After reading this forum for several years and always dreaming of building my own lathe, now it's the time. After i got the possibility to buy a caruso,I thought it might be the right time now. I cutted a while with a Rek-O-Kut/Audax mono lathe. But we upgraded our soundsystem to stereo, so it's time for stereo cutting!
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First got infected with the lathe virus, after visiting ameise and got some dubplates cut.
So the last two years i bought a lot of cheap stuff on ebay i could need for this project.
So for now I have:
- Technics SP10 with Grace 747 tonearm
- phono pre
- rose+krieger linear unit with 1mm pitch
- maxon ec motor with epos2 drive
- case for control unit
- (hopefully soon) Caruso + Preamp
- Amp
- RTW peakmeter
The plan is to start small and try to run it with as less options as possible. I just want to already think about future options, without building them right from the beginning.
Done already:
- made CAD drawings for everything
- build control unit with basic control options for driving the maxon motor ( the control unit has already much more options/buttons for controlling things like heating, vacuum, lights, temperature..., but i want so start small)
- set up code for controlling the maxon motor via arduino due (DAC output to 5v analog input of eops2)
Doing atm:
- building plywood plinth for technics
- building/mounting the arm on the linear unit
- start building the suspension box
- trying to learn to code, as i have only very basic javascript knowledge
There are still to many to-dos to list them all here
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If everything is working how i wanted it to, i will share the CAD drawings, code and detailed info on what i used with everyone who is interested. I really got most of my info from this forum and also want to contribute to it by sharing. Also happy to link up in person, if there's anybody near munich.
The goal i want to archive is to cut decent dubplates for our soundsystem.
I document this project with analog photography, so the pictures won't always be up to date. Perhaps i will set up a blog or design a book documenting this project.
Some first impressions:
The CAD drawings are already a bit older, but will update them soon.
Best,
Jo