The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Hi
Very nice improvement of your cutterhead, did you use carbon fibre as pushrods?
Keep it up!

Aha! There you go. I'm assuming that the first MP3 is the source material and the other two your cuts. Very good; on first listen it seems that you have a proper EQ curve and it sounds just fine. When you say 'sapphire' stylus, can you be a bit more specific? One thing that's happened during the co...

Gus, did anything else change besides the wire gauge? The original cut sounded better-balanced to me; the two subsequent ones seemed to lack bass and the response was skewed toward the presence region; a bit shrill around 3kHz, I would think. Are you cutting into PVC on all of them? What stylus are...

Gus, did anything else change besides the wire gauge? The original cut sounded better-balanced to me; the two subsequent ones seemed to lack bass and the response was skewed toward the presence region; a bit shrill around 3kHz, I would think. Are you cutting into PVC on all of them? What stylus are...

Thank you for your thought Grooveguy! Here is a quick and dirty, recordings of my rewound cutterhead the first file is the original, the second is with 32AWG wire, and the third with 30AWG i think the second file have better fidelity, but the third sounds loudness please ignore the noise of my cuts....

Personally, I don't think we can class the upcoming Denon VL12 Prime in the same 'OEM' bracket as most of the other Hanpin-manufactured models. Naturally there are many questions that will need answering when it comes to using the Denon VL12 Prime to cut or emboss, but I'm looking forward to seeing...

Thank you Sifis, for your kind words. Finally I re wound my Fairchild for 8ohm my multi meter reads DC Resistance 5.2 ohm, also the magnet recharged,and i replaced the rubbers who are placed inside the tubes,cutterhead connected with 300 w power amp and it sounds very loud and crispy i'm waiting to ...

the hanpin oems dont work at all they have great starting torque and great acceleration but no real moving torque i modded my 1200 to have a 68k resistace at r209 that works better than where i had it at 100 but i still have a warble its on pronounced on music with sustained notes but its there my ...

Hi, If you really want to wind to 8 ohms, you would have to measure the AC impedance at a specified frequency (e.g. 1 Khz). I don't think that is necessary, since most modern solid state amps can drive a pretty wide range of loads. The best bet would be to use the finer gauge wire and fill the bobb...

Was $3,500 one week ago.

Hi,
I would like to rewound my FAIRCHILD 541 Mono Cutterhead from 500 Ohm to 8 Ohm i have available one reel of Enamelled Copper Magnet Wire of AWG 30 and one reel of AWG 32 what is better to use for rewound AWG30 or AWG32 and why?

Thanks in Advance!

Gus

I haven't seen any problems with a Technics SL1200, you just have to make sure stylus heat is correct to avoid the audio "wobble". What about your thoughts on a Numark TTX? Hi, I don't have any experience of cutting with diamond on pvc to Technics SL1200mk2 but if you are embossing will you need to...

My Review
The Rek-O-Kut works silent and torquey not so torquey as the Stanton st-150 is but it's torquey.For example if Stanton's torque is 4.5 kg/cm, Rek-O-Kut's torque is 4 kg/cm.
Embossing examples will be coming soon.

Idler & pulley installed

enjoy it ! my own review with video coming soon...
And if doesn't work well for my lathe then i will build a nice high end r-o-k for my living room.
As you can see my own R-O-K LP-743 is not the classic piece with the square line on the frame.

Congrats looks really nice !

Today i received the idler and pulley wrapped in kitchen paper
I'm going to test them and i will return for my review.

Hi, I did a quick search and found this manufacturer that makes small single phase in single phase out V/F drives https://www.wolfautomation.com/manufacturers/leeson/ac-drive-25hp-115v-2-4a-single-phase Looks like it costs about $250 Might be able to snag a used one on Ebay for less. Looks to be al...

I did some more research, and I see that 8ohms IS one of the stock ratings. I havn't been able to find the 1D manual that would tell me the resistor value, unfortunately. Would you be willing to send me your RIAA plugin? I am realizing that, with a series resistor, is a better way to go. If I can f...