The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Anybody have experience with these? I want to say model no. is0043 but it's hard to read. Got it with a Rek o Kut M5. Seems to have a crappy high end performance and a distorted bottom end. Could be my amp, but it sounds fine thru speakers. I've rebuilt a 1-c successfully before so I'm sure I can ha...

The complete challenger is indeed an all in one unit. The one in the box will need an external amp. The 92-b will be good. Unfortunately I don't see any heads on the second one or the spare overhead. The suitcase lathe is a meissner, needs a ton of work and not worth much, the other presto unit appe...

Great work!. I haven't had any problems with my gears wearing or breaking on my k10 and I have the original gears. I would think there's something wrong with your gear allignment to cause that

All good as I suspected. I've got a manual on order so I can sort out the preamp. There's some loose wires and some suspect repairs done that I need to address. Then I I can start poking around in the Capehart flip over 78 changers I got in the same sale. (After I finish replacing the floors and cha...

Also , thanks for your insight, Sue. You're a credit to this group.

It looks just like the redhead cartridge on the needles site.

I think this an m100a or possibly m100b mech? Don't know if it's original to the unit. I'll check the SN# when I get a chance to narrow down when it was made.

Here's a couple. One I took and one snatched from the auction page

I'm still new to the world of Seeburg jukes but I think I have the red head on it, which would be ok with microgroove. It sounds like shit on my shellac 78s. I think cause it's bottoming out in the groove. I'll just have to cut some tests to find out.

I just got a 78 rpm Seeburg home library jukebox and my 78 collection is lacking, so I wanna cut some new records for it. It holds 100 10 or 12" discs. I know on older lathes where the carriage is coupled to the platter, the play time is limited by the speed, but that's not the case on a VR, so is t...

Got some cool shizz from an estate auction. Seeburg home library unit (jukebox guts without the coin op stuff), a couple of postwar capehart flip over record changer mechs, an early capehart 10-12 changer mechs and a victor v-225 changer mech

The profile of the cutting stylus is narrower, and a steel gramophone needle at the headweight they play at will wear out a record super fast. But if you play it back with a super sharp cactus needle it can work.

This is some really nice work!

185 grams seems really heavy to me, even for embossing. I'd definitely lighten up on that weight. When embossing on my presto with a reversed standard pitch sapphire I think I'm around 50, cutting with a sapphire or diamond it's around 15-20. The extra weight of embossing will cut your high frequenc...

We eliminated Souri's system for a more direct signal path and run all the eq curve stuff in the DAW and just split the signal to the two amps. Took a bit of tinkering to get it dialed in and balanced but sounds great. On the vac side, it's a single vac to a pvc tee to each chip jar.

Ok, just to clarify, the k8- wasn't introduced til the mid 1940s

There's a manual uploaded in the references forum, it should have a schematic for the amp. Off the top of my head I think the tubes you need are 2 45 triodes, 1 80 rectifier, and 4 6v6s? But check out the schematic, I could be wrong on that. Probably a good idea to recap it too. Piaptk can probably ...

Well shit you're right. Its been a few years since I messed with them but I realized where I got that misconception from. When I cut a 78 rpm and it played back fast my brain didn't make the connection that it played fast because it was cut slow so I assumed it was 45. I couldn't cut 45 so I just mo...

Yes, they do play at 45. I have a few of them and the books and cards they play, see my previous post. It's not the same mech as a talking doll or the mighty tiny or those mini record players from the 60s. It's a similar basis, but I've taken those apart as well and they were acoustic. These players...