The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

is this dripped onto the laquer and worked in? or do you submerge the whole disc?

gold wrote:

Radardoug wrote: Then NOOOOO!!!! You do not earth anything on the primary!!!

I was thinking of US domestic 220vac which is two 120VAC 180º out of phase with Ground in the middle. Free balanced power.

i'm on UK power

Thanks for al the suggestions guys!

I'm still a bit unsure though - seems like there might be differnet standards for these things... although my wiring is very similar to Opcodes. however I'm on UK power so 220V at 50hz

bagh! confused already! first I wired the transformer in according to the Velleman Kit's instructions.... I did think it was kinda weird how they had it but i followed the colour codes they suggested. https://i.imgur.com/ubF3OuI.jpg but then I looked closely at opcode's pics in the earlier post, and...

hmmmm looking closely at opcodes pics i think i can figure it out..... I'll try going off that but if anyone has an actual method I could follw that would put my noobie mind at ease

thanks flozki for anyone looking for these, you might get lucky like I did and find these connectors on standard computer fans, which are often found lurking in drawers and corners of IT departments :) I've built my Velleman PSU kit.... mostly. Now Ineed to figure how to connect it to the mains and ...

I'm building a power supply for a CAruso.... do es anyone know what the part is for the little 2-pin connectors for Power onto the Caruso PCB's? cheers

i'm tihnking the same - if it can cut through plastic, can't it cut through ink/different textures?

dream job - where do I train up to get experience?

that's awesome

that head looks cool would love to hear some cuts!

sick

are they noisy?

the motor i replaced my NYC-34 Bodine with is quite noisy, mostly cos it has a fan.... but definately noisier than the old Bodines. just wondering if theres another option. Specs wise mine is as close to the NYC-34 as I could find and pretty much like for like - on paper.

out of interest , mike, what motors did you use to upgrade?

very excellent!

my friend Jesse Dean makes really nice tone arms and other turntable-realted mods and bits. he might be a useful guy to talk to but it kinda looks like you got everything sewn up!

very awesome!

I just lucked out and got put in contact with a guy who owns the Lathe but couldnt do anything with it for various reason, so he let me take it and work on it. It's still "his" but i'm operating it and fixing it up. the condition seems ok, but i dunno on what scale i'm working to :) last time it was...

somehow ended up on this thread... some really interesting posts which i can relate to from some of you more experienced heads, so it feels like i'm treading down the right path.... I'm Embossing wuth PIPTK sapphire stylii on a Presto 5C, on to Polycarb blanks. I get a fair amount of noise and I'm t...

this is making me think i should probably open my gearbox and fully clean/service it.....

man those Bodine Motors are nice and quiet compared to the one I'm using, too bad they run at the wrong speed here in the UK.

Did you have to dissassemble the gear box at all to service it?