DISCO LATHE

Welcome to Disco Lathe
Website of fora concentrating on various areas of vinyl record manufacture with an emphasis on lathes. To join the website, please sebd a request via email to Fonotec at discolathe@gmail.com

Pickup
Forum for discussing cartridges, styli, overhang, tracking force, stylus rake angle, vertical tracking angle, diameter loss, rumble, time constants, and anything else that gets picked up along the way...

L. J. Scully Manufacturing Corp.
THE LATHE, aka: LS-76, and the LJ-10 and LJ-12 tape machines

Scully Machine Company / Scully Recording Instruments Corporation
Scully lathes from 1919 until 1967, when the trade name was sold to Dictaphone, and the son and grandson of the founder, John Scully, established the L. J. Scully Manufacturing Corporation

Westrex
Western-Electric Westrex cutters, amps, and related topics.

Ortofon
Fonofilm Industri A/S, Ortofon cutters, amplifiers, and processors.

Neumann
Georg Neumann GmbH, Neumann lathes, cutters, amplifiers, tape machines, microphones, and processors.

Lyrec
Lyrec lathes, motors, and related equipment.

Victor Company of Japan
JVC Cutting Center, CA-90, CH-90, JVC quartz drive tt motor

Haeco
Holzer Audio Engineering, Haeco cutters, disk computers, preamps, amps, and processors.

Fairchild
Fairchild Recording Equipment, Fairchild lathes, cutters, amplifiers, and processors.

Vintage
vintage lathes (such as Presto, Wilcox-Gay, Universal, Western Electric, Rek-O-Kut, etc...), and vintage techniques (such as flown "wax" blank fabrication, acoustic recording, and the Paleophone).

Nickel Record Electroforming
Topics covering shipping, cleaning, and spray-coating lacquers, gold-sputtering wax masters, as well as electroforming fathers mothers & sons, centerpunching, edge trimming, and preforming vinyl pressing stampers...

Vinyl Record Pressing
All discussion related to pressing records, including: label circle-cutting and hole punching and incubation; boiler safety; light curtains; die centering; Vinylite; and related topics.

Classifieds
for sale and "looking for..." items




(DISCO LATHE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ITEM BEING SOLD HERE BY FORUM MEMBERS OTHER THAN FONOTEC .)

Exotics
Discussion of rare things not covered in other fora.