The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

I found this on Kid Koala's web site. I guess he is cutting now. Cool.
http://nufonia.com/projects/cutting-records-for-real/

Thank you. I will incorporate the 2 ohm resister into the box I will make.

All I am using right now is a 1970's Lafayette stereo to power the head. I wanted to come up with a way to get a rough idea of the volume. When I turn the pot the cut is not very loud, but at a certain point it really gets the head moving. If I go up a little higher is does distort. I don't really w...

I set up the head today and did some test cuts. They were very loud! I was fooling with the volume on the amp but I really don't know what I am putting into the head. Can anyone tell me how I can put in a VU meter? You just put it in parallel right? Before I could not see any movement in the grooves...

I finished rewinding my 1-d head as an 8 ohm head. Thank you Markrob for the instructions. I haven't actually tried cutting a record with it but I hitched it up to a speaker output on my stereo and it was very loud. I will try cutting one of the laquers I bought from dour Saturday. I did not make ne...

What if someone who had the head bought the discs and resold them on ebay or something? Or would that void the connection with the company?

Cool. Thank you for the explaination. That was something I was always confused about.

You could probably use the same press to make a record trimmer.

Yeah. Plus you might run the risk of warping the screw.

I wonder if you could make a mother from a regular record with that silicon stuff that dentists use to make molds of things. It would be good enough to pick up the grooves but also flexible to remove the chocolate record easily.

So the key to stereo is actually a slight up an down motion in addition to side to side? A little confusing but I think it will start to sink in. Oh. so that is why the two speakers are at an angle. They pull each other side to side when the information is the same and then up and down a bit when it...

Normally you would case harden it, right?. That is not the easiest thing to do.

No I don't have a site. But I did try cutting polyurethane. I built up a coating on a sheet of glass and the peeled it off. It was not quite stable enough to cut on. I thought I could creat a sort of flexi disc.

I was saying somewhere on this site about using a solution of ammonia to help soften old laquers. Although it seems to go away if you don't cut soon after the soaking. Last summer when I started fooling around with cutting I would put them out on the hot black top for a few minutes. I have not yet t...

What exactly is going on with the speakers. I can't really tell what you did there. Also is that piece of wood that both speakers are connected to connected to the middle shaft or does it just float? What about making some of the parts out of lead? (relating to resonance?) I don't know much about th...

The pics did not come up. Can you email them to me? I can pm you with my email address.

Interesting

Dour--is that $45 each or for all 15? Plus How old are they? I thought they only go up to 14" masters.

No but still fun.
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motorino wrote:

compare one vinylrecorder cutterhead with a sc99 vinylium is like comparing a Trabant with a Porsche

sc99 its a profesional cutterhead

and i have one Trabant!!

I am just glad someone knows what a Trabant is.