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- Thu Apr 26, 2018 10:33 pm
- Forum: The Reference Archive
- Topic: BBC Recording Training Manual (1950)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7736
Re: BBC Recording Training Manual (1950)
This is a great resource, thank you for posting!
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 10:12 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: 5/16” paper hole punch
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1405
Re: 5/16” paper hole punch
This is the one I have, and it seems to work pretty well: https://www.amazon.ca/McGill-Punchline-Chrome-Purple-MCG53700C/dp/B001E69SJS
- Tue May 23, 2017 5:21 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7304
Re: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
It's starting in the next ten minutes or so, 2:30 PM Pacific.
- Tue May 23, 2017 1:28 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7304
Re: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
Just a heads-up that this episode will be airing on the Mr Rogers Marathon Twitch channel later this afternoon. They just started episode 1240 now (10:20 AM Pacific) and it's episode 1248. I've been waiting for this for decades. :D Now to figure out how to record a Twitch channel. https://www.twitch...
- Sat Apr 22, 2017 2:00 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7304
Re: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
As far as Rek-O-Kut goes, the M12 and M5 were non-spiraling, they didn't have the gears and the overrunning clutch for that. But the M12S and M5S did, thus the "S" in the model name. And you can see the hand crank on the right hand side of Mr. Rogers' machine. And yeah, hindsight is 20/20 with the h...
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 11:53 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7304
Re: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
I've seen pictures where someone managed to mount a Neumann SX68 on a Presto 6N. But for the most part there just isn't the real estate in there on "suitcase" Presto or Rek-O-Kut lathes either lateral, vertical or front-to-back to fit a stereo head. Even a mono Fairchild 541A has problems with the d...
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 5:17 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7304
Re: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
Ahh, they have screenshots. So I can answer your original question: that's a Rek-O-Kut M12S overhead with an Audax mono head, presumably part of a TR43H system.
- Wed Apr 19, 2017 2:29 am
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7304
Re: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
Oh my god... I've never been able to find this episode or any evidence that it existed, since watching it. :shock: It was the first time I ever saw a lathe, and at a single-digit age watching my grandma's television I was like "I WANT TO DO THAT." If anyone can find the episode online I'd be incredi...
- Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:45 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Rek-O-Kut lead screws
- Replies: 3
- Views: 931
Re: Rek-O-Kut lead screws
The 12" Rek-O-Kuts came equipped from the factory with 108 lpi outside-in leadscrews; the 16" version was 120 lpi. Other leadscrews for the 12" were 120, 144, 216, 240 and 264 lpi in either direction; for the 16" there were 105, 135, 210, 240 and 270 lpi. There may also have been a 96 lpi screw for ...
- Mon Mar 20, 2017 3:46 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Best way to clean laquer and lathe?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 752
Re: Best way to clean laquer and lathe?
For cleaning off blanks, I know a lot of people use compressed nitrogen. The "compressed air" in a can you buy at the computer store is no good, the propellants in the can leave a thin residue behind.
- Sat Mar 18, 2017 1:33 pm
- Forum: Plating and Pressing
- Topic: Canada Boy Vinyl in Calgary AB closes abruptly
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2167
- Sat Mar 11, 2017 2:17 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: One intermittent channel during mono embossing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1223
Re: One intermittent channel during mono embossing
I'd look closer at your playback system first, to be honest. The only stereo signal I've ever managed to accidentally cut with a mono system was rotational movements when cutting high level subsonic test tones (20 to 30 hz) with a Fairchild 541A that wasn't mounted completely level. Midrange stereo ...
- Sat Feb 25, 2017 3:19 pm
- Forum: The Reference Archive
- Topic: Great photo of Doug Sax/Mastering Lab Scully lathe
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3428
Re: Great photo of Doug Sax/Mastering Lab Scully lathe
If it's in storage, I wonder who owns it now?
Also EJ Emmons - I enjoyed watching the videos of your Scully lathe in action. I'd love to see more posted, especially the variable pitch working on very dynamic music.
Also EJ Emmons - I enjoyed watching the videos of your Scully lathe in action. I'd love to see more posted, especially the variable pitch working on very dynamic music.
- Sun Jan 08, 2017 2:40 am
- Forum: Experimenters' & Innovators' forum
- Topic: Is this scenario possible?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1061
Re: Is this scenario possible?
The short answer is that it can be done but there are serious trade-offs in quality. The amount of time that will fit on one side of a record depends on how loud the bass is throughout the side, which affects how closely the grooves can be packed together. Professional lathes (Scully, Neumann, Lyrec...
- Tue Jan 03, 2017 11:33 pm
- Forum: Plating and Pressing
- Topic: Canada Boy Vinyl in Calgary AB closes abruptly
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2167
Canada Boy Vinyl in Calgary AB closes abruptly
http://exclaim.ca/music/article/calgarys_canada_boy_vinyl_ceases_operations There was an announcement in mid-December on their Facebook page that they were closing temporarily "due to unforseen circumstances". Shortly afterwards their FB page was deleted. Now it appears they're not going to be reope...
- Sat Jan 23, 2016 3:25 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Anyone have Feedscrews Anyone?? Rek- O-Kut
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1011
Re: Anyone have Feedscrews Anyone?? Rek- O-Kut
Pretty sure the -S suffix is for "spiralling", meaning it has the pressed brass gear on the outside end and the clockspring overrunning clutch near the inside end. The M12 and M5 (if the latter exists) without the S don't have these. Also the M12/M12S overheads only fit 13 1/4" blanks, so they're sh...
- Sat Jan 23, 2016 1:21 am
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: why no mention of dead moon on here?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1328
Re: why no mention of dead moon on here?
Closeup of my copy of Tombstone T-84 "Paranoia" by Pierced Arrows.
- Thu Jan 21, 2016 8:36 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Presto 8dg vari-pitch schematics.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1482
Re: Presto 8dg vari-pitch schematics.
I'm not sure how much this would help, but here's an exploded view. The knob moves the cylinder with the worm gear left and right to move the idler on the far left inwards and outwards on the rotating disc coupled to the turntable shaft.
- Sun Dec 20, 2015 1:11 am
- Forum: Vinyl Mastering, Lacquer cutting, Pro's and others
- Topic: Scully lathe - Bringing to life / help!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1146
Re: Scully lathe - Bringing to life / help!
I haven't set up a Scully myself, but from the pictures I have, I think it's a totally different mount - there should be more than enough room for the suction tube to come up between the head and the mount, and I don't see it or see how that would fit on your setup.
- Thu Dec 10, 2015 3:41 am
- Forum: Experimenters' & Innovators' forum
- Topic: Lathe DIY - Lead Screw - Stepper motor
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1665
Re: Lathe DIY - Lead Screw - Stepper motor
Some folks here have reported success using stepper motors, but others (myself included) are concerned that the steps could show up as unwanted noise in the cut - 4 Hz is about the bottom end of cartridge and tonearm resonances, and bumping it up by a factor of 10 for lead-ins and banding is 40 Hz w...