This video shows:
Vinyl records pressing, 12" and 7"
Picture discs pressing
Galvanics (metal to metal / backsanding / centering) etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gcw-upZh3w
Next video will be about cutting and silvering
Hi to all
Video: Phono Press, Milan, Italy
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Phil from Phono Press, Milan, Italy
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Hey Phil, nice video. Can we see both you and Mossy in the next one?
If you die-cut your picture disc PVC film to a round shape with a diameter of 11 3/4" or so, you can recycle the flash and increase the life of the trimmer's blade.
That girl making the picture discs might need re-training. Are you still looking for a new press operator?
Very nice boiler. What are the specs on that shiny silver beast?
Might visit again in July/August if you are around.
If you die-cut your picture disc PVC film to a round shape with a diameter of 11 3/4" or so, you can recycle the flash and increase the life of the trimmer's blade.
That girl making the picture discs might need re-training. Are you still looking for a new press operator?
Very nice boiler. What are the specs on that shiny silver beast?
Might visit again in July/August if you are around.
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@ Andy: Mossy is around 60 Kg lighter than Alberto (here called "VO5")
@ Mike: you are always welcome to visit us. In August we might be closed, say 2 weeks. The boiler is a pretty standard 1000 Kg/h accumulating boiler from the late 80's with a modern modulating burner which worths almost 10 times the boiler. You can run 1 or 7 presses, the steam pressure is kept always stable, allow a variation of a 10-12%.
When you run 2 automatic presses and nothing else, and only in this case, the pressure variation is higher. No one here so far understood why, at the very end I came to an answer. The boiler and the big main steam pipes have a rather high accumulation capacity. If you run only one auto press, the boiler reachs its max pressure and the burner stops, and it takes almost one minute for it to "wash" this means to get rid of air etc. and restart burning safely. But in the meantime, the steam required by just one press is already accumulated into the system so when the burner starts again you still have a little reservoir and the rest of the steam is already coming into the system. So the pressure variation is not so significant. With two presses, it is not like this because they suck a little bit more than the available reservoir and the pressure starts to decrease faster, and this gap will be corrected within one minute or so.
That is anyway not a problem, because we usually run with 4-5 machines alltogether, including the manual presses. This is the best condition because the max pressure is never reached, so the modulating wheel of the burner is continuously rotating and setting the best height of the flame in order to keep the pressure as stable as possible.
As for Mossy, if you look for him he's in the workshop 9 times out of 10. That is his and Arturo's reign. Pins, bushes, spareparts, air cylinders, seals, gearboxes, bearings, controllers, drawings etc.
If you look carefully, you will notice that every press has an auto sleeving machine; I have not filmed them as well as many other stuff, e.g. the packing dept. where you can see the shrink wrapping machine, the little inline granulators, the big mill, etc.
Next video I want to take is about the cutting room, the silvering, preplating and all the little "steps" inbetween, sensitizing etc. - that is Luciano's "black art"
@ Mike: you are always welcome to visit us. In August we might be closed, say 2 weeks. The boiler is a pretty standard 1000 Kg/h accumulating boiler from the late 80's with a modern modulating burner which worths almost 10 times the boiler. You can run 1 or 7 presses, the steam pressure is kept always stable, allow a variation of a 10-12%.
When you run 2 automatic presses and nothing else, and only in this case, the pressure variation is higher. No one here so far understood why, at the very end I came to an answer. The boiler and the big main steam pipes have a rather high accumulation capacity. If you run only one auto press, the boiler reachs its max pressure and the burner stops, and it takes almost one minute for it to "wash" this means to get rid of air etc. and restart burning safely. But in the meantime, the steam required by just one press is already accumulated into the system so when the burner starts again you still have a little reservoir and the rest of the steam is already coming into the system. So the pressure variation is not so significant. With two presses, it is not like this because they suck a little bit more than the available reservoir and the pressure starts to decrease faster, and this gap will be corrected within one minute or so.
That is anyway not a problem, because we usually run with 4-5 machines alltogether, including the manual presses. This is the best condition because the max pressure is never reached, so the modulating wheel of the burner is continuously rotating and setting the best height of the flame in order to keep the pressure as stable as possible.
As for Mossy, if you look for him he's in the workshop 9 times out of 10. That is his and Arturo's reign. Pins, bushes, spareparts, air cylinders, seals, gearboxes, bearings, controllers, drawings etc.
If you look carefully, you will notice that every press has an auto sleeving machine; I have not filmed them as well as many other stuff, e.g. the packing dept. where you can see the shrink wrapping machine, the little inline granulators, the big mill, etc.
Next video I want to take is about the cutting room, the silvering, preplating and all the little "steps" inbetween, sensitizing etc. - that is Luciano's "black art"
Phil from Phono Press, Milan, Italy
http://www.phonopress.it
http://www.phonopress.it