The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Also i disassemble the rest of mechanical parts for clean and re lube.

Thank you TheCrates!
So now it's time to give a good clean to the bearing with denatured alcohol,also the ball bearing was replaced with a new one Silicon Nitride Ball super precision diamond polished Grade 5 from World Champions ACER Racing

Excuse me for the Greeks guys Γεια σου Sifi, ακριβώς για αυτό τον λόγο θα χρειαστείς ένα ενισχυτή όχι στα 18w αλλά πολύ μεγαλύτερο γύρω στα 150w για να έχεις ένα σωστό ηχητικό αποτέλεσμα(hi-fidelity) σε τόσο χαμηλά watt δεν θα περάσουν ούτε οι υψηλές συχνότητες ούτε η ένταση θα είναι ίδια με ένα δίσ...

http://www.myshank.com/en/15-westrex-fairchild-presto

http://www.diamond-cutting-stylus.com/stylus-shop/

After complete rebuild i add three new rubber grommets.

First of all it's very important to rebuilt the motor.
you can find information at this post http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/inside-look-of-the-death-cube.653231/

Good torque with no wow for cutting and embossing but you need to modify the platter i'm working in progress to modify the platter http://lathetrolls.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6589&p=44598&hilit=Stanton+St+150#p44598 http://lathetrolls.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5012&p=30253&hilit=stanton+st+150#p30253 h...

Nice Keep it up!
do you cut with diamond on pvc or sapphire on lacquer?

I'm sorry to say this but your cutterhead is a nice D.I.Y try but not for 2000$
maybe for 20$ - 50$ is ok.
Always i trust my ears first , without analyzers ,etc. the sound of your cutterhead is very distorted with many resonances

Don't buy it...

So after 60 years of use it's time for restoration.

The postman knocked on the door, outside of my home was a medium size box with a vintage REK-O-KUT LP 743 transcription turntable. http://www.vinylengine.com/library/rek-o-kut/lp-743.shtml DSC_0675.JPG DSC_0677.JPG I hate the solution of car inverter 12volt to 110v @60hz actually 63hz because of the...

After hundreds tests on polycarb with sapphire stylus I've noticed some songs with many high frequencies as the example of the attachment file, the sound goes up and down. :( I think this called flutter effect if i'm wrong please correct me. original file.mp3 Fairchild-Stanton ST-150.mp3 The reason ...

My first attempt was the Stanton SP-150 turntable with VERY powerful motor 4.5kg/cm torque very stable speed and no audible wow effect to test recordings at different speeds. Here is a sample file embossed on polycarbonate @ 33.3 RPM with sapphire stylus and Fairchild cutterhead at 500 ohm . Origina...

The lathe in action!

[YouTube2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbHBxjFxBbo /YouTube2]

Hello, what is offered is the mechanical part, known as the "Hayes Portable" and a Blumlein mono cutterhead fitted to that in the 1930s. The Hayes Portable in its most common form (in several museums world-wide) was developed in the early 1920s to drive the recording wax below an acoustic cutterhea...

jesusfwrl wrote: He seems to run a company called "Pleiades". No official website, or blog, and the company is not known in Greece.

Here is:
http://euroelectron.blogspot.gr/

According to local collective wisdom among fellow trolls, this particular machine has never been seen by anyone in Greece. But, there are also private collectors, that we would not necessarily know about. This means that it is very likely that this machine has nothing to do with Columbia or EMI in ...

The reason I suspect that Gus did not get a reply is that he is in Greece and that is one of the countries listed as not having the item shipped to even though it is in Greece, if I was the seller I would not answer that either. The lathe located in Athens and the seller does not want to sold it to...

Hi Gus, The Plot Thickens, as you've pointed this out, that the Seller does not Ship to Greece, but immediately beneath that in the Ebay Listing, it states the item is Located in Greece!! What gives??? A most curious Sale (Or NOT!!) Caveat Emptor. Regards :wink: :P :D Soulbear I send to seller a pr...