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The vinyl crowd might appreciate the linked article about a new machine
being used to turn out vinyl records. Be sure to watch the video at
the end of the story - this machine sure looks like a rube goldberg
device to me.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/29/vinyl-record-production-tech-upgrade/
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not rube, nearly all manufacturing machines such as bottling, canning, etc are seemingly flippin' CRAZY. this one, not so much. i also have seen the ones at RTI in socal and they also look a little nuts except they are quite effective.
...regards...tr
I agree...I have a cousin who runs a portable wine filtering/bottling/labeling service in California. The whole shebang is enclosed in two semi trailers. What a crazy contraption! Check out the video...
As an engineer, I love seeing the cumulative ingenuity represented by this automation. That must be a boon for the average winery, to have a service roll up and get your product bottled lickety split.
As a fellow human, I do wonder about the impact on low skill employment and the future of that demographic...
This is what I love about that show. How much engineering goes into making some of the most mundane, common everyday items.
Wonder if How It's Made ever did a show on vinyl record production?
... segments C and D.
If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick everyday ...
- Leonard Cohen
sometimes the announcer's voice is so monotone and droning that it spoils what is being shown.
and yes, i think there are numerous YTs on that.
...regards...tr
It puts me in that same place that Ralph Kiner's voice during a Met game used to back when we were human and had time to sit back and enjoy a baseball game on the TV. Now I look forward to How it's Made during a moment when I can jam a pair of earbuds in my head in between calling the insurance company and finding out why they won't pay for my daughter's x-ray or calling the phone company to find out why the bill went up three times the amount I was told it would.Sometimes I wish for that worldwide EMP :)
Edits: 02/01/17
I can't imagine that will help very much unless they make 20 of them. Maybe the velocity is why it makes the records with less errors than the old ones.
Rube Goldberg? No way. The old ones were very similar in operation. At least this one seems to have a spacer between the finished records where I don't remember seeing one on the old versions. But that may just be bad memory.
The manufacturer claims a faster cycle time than competitive presses. Also it's fully automated. Many pressing plants require one or two operatives per press which consists of three separate machines, one to heat the vinyl granules to make the biscuit or patty, one to press the disc and one to cut away the swarf.
The second video seems to have the machine running at a faster spped.
I think the slowness was to allow the process to be filmed easily.
I bet it is capable of running much faster.
One wonders what is the optimum time for the puck to stay under pressure?
Makes sense! Hey whatever keeps the records coming.
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If you think this looks Rube Goldberg, try looking at a vintage machine sometime.
OK, plastic is a bit different in processing than rubber, but this machine looks pretty sensible to me. It preheats and meters out the vinyl slug with great accuracy, delivers it to the stamper, pulls, trims, and stacks the record. The article's claim of 24,000 per day when operating 6 machines will require it to run at least 2X faster than that demo clip, by my watch and calculator. I would simply add a guard to prevent any possibility of the vinyl trimming striking one of the records in the stack - - it looks somewhat haphazard just now.
All in all, it looks like a well thought out automated machine. If this seems "Rube Goldberg-ish" to you, you should get out and see manufacturing some time. It's how the products you handle are made, when done well.
Having seen the presses at QRP in operation, I had the same thought.
I'll say it looks like Rube Goldberg re-incarnated. Somehow i question its reliability.
you might have noticed there's a vinyl forum here? :)
I'm well aware of the vinyl forum. I decided that posting this in
General might get more eyes on the story.
of having specialized fora if everything is dumped here?
Nice machine. I wish them every success with it. Record presses are Rube Goldberg devices anyway.
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