The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

These are "modern" but get the ones that are with gold plated contacts available at RS in Milan Italy, dont choke at the price but, Ha
Best

Lonsberry engineering, Irmler, Rand, stand by more on the horizon
best

The danner cassettes is where quite a lot of the unobtainable Erni relays sit, also the selector cassette from and to, the EAO switches on one of those can run you up to about $ $600 just for one Cassette They come up on eBay every now and than anywhere between $30-100 the relays at the back are gol...

It's a hard decision in my view it's not worth it. There are far to many connections as well as a bunch of relays at the back left hand side which can become a night mare even standard they can be troublesome they are getting quite old now The signal path goes through a lot of switched points which ...

Did you say a steel insert?
At this price it should be gold.
Joking
Glad you got it sorted out
Thanks for the update
Best

Gunner at rand has two of them or more Try them as well
Best

Argh got you,
Best

You have very good information from all the people here, but at most is best guess due to lack of information The modification has been done for some reason or another by someone who knew what he was doing, that makes it very very hard to decipher the modification from what you have described so far...

Dude? Beef ? What's that in English ?
Best

Estonia in Tartu?
https://www.facebook.com/andres.roots/posts/10154611189824918
Interesting post

So how many were made? Any clues?

Have you checked the bank of micro switches at the back of the lathe
May be a good idea.
They rearely play up but it could be another source of your issue
Best

Days off? Wishful thinking. Ha

Interesting article on this famous manufacturer of record presses, according to the article, as of 1974 they had 135 auto machines in the field and 900 manual/semiauto ones The interesting thing is that a lot of the autos have survived still pressing away they where made up and until 1980-2 numbers ...

nice one

http://www.musicnonstop.com.br/visitamos-vinil-brasil-nova-fabrica-de-discos-que-comeca-funcionar-no-segundo-semestre-em-sao-paulo/ Looks like Clenios find has found a home with a couple presses up and running I gather it is all in Portuguese no idea about the article. Apart from Google translation ...

Tried RAND they seem to make new machines. Also Alpha Phoenix of Sweden they say they are making a batch of new
AD 12??
Let us know how you go
Best

Thank You for that pdf it is Brilliant
Best

That's been an issue since time immemorial in so far as to what losses are present in the steps of making the final product a record All the comments are pretty much right may a I just point out that the plating process would be the least contributor to any losses as the growing of the metal parts a...

Well that may be the case about jacks place but I heard that they are looking for a rezoning at the premises they have If that's the case add another year or two unless the local shire council whatever it's very progressive wanting some new activity in the area Regardless from the word out there the...