1. STYLI: Peter actually uses sharpened Victrola needles to cut, rather than the Transco styli. He takes two dremel tools and has the needle in one, and a sharpener in the other and sharpens the points to 45 degrees. He says that he gets about 4 LPs out of a needle nefore it has to be resharpened.
2. WAX: Peter uses clear Lexan to cut on. He waxes them up with turtle wax and then polishes them right before he starts cutting them.
3. HEAT: He doesn't heat the stylus, instead he heats the Lexan with heatlamps as he is cutting it.
4. LABELS: He actually prints the labels onto the Permanent sticker paper and then cuts them out and puts a bunch onto a jig or something and grinds them down into a circle.
5. PICTURE DISCS: He prints out the image onto two sheets of regular paper, then affixes them to the back of two sheets of lexan using spray adhesive, and then glues the two sides together (so that pic discs are twice as thick as regular records).
6. WEIGHT: he uses .150kg weight on cutting head for the victrola needles.
Hopefully that will be of use to someone.
