Record Cutter Repair - Wilcox-Gay Recordette Part 1

Today we attempt to get a 1950s Wilcox-Gay Recordette functioning. Got close but not quite there.
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[@nonsuch]

Nice! I picked up the exact same one off eBay as well about 15 years ago. Everything worked but, It didn't have a cutting needle and I didn't have any blank vinyl so, I just put it away for a while. Eventually, I removed the amplifier and made a guitar amp out of it. I still have the suitcase and the rest of the parts, I believe. I generally never get rid of anything. Hopefully you'll get yours recording!

[@rafaelkleinmuller-schellac3956]

Try using a CD to cut, there are some videos on UA-cam cutting and playing

[@Demo12345]

That screw looking thing is known as a worm gear, actually it makes a lot of sense and makes me think of the worm gear setup in Edison diamond disc players. In those machines the arm floats above the disc and a worm gear is what is actually used to advance it.

[@petrosbadalyan326]

How much is it?

[@1marcelfilms]

they really named it will cox gay huh

[@linorocha6319]

I think you are recording in mono , so it's normal that you don't see side to side movements on the groves, usually mono records are up-down movements.

[@fanbladeinstruments]

You're thinking of wax cylinders which use a hill and dale cutting action, Edison also used this on his very early Edison Diamond disks, but literally every other record ever made uses lateral movement. Standard mono is strictly side to side, a standard stereo groove may have some hill and dale movement but that is a side effect of the two channels intersecting on either side of the cutting.

[@wadehedgren386]

Super interesting... But dude, get a tripod. Watching you one-hand everything is quite distracting...

[@samuelfellows6923]

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