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by flozki
Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:28 am
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: Ortofon stl-732 limiter
Replies: 28
Views: 7444

in case you dont use it or use something different...... i would be happy to get if price is reasonable...need anotherone. too busy to build a clone.
f.
by flozki
Sun Apr 05, 2009 1:36 pm
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: Ortofon stl-732 limiter
Replies: 28
Views: 7444

my favoorite...if well adjusted and used great
by flozki
Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:20 am
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: http://www.vinylium.ch - Anyone ever deal with the company..
Replies: 15
Views: 3499

im still close to vinylium and go in and out from time to time. but i dont earn any money if they sell a cutter or not. if they reply emails or not and how fast i dont know.but i guess they do. if you sent to the correct adress and if they dont hang in the spam filter. if you want to make sure.send ...
by flozki
Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:49 pm
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: "vinylike" polycarbonate blanks & vinylium sty
Replies: 28
Views: 7859

sorry for the delay
i just a little busy
but new blanks arrived. i have approx. 800 pcs. 10 inch on stock and
some 12 inch and 7inch.

so all is there.

but the shop will be run by martin from ameise. he transfers his shop which was on the apollo.de site...
hope to do soon.

let you know.
by flozki
Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:45 pm
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: http://www.vinylium.ch - Anyone ever deal with the company..
Replies: 15
Views: 3499

hey. communication is a little difficult it seems. forget to get someone on the phone....sometimes trying many times..you will get jvo on the phone. but he is half time traveling and fixing lathes. email works best. but they are around around. but it is not unusual if it takes a week or so, to get a...
by flozki
Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:17 pm
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: "vinylike" polycarbonate blanks & vinylium sty
Replies: 28
Views: 7859

again polycarbonate works only with diamont stylus makrolon should work as well. with diamond. makrolon is just a brand of polycarbonat. with saphire no way. for any other head except neumann sx68/74 and vinylium sc-99 you need to produce an adaptor. when i started cutting i made an adapter myself f...
by flozki
Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:12 am
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: Cutting on Non-Lacquer Discs
Replies: 101
Views: 29413

additionally to say that this is my personal opinion. i dont want to push business neither for vinylium nor for ameise. i left vinylium a few years ago and i dont have any shares from the ameise imperium. they just do damn lot for the vinyl record..... my main intention is that the vinyl and direct ...
by flozki
Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:59 am
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: Cutting on Non-Lacquer Discs
Replies: 101
Views: 29413

hmm. i mainly developed the kingston cutter & sc99 head. so i guess i can estimate whats good and best. for me a freshly cut accetate sounds best.definitely. for the first 10 plays.depending on the needle...maybe more plays. BUT for lot of dubplate cutter user this was often a reason not to buy a ki...
by flozki
Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:21 pm
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: Cutting on Non-Lacquer Discs
Replies: 101
Views: 29413

hello at the moment vinylium make the styli just for neumann,sc99. but i will ask if they can start a production of long-shank, westrex. i let you know or someone from vinylium will post some news.... the background noise is very low but with current souri diamonds, plates there is also almost no no...
by flozki
Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:43 am
Forum: Circuits, schematics and manuals
Topic: haeco sd-240 schematics
Replies: 0
Views: 1978

haeco sd-240 schematics

hello
finally i had the time to scan and i put the schematics on my website.

[url]http://www.floka.com/camps.html[/url]

under haeco you will find the llink.

f.
by flozki
Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:11 am
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: "vinylike" polycarbonate blanks & vinylium sty
Replies: 28
Views: 7859

i think only diamond works.
heating is not required with lexan.
but a good and reliable chip removal.
by flozki
Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:02 am
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: Cutting on Non-Lacquer Discs
Replies: 101
Views: 29413

it is quite durable. i think same as pvc.
but has to be tested.
much harder than an accetate.

i think it only works well with diamond.

f.
by flozki
Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:02 am
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: "vinylike" polycarbonate blanks & vinylium sty
Replies: 28
Views: 7859

"vinylike" polycarbonate blanks & vinylium sty

here as a new topic: ok here is our solution due to the bad distribution politics of apollo we want to make this solution public domain. it will replace the regular accetate dubplate almost. you can use polycarbonate (lexan) plates in combination with the vinylium diamond stylus. perfect chip remova...
by flozki
Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:01 am
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: Cutting on Non-Lacquer Discs
Replies: 101
Views: 29413

ok here is our solution due to the bad distribution politics of apollo we want to make this solution public domain. it will replace the regular accetate dubplate almost. you can use polycarbonate (lexan) plates in combination with the vinylium diamond stylus. perfect chip removal no heating required...
by flozki
Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:00 am
Forum: The Reference Archive
Topic: Can you identify this cutter head? Any info on it?
Replies: 16
Views: 4028

definitely not a westrex. if it would be be a first westrex prototype stereo prototype, then this is a little historical treasure.. then this means its the first westrex stereo head.... but i dont think so. i saw the remaining stock, parts,leftover from westrex, and there where no such parts. also t...
by flozki
Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:54 am
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: A Question For Those Who Have Cut With Diamond Needles
Replies: 10
Views: 3382

i use vinylium diamond stylus and polycarbonate blanks. perfect. perfect chip. low noise. and the stylus is quite durable. you can get at ameise germany: http://www.apollomasters.de/product_info.php?products_id=63&osCsid=6af7fcbc473132b4940eec4728f57900 or directly at vinylium: http://www.vinylium.c...
by flozki
Tue Dec 09, 2008 6:03 pm
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: Make a Lathe out of a printer!!! Yay!
Replies: 9
Views: 3535

hello. i did some testoverheads with old inkjet printers...from time to time i try to make a 100 percent trash lathe...or the $1 lathe still a dream.... i have already big collection of the linear feeds of those printers. if you use HP inkjet then they have a dc motor. i disassembled around 10 print...
by flozki
Thu Nov 27, 2008 4:20 am
Forum: Circuits, schematics and manuals
Topic: Grampian Preamp Jamaika Style
Replies: 20
Views: 9443

any updates yet?
does someone cut already with this type of preamp?

flo
by flozki
Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:18 pm
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: Injection molding vinyl records - ever been done?
Replies: 11
Views: 4671

in belgium at www.vinylium.com (they bought our ttt presses, the whole pressing plants a few years ago -but they have nothing to do with vinylium switzerland...) they have 2 injection moulding machines.... one is refurbished and i saw about 2 month ago the first 7inches coming out of the mould... so...
by flozki
Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:29 pm
Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
Topic: disk-o-mat
Replies: 10
Views: 2533

no the machine doesnt play back
it just records. and after 2minutes...( i limited to 2 minutes at the moment)
the record comes out of the box.....

more pictures will come... i just have to organize and upload them.....