Sillitoe Lathes

[Sillitoe]

Hi Dimi, sorry I missed your post.
Yes the plan is for the system to be switchable between manual and fully automatic...
Still refining stuff but it's coming along nicely.

I'm having lots of fun and learning along the way.

Cheers!

[dimi751]

Hi Sillitoe

Thanks a lot for the info ! It looks really hard what your doing can we swap brains !

Keep up the good work !

[mossboss]

Sillitoe are you an aussie?
Curious
Cheers

[Sillitoe]

Hi Mossboss,
Yep I'm over here in Perth mate!
Cheers

[dimi751]

cool good to know

[mossboss]

Well I'll be buggered. Ha
If you ever in Melbourne call in at Zenith you be welcomed.
Cheers

[Sillitoe]

Awesome, cheers Mossboss, you're a legend!

Cutting Amp.jpg

Here is a pic of the insides of my cutting amps.

I have four Caruso boards in there, two for the head and another two setup as phono preamps.
http://vinylike.de/index.php/news/

The dual mono power amps are bridged 8PAKAMP boards from JLM Audio.
http://www.jlmaudio.com/shop/

The power supplies are in another case.

I will be adding switchable VU and peak metering to the top of the enclosure soon.

A huge thanks to Flo and Joe Malone for all of their help.
Cheers
James

[dimi751]

That looks so professional Sillitoe great job really nice work.
When will your products be available for the public to purchase ?

[Sillitoe]

Thank you Dimi.
Things are progressing well, I don't have a date set yet. I will let you know.

Cheers
James

[MEGAMIKE]

too late mossy..ive kidnapped him..
hes in my basement right now all shackled up..
dont worry hes not harmed iam keeping him warm and well fed with lashings of hot tripe soup..

[dimi751]

Make sure Sillitoe is alive to complete his lathe systems mega mike ! Be gentle to him.

[MEGAMIKE]

my ransom demands are:

1.a complete copy of lathe trolls up to date and as hard colour copys.

2.a years supply of juciy fruits(i love my juciy fruits)

3.the complete discograpy of James Last in DMM( i was so upset to here the news)

4.matching vms poland oven mitts(with that sexy print of her in the bath tub..

5. laser prints of vms poland in the bath tub,ill take them to the bath room.

5.1.just send her to me.

6.jaycar theromin kit with midi (mine just died)


demands made by 12pm local time or iam shipping him of to russia for more interagation..(like Theriomin..or however u spell it)

[Sillitoe]

Haha.
I hate to say it, but I think you have the wrong guy.

[dimi751]

I'm in stitches lol

Look I can honour your demands up to number 6 but demand
number 7 is going to be Tricky.

In the meantime do not harm Sillitoe ok.

Todd this is urgent request can your lease assist megamike.lol

[opcode66]

Will Hulk Underoos do? I have super 8 film of me in those many, many years ago... in a galaxy far, far away. Where Harry Potter used to hang out with Aliester Crowely and they dabbled in The Force to make Warp Drives with the Klingon and Keebler Elves. Magick!

By the way, I love the build.

[Sillitoe]

Thank you Todd!
You're a good sport mate.
Cheers

[dimi751]

He's a good sport alright ! Good on you Todd !

Too bad megaman only batman undies from Todd looks like Sillitoe is in the poo Lol

Hey James with your lathes is there an option
For automatic and manual or are both functions built in ? Also will you be selling these with caruso pre amp
And cutter head or does the buyer have to buy there own Riaa unit/cutter head/amp ??

[Sillitoe]

Hi Dimi, thanks for the questions.
Both manual and automatic functions are built into the one lathe, easily switchable.
I won't go into detail just yet. I'll save that for a video demonstration. There will also be detailed instructions.

As for heads, it seems to me that the Caruso is the best option for a new head.
The arm is strong enough to support more than 10 Westrex heads, so really anything could be possible with the right suspension setup haha.

It's still early days... I may take a little while, but I will not sell anything that doesn't work as advertised.

Cheers

[analoghifi]

James this is great man! I love the work you have put in so far!
I like how your coming along with the cutterhead elevation system!
The Preamp looks very nice too! WOW thanks for sharing these updates, im anxious to see what comes next!

Kev

[dimi751]

Thanks James looking forward to seeing the finished product...agree James sounds like a nice bloke man !