bblackwood wrote on Wed, 12 January 2011 18:21 |
Hey Steve, can you start a new thread about your lathe and give us an update?
I'm curious to see this thing come to life...
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Will do. Right now no progress to report just yet as at this point I'm just finishing the tail end of a slight back log of orders from the start of this year and have a gig this Sunday (playing cello with a 20 piece rock orchestra doing a set of David Bowie classics at LPR in the Village) which I've had some rehearsals take up some time as well - and also waiting for a couple checks to clear before purchasing the first round of needed gear (tone arm, vacuum, variac) - which should all happen next week. In the meantime I also need to find a day to give the feedscrew and bearings a good cleaning and oiling.
Alan Graves, a Presto lathe enthusiast who used to restore lathes (an occupation which he is now retired from) and who runs the Presto History website at
http://www.televar.com/grshome/Presto.htm - contacted me as he was the one who actually fixed this lathe up some 15 years ago - and he very generously forwarded me both the operating manual for this along with the original platter to vacuum tube connector.
Still considering options for what stereo head and cutter amps to ultimately get for this - but am going to be making some more inquiries for some options starting next week as well.
Best regards,
Steve Berson