The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Just thought of an idea:anyone thought of converting a home trash compactor into a record press? I'm aware of of how the stampers & halves of a record press are heated & cooled. I believe someone mentioned an electrically heated DIY record press of theirs. But the subject calls for making a DIY reco...

I thought of something:my mother used to have one of those glucose meters with the lancet pen & the lancets that were used with the mentioned pen. I'm wondering if you can use those type of unused sterile lancets as an experimental kind of stylus in cutting a blank record. There should be some way t...

I just found something online about a hot blade guillotine that would be ideal for cutting extruded blank wax cylinders to length.

I recently thought of an easier & better way of making blank wax cylinders instead of the traditional means of pour molding them by using a pipe extruder meant for making rigid PVC or other plastic pipe,search for pipe extruder or PVC pipe extruder. Also, figure out how to use,modify or make a guill...

Has anyone used or familiar with the Borg-Warner System 80 teaching machine that used specially cut 12 inch records? I have & it uses the 12 inch records mentioned with the matching film slides. The records use labels with a circle on one side & a triangle printed on the other side that match the co...

I have some 12 inch laserdiscs (video discs) that have the 45 rpm style center hole, but the center hole is a bit smaller,probably 1 3/8 inch. The question is has anyone,using their own spindle adapter,tried cutting a 12 inch laserdisc? One person had a video somewhere online in which he did somethi...