For a heat lamp, if your lamp pictured is for heat, I would recommend a clamp on architect style lamp. I've found them much easier to position and they can be found cheap.
Yes, those are rigid and good for placement but your socket is hanging free so you don't have the additional adjustment like a dedicated lamp. I find the lamp easier to quickly move out of the way since it pivots freely at the clamp.
Hi Fred,
I like your latest Lathe-Build very much, and I see you use the tried and tested "Finger Stalling the Platter Test" for checking the Platter Torque :-
The Books and Academic "Stuff" will only carry you so far, and as you've shown here, the rest is always learned best by touching, feeling, and doing. I wholeheartedly approve of the "Heuristic" Methodology Employed for this Test, rather than relying on some of the Manufacturers Figures/Numbers. I like this approach to "Measurement Problem Solving" and as my Old Gaffer (Boss) once said to me, when he asked me what the Value was of a measurement I'd taken. I replied it was "Near Enough" to which he replied "I want it Spot-On" I then said "It is Spot-On" to which he further replied "Well That's Near Enough" I think the "Finger Stalling the Platter Test" to be similarly "Near Enough" to be "Spot-On" Te He!!
I suppose your next "Challenge" will be to get rid of any "Rumble" Transfer into the Recordings, from your Platter "Idler" Wheel Set-Up. Norman Field, the "Lathe Guy" owner of this MSS Lathe, made a New Idler Wheel for this "Ancient" Lathe, and the "Tyre" on the Idler is simply a Nitrile Rubber "O" Ring which, judging by the YT Video he's posted, seems to Transfer Motor Drive to the Platter Rim very Smoothly Indeed.
Regards Soulbear
MSS Idler Modification.jpg
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