Quote Originally Posted by fusionkid View Post
Well a VMS70 is a precision engineered unit,
I know, I've spent many a happy hour in the cutting rooms at Whitfield Street (CBS Studios in those days)

I wasn't suggesting you copy a Neumann , just pinch the ideas e.g. the size and pitch of the lead screw & the slide-way design etc. etc.


What type of cutter head are you planning to use? (and who on earth makes them these days???)

It would be cheaper to spend £10 000 on a used unit
Is that what they fetch (I'd heard that Whitfield Street's ones were dumped in a skip!)

Quote Originally Posted by i2i
I have a question, what type of bearing are you going to use for the turntable. It will need to be supported over the whole surface and have extremely low noise levels,
Noise and vibration are certainly a problem, but the cutting forces are not large. I've heard of successful DIY lathes made from the older Technics DD decks, so I'm sure fusionkid will be able to make something work :) He's talking about a machine for DJs (not DMM), so surface noise will be no worse than the crap recorded :naughty:

BTW did you know the earliest lathes (for 78s) were powered by a string and a falling weight ?

Bill