The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

hmm with the appropriate tools and some training it shouldn't be too hard to resharpen a stylus i think. i wonder if it's done with CNC machines nowadays.

feel free to send me some old stylii and i'll try my best

lol JayDC, no, its not supposed to be liquid. liquid helium wouldn't do any cooling. It is liquid in the bottle and as soon as it comes out it expands into gas (which makes it cooler) and this cool gas flows through the head

get a SC-99 - no more need for the helium

cool didnt know that, can you upload a picture of your lathe? btw, you can use a piece of metal which you screw onto the axis of your platter to fix the plate to the platter. like a 5cm diameter 0.5cm thick disc with a hole in the middle that fits onto the platter's axis and another hole from the si...

there are prestos with vacuum platters?

for jukeboxes, PVC only, with a large center hole and 1.5mm thick.
souri made his machine for jukeboxes. it works great.
jukeboxes are adjusted to a bit more needle weight than a usual turntable - about 5-7 grams usually.

You need a diamond.
Like this one:
http://www.apollomasters.de/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=63

beautiful!

even diamond doesn't last forever (of course)

10 000? I thought they were more expensive
But then you need extra equipment to get the press working don't you? Like steam and cold water etc? Or is this all included?

thats about 4600 dollars.
I wish "we" had those 3000 dollars, we would pick up the machine since we're near to the doc.
But I think we're doomed

i guess its a noname gearmotor which runs at about 10-30 RPMs at 6.5V (full speed)

you get it only if you buy a vinylrecorder from souri, and you cannot cut it with sapphiere - you need a diamond

no. i guess it's kind of ok. i am no expert and dont have much experience. it just doesnt fit into the image with that nice lathe

Is that a mackie 2408? You let the signal thru there before cutting?

each cut is unique. you cannot reproduce the original.
the medium does not compress the sound.
you probably mean playback distortion, which increases with decreasing groove radius and increasing frequency - an elliptical needle will reduce these distoritions, compared to a spherical one.

with the machine which i have seen it seems to be "glued" into the outer tube with silicone. an option would be to buy the inside-out stuff from souri - it contains another motor which you can use instead of the original one (and which is attached at another place) be careful if you try to take out ...

you mean the extra motor for the precision plate, or your turntables motor?

neither do i have the money nor the knowledge to run such a machine, but still i wonder how much such a beast would cost. 50 000? 100 000? less? more?

lol, the vestax! i would stay away from it, just search on youtube for vestax and you will find a video called "cutting a record with the fucking shit vestax" or something - that tells everything...