed to pressing plant customers' service department) As our small pressing plant is growing more and more, we do more test pressings and we are facing the shitty turntables and awful custo...

PM'd, Chris!

Very interesting post! Always curious about how it's made and if there's any selling tool that could make it. A little bit related, still looking for any manufacturer that could provide us with a die/punch for making the "4-prong" center hole which also appear on the attached picture. Any suggestion...

Not at all, my friend!

Hello!

For sale the following items:

- Finebilt press for 7" (manual)
- Finebilt press for 12" and 7" (semi-automatic).
- Vickers hydraulic pump
- Tracy-Val extruder
- Stamper center punch
- Forming tools

PM for more info.

Best regards!


Krakatoa Records

Hello my friends! I hope you are healthy and keeping the f****** virus away from you. We are looking for a quality used stamper punch, like the old Sibert, for example. We know they have a modern cabinet with a highly updated punch but we are also looking for a cheaper one. Any of you know some offe...

Hi everybody and happy new year! I hope you keep away the Covid and you and your family and friends are healthy. Here in Spain things are going worst everyday...not totally lockdown, but partial... Let's go to the point: here at Krakatoa Records we are planning to make important improvements and we ...

llary wrote:So what did you end up buying (if anything) and any thoughts?

Hi! We finally bought a Pheenix Alpha AD12. Very happy with it!!

Hello vinyl family! We at Krakatoa are looking for more presses to add to our current installation, so we are asking for new ones (which prices are easy to know) and used ones, which we prefer Toolex Alpha machines and, if its possible, that it condition is very good and don't need so much work of r...

Hi, nice to meet y'all. I operate a WarmTone in daily production and have had experience with Toolex Alpha and SMT presses in other plants. I have never tried the Pheenix Alpha or Newbilt hands on so I can't comment on their mechanical operation. As you will tell I'm kind of a WT fanboy... Any othe...

Hello! Thanks for your reply. More than a competitive comparison or spare parts supplier, I'm looking more for a "description" or "knowledge" topic. I'm not looking for "the best pressing machine in the world" but experienced people who maybe had worked with this new machines and could talk about pr...

Hi!

I didn't know it...do you have any video, picture or website link where it can be seen?

Thanks for the update, Aussie!

K.

Hello folks! How are you? I hope this holidays were good to everyone and you could spend nice time with family and friends. Beginning this 2018, we would like to start a topic about new auto pressing machines experiences and opinions. I'm talking about WarmTone (Canada), Newbilt Classic (Germany) an...

Anyone know if there's any similar event in Europe? It could be great to have an event like this here!

Thanks and congratulations for this vinyl purpose!

K.

Hello everyone! First of all, thanks all of you for your advises! Finally, after improving steam and cooling times, and trying different PVCs, we resolved the problem, so those marks on stampers don't appear anymore and, in consequence, not in the records. We are now very concerned about some marks ...

Congratulations for the initiative!

It would be wonderful to have one of this in Europe!!

Someone dares?

Cheers!

K.

Hi friends!

Any update in this story?

Yes, Steve! Congratulations and happy 10! You have managed to build up THE forum.

So, thanks a lot to you, Steve, and thank you very, very much to all the people that share their wonderful knowledge in this freak world.

Big up to everyone!

K.

Not yet, Steve...It's so strange...

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