For Sale or Trade: Record disc cutting outfit.  I have a recorder for
cutting discs up to twelve inches in diameter.  I have two overhead
cutting lathes, one at 120 threads per inch (tpi) and one at 240 tpi
for cutting micro-groove discs.

There is a custom-built driver amplifier that has switchable roll-off
and is capable of delivering more than twice the power of the original
one.  This is all mounted in a custom cabinet that is mounted on
casters.  There are many extra styli included.

Obtaining new blank discs may be a problem as there aren't many places
that carry them.  I used to get them from Newark but I don't believe
they carry them now.

It would be necessary to have someone come here to pick up the disc
recording outfit as I'm not physically able to handle it myself any
more.

I sold another disc recorder several years ago.  It was a Presto with
both lead screws, inside out, and outside in.  The guy that bought
it wanted to make some up-to-date records to play on his old 78 rpm
juke box.

Another recorder that I had that was made to cut special recording
machine discs would make records that would play on 45 rpm machines,
too, and that went to another juke box collector.

This one, I used for making micro-groove recordings mostly for audition
discs as the talent agencies used to not accept tape recordings.  Their
philosophy was that if a performer was really serious enough for them
to handle that s/he would spend the money to have a decent disc made.
Bill Rothe at Artists Corporation of America, in Milwaukee WI, helped
me get started in that business, and I did it for about ten or twelve
years off and on.

I'd also made the 'master' discs for some micro-groove albums. but when
stereo became the 'only way to go' I dropped out of the business except
for making a few recordings for friends who wanted to hear the sounds
of some of my mechanical musical instruments such as the Violanos and
the Seeburgs and Coinolas, people that didn't have tape players.  I had
tape recorded mostly on mono tape in the early years back in the fifties
and sixties so mono was satisfactory for that.

My first tape recorder was one that I built myself out of part that
I got from the Recordio Co. salvage in Charlotte, MI, and it would run
at variable speed without changing pitch.  When the people at Recordio
found out about it they asked me to come to work with them, but at the
time I had other more important things going.

It was another of those deals like I did with F.W. Sickles Co. of
Joliet, Illinois.  They offered me a real good job designing equipment
for testing TV components, but I had other more important things going.
I worked on the railroad, and I just wanted to play trains, real trains,
at twelve-inches-to-the-foot scale.

Hal Davis
Box 1, Leslie, MI 49251-0001
517-589-8179
haldavis@modempool.com