The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Made some great progress over the last couple weeks. Here's a video of the results: https://youtu.be/H155l7Vjrp4

Thanks to tragwag, Mart and dubcutter89 for trying out the first batch of samples, looking forward to you experience with them!

I made a few test runs of 7'' inches on the smaller machine and will ship out some samples next week

OK! So now the joke about Zwolle would be appropriate :) Any chance of a picture of an injection moulding machine doing blanks or records? mart Hahaha nice one I'll provide a few pictures when starting the topic! Anything in particular you'd like to see? Obviously won't take pictures of everything ...

Did you ever though about getting a stampers and make records instead of blanks? Best, Bob In the making 😁 It’s turning out harder than I initially thought. Very promising results so far but pressed quality injection moulded records still need some time to develop. This discussion deserves a topic ...

Thanks for the info!

What size of blank do you use most? I'm thinking of making a few 7 or 10 inch blanks on another machine.
ETA on the blanks is about 6 weeks. If you send me your address I'll ship the to you once they're ready!


Jurriaan

Hey Trolls, So a few weeks ago I got my hands on an injection moulding machine that came with an old laserdisc matrix(!) and I've been thinking about making a few test runs of record blanks. What are your criteria for a good record blank? The most common materials I see used is PVC, after that proba...