The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

just two remarks.
the sp-02 is also 12 pole....

and they made 30 dmm lathes at least. prob. 35.
have a nice weekend.

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okay here another piece of trash engineering. the no cost dampening. very effective. we had the disk-o-mat at an openair. and i never had time to add the cutter oil dampening. but its absolutely necessary for automatic head operation. so took what was around at the place. 1 cup of an empty vodka bot...

okay here another piece of trash engineering. the no cost dampening. very effective. we had the disk-o-mat at an openair. and i never had time to add the cutter oil dampening. but its absolutely necessary for automatic head operation. so took what was around at the place. 1 cup of an empty vodka bot...

it doesnt display?? hmm.

okay here another piece of trash engineering. the no cost dampening. very effective. we had the disk-o-mat at an openair. and i never had time to add the cutter oil dampening. but its absolutely necessary for automatic head operation. so took what was around at the place. 1 cup of an empty vodka bot...

okay here another piece of trash engineering. the no cost dampening. very effective. we had the disk-o-mat at an openair. and i never had time to add the cutter oil dampening. but its absolutely necessary for automatic head operation. so took what was around at the place. 1 cup of an empty vodka bot...

okai. here another piece of trash engineering. the no cost dampening. very effective. we had the disk-o-mat at an openair. and i never had time to add the cutter oil dampening. but its absolutely necessary for automatic head operation. so took what was around at the place. 1 cup of an empty vodka bo...

actually it is an ortofon head. i think they just labeled with jvc. i had the amps for this head. they build they own amps ( quite nice but not super funky stuff ) for jvc quadro setup. at jvc cutting room in new york they had jvc amps and the red and blue ortofon heads. plus scully "the lathe" LS76...

i think if the formulas are from the 40ies or 50ies the ip (patent) protection is long gone. so they are even published somewhere...its just hard to find them. i think the main interest is historic. to understand the different formulas. and as i said for archive or restauration people it would be go...

i think this is like putting a mercedes star on top of a 50ies buick or so... two nice machines. but they dont go together. its a big smash on any aesthetic eye. an original scully looks damn good. but this. i dont know why people had such strange ideas to put a neumann turntable on a scully. this w...

at the moment the record lenght is 1.5 minutes. which is for most people too long. so i will put to 1 minute or better i will add a end button so you can stop after the time you want and extend to 2.5 minutes.... speed is 45. at the moment we show it in bern at an exhibition. until sunday http://www...

hello. it would be great if you can make it public domain. or at least publish one or two receipts. i think to get some formulas as a starting point would be great. also from a historic point of view. i think for conservation of old laquer disks this is important information. if you need a place to ...

wow.great lathe. i would go for it even it goes more than 500.
it looks very solid.and in good shape and that the most important thing.
the only not so nice thing is the cutterhead.
but that can be changed later....
grab it you will have a solid basis for cutting.

ups sector5 now is what used to be optimal

2nd dmm lathe from europadisk found a good home in my cutting room.... i use it mostly for laquer disks. john kremer in cologne, germany. then there is optimal in germany i think (also scieno..?) and celebrate also in germany, thy produce their own blanks as well. the dmm we used at vinylium was sol...

yes this is a really bad example of technical history. someone put together any random piece of cutting equipement. i guess they just put together what they could get. but i think then it is better to show nothing , than this in such a bad context. maybe the better would have a few pictures to show ...

here the circuits i used for test on my dsikomat it is a VIVANCO cd_to_phono convertor i found on the fleamarket. i just changed one resistor. now the attenuation is not that high. only 20db on 1 kHz. ok the 20khz curve is 2dbs off or so. but thats fine for simple heads like moving iron (prestos) i ...

i agree with lewis. i read somewhere else an articel about the mastering at motown. and they mentioned the same lathe. the quality is the same as it was with a vms66 ot vms70. same mechanics. the only thing they had was fixed pitch. so to verify we can grab just a few motown 7inches from back in the...

hello. just did the first cut on my new disk-o-mat. version 2. this time i built all from scratch. turntable, carriage all. for first tests i use my "testpilot" grampian with a passive riaa encoder. the passiv riaa i will present in the schematics section later. so here some pictures from the mechan...