Supersom Mono Cutterhead

[Babooino]

didn't buy a motor yet. But that should be no problem.
Good news is that head seems to be working. I cleaned it inside and plugged it to a 5w tube amp. It is vibrating and i can hear sound...
More pictures of the restoration....

[powerstrip]

Hi

I am currently restoring a fairchild 523 as well. I just bought it after a flight to san fran, (thanks andy). I consider it a very capable lathe.

I am in just about the same boat as you, but I have the platter/table/original head...I am wondering about the drive system as well, if you are supposed to drive both shafts with a pulley from the same motor? Your motor is much similar to mine but the Fairchild official motor looks very nice.

Maybe we will both walk out of this with a nice functional unit! I will get some pics up very soon

[Babooino]

Great! Congrats!
Please post pics.
As my TT motor is in excelent condition, i decided to use a new AC motor with that gearbox wich was originally made for industrial sewing machines and has a mechanical speed regulator. It is also very silent. I picked it because it has the same specs as the fairchild original (4 poles 1750rpm).

Can't wait to get this thing cutting!

[Babooino]

Some more progress...


Ultrasonic bath


Lube


Painting..


Lots of work ahead!

[recordboy]

So nice to see something brought back from near dead and forgotten. Really nice progress.

[Babooino]

Slow but steady progress... sorry bout the crappy picture

[studiorp]

Wow Anderson, compliments for your "new" machine.
Beautiful design. A question, your cutting head is the Supersom, or other ? Then, is stereo your system ? I can see in your photo two meters...
And about the turntable system ?

[Stevie342000]

Wow Anderson, compliments for your "new" machine.
Beautiful design. A question, your cutting head is the Supersom, or other ? Then, is stereo your system ? I can see in your photo two meters...
And about the turntable system ?

I would figure that it is mono, probably 541 Fairchild cutter (hard to tell) from the pictures and that it has two meters one to monitor signal (cutting level - probably VU Meter) and the other meter is for the current or volts running through the heating coil for the stylus.

[Babooino]

Thanks Rafaello!

I still have that Supersom and it is working and rewound to 8ohms. Also i bought a Presto 1D and have in my hands a Ortofon DSS601 from a friend, if it works well i will keep it.

The TT is a Supersom Transcription Turntable with a syncronous motor. very stable and very little rumble, almost not noticeable. I restored it to almost new condition. The feed motor is a 12v car wiper motor with a PWM driver. Nice and cheap

I have been learning a lot restoring this thing! Now i hope i will soon be able to cut music without any hassle...

cheers

[mossboss]

Well Done
Note: First post on this project was mid August 13, it is now mid July 15
Close enough to two years, what an effort !
Hopefully the results are good
Keep at it
Best

[Babooino]

thanks chris! hopefully this fairchild will be cutting lacquers soon! too much work ahead though...

[Babooino]

Updating! Got two grampians, a D and a C.