The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Just got my motor grommets in the mail and ordered up a stabilizer. Your K8 is super clean!! Good see someone cutting some DnB. I will be using mine to cut mostly Deep Dubstep and Left field, maybe the occasional juke/footwork for some local friends. Should hopefully have a heat lamp sorted out by t...

Thanks for the info! Mine are definitely a little worn so I got those on order. I got the amp hooked up to the head and got an ebay steel stylus installed, I took the amp up until I got signal through just before 0.5 amp fuse pops. Running a Kenwood KA-3500 (40w @ 8ohms per channel) So with this dia...

Made some progress this weekend, took it apart and gave it a good cleaning. Check the wiring and tubes and surprisingly it was quite clean. Disconnected the head and figured i'd see if it would power up. Sure enough, both the platter drive and on board system powered up! Should hopefully be getting ...

Hey guys, Could quite locate a good section of the forum to drop this in but figured I would share for those who want to have it on hand. The below link is the manual for the Presto 8-K, includes parts list and circuit diagram: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PRAuppeSX2-bNXZb6cKuAHuVdPoE8DOM Cheers

I have some good fitting grommets I found as well as some other tidbits I can share from my experiences working with my K-8. Need to dig and put it all together though. =) That would be amazing and a ton of help! I will try to snag some pictures of mine this weekend to give you an idea of the quali...

I have some good fitting grommets I found as well as some other tidbits I can share from my experiences working with my K-8. Need to dig and put it all together though. =) That would be amazing and a ton of help! I will try to snag some pictures of mine this weekend to give you an idea of the quali...

Hi, I don't have a recommendation on an amp. Any decent Hi-Fi amp should work fine. You don't need much power to drive the head. Might want to put a 1/4 amp and fast blow in there to protect the head. You can increase the value to 1/2 amp once you get some confidence in setting drive levels. Probab...

Thank you for the info Mark, I had not even considered the bypassing of some of the components, thanks for that recommendation. Is there a solid state amp that you recommend by chance? Also when I do get this up and going, whats the likely hood of the motor being usable. If not usable, is a replacem...

Hi all, I am new to the record cutting game but not so new to electronics and audio, I recently picked up a Presto K-8 which I am looking to get into working order but had a few questions. I have the schematics for the unit but was wondering if it should be completely overhauled component-wise or sh...