[78-L] Wax!

[Malcolm Rockwell]

This clip seems to show both how laminated records were made as well as 
normal "biscuit pressing". One sequence shows a technician rolling out 
the base dough and then coating it with a schlop of lacquer, but no 
further pressing. Slightly later you can see a cube like biscuit being 
centered in a press to be squooshed into a record.
 I loved the part where a gent is doing the final smoothing of a wax 
master while wearing a suit! You never, NEVER wear a tie around spinning 
machinery unless you have a death wish.
I would have liked to see more of the film this was clipped from.
Mal

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Kristjan Saag wrote:
> A newsreel from 1949 about production of shellac records in Germany.
> http://www.teledb.com/4/wdsMb1pwJEw/0/0/-herstellung-einer-schellackplatte.html
> Made from wax masters. I've heard of late use of wax masters in Britain and 
> Sweden as well. Was there any particular reason to continue with wax almost 
> 20 years after the introduction of acetates?
> Kristjan 
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