The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Marcos Missed this post of yours so here you are Stock Solutions 1.Silver Nitrate: 200 Grams Made up to 1 Litre with De ionized or distilled water 2.Sodium Hydroxide: 160 Grams made up to 1 litre De Ionized or distilled water 3.Reducer: DGlucose 1 KG + 500 mill of Formaldehyde made up to 4 Litres De...

WOW! Many thanks Mossboss! A luxe! I have a powerfull manual hidraulic press i try press 7" without steam only electric heat coils and silicone demouldants and only need time for test more Many many thanks! Marcos Bad move You can get an electric steam generator from a dry cleaning shop at about 3....

Marcos OK this is for electroforming Don't worry it's not that hard to set up If you have tanks for electroplating it is OK make sure there is no metal exposed must be all plastic or ruber coated Any transformer from an electroplating shop will do the job If you are only going to run one cell you ne...

Hey All Marcos is right These are the labels used in auto labeling machines common in say fruit juice, honey, or drink bottles and all kinds of glass or PET type packaging Have you ever tried to peel a label off one of them? They stick on anything they do print them and kiss cut them on one machine ...

Marcos This is the easy part Soak clean in alkaline solution 35-38 Degrees C Working Solution 40 mil of good houshold dish washing Detergent to 1-2 litres water. Morning Fresh is very good Not sure if it is available in Spain? Trisodium phosphate/Teepol was used for years may be that is available th...

anyone know of another source of 7" laquers other than apollo? i'm very close to getting my first lathe worthy of actually making a decent cut and i'm looking to purchase some blanks soon. i'll definately be using apollo for 10s and 12s but their 7s seem pretty pricey. any help is appreciated! :) H...

May be getting warm on this I heard they are not at bargain prices Cheers

Are you sure about all that Aussie? [The other 7" press operator, Phillip, would also make 4 x 7" discs per hour but was not one to read the newspaper at the same time.] Surprised! At this rate, if Philip was pushing 4 x 7" per hour he could have read the Daily Telecrap every day (I must admit not m...

Wellcome to what is called "Monopoly" not the board game either
Good bye Transco 40% price increase They liked the product so much they bought the company
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Hey Monoplex I think you got yourself quite a good basis to start from By the looks of the bits and pieces whoever owned this thing before knew what he was doing so there may be mods there away from a standard machine nothing hard to sort out Hey these machines were never "plug and play" any way, so...

- 100 ton or close to it Yes you do need that amount of Tonnage - plenty clearance for add-on steam, water piping & heating/cooling platens These are bolted on the side as close as possible to the die There is always room on the sides of presses not a big issue - bonus for speed: pump and hydraulic...

Got it, Good Idea
Kim Gutzke USA and Peter King NZ as an example is that right than?

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Gentlemen, I'm sorry to say that we did this in my plant with a steam pressure of 160psi (or was it 150psi??). His name was George and nobody stood there with a whip! But this is assuming that everything is automatic once the record is removed....research time! :D And so what! 4 per minute 5, 10 or...

Hey Cd4Cutter Have to say your description is perfectly correct and quite detailed in so far as Edison Cylinders are concerned I was not intenting to describe methods of production as such except where electroforming was involved May be it is not clear enough however it has nought to do with Edison ...

We are only getting about 120 PSI of steam and cold water, which allows us a 30 second cycle for 7" and 45 second cycle for 12". We can alter the speed a bit but this is where we found the best consistency. Honestly, between trimming the record, checking the grooves on both sides, applying labels, ...

Steve, The Zenith records entry should be Victoria 3020 Thanks Cheers

http://www.totalvinyl.net/ In uk self contained I believe

PALOMINO wrote:Hmmmmm, I wonder....

I did say for the brave Whitehorse so Hmmmmm It's ok
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Listed on ebay under $4K and most likely you could get it for less :) 80 TON MODEL 4-POST HYDRAULIC AUTOMATIC TRIMMER #24505 Item number: 200316672569 This press most likely will do the trick You still need all the add ons like a dieset an extruder as well as some heating and cooling but it is going...

Alpha specifies 22 seconds for a 12" record and 15 seconds for a 7" We can only dream! Yes and NO Here is an extract from a "High Speed Mould" brochure dated about 1976 for a 10 H 537 press manual operation it goes like this: Working Periods 7" 10" 12" 1 Manual work when press open 4 5 5 2 Closing ...