Første del af Michael Fremer´s besøg hos Rega

all right so we are today we're at Riga and what town are we in here some tendencies southend-on-sea we have towns like that in New York 2000s you know we don't nothing nothing like that alright so this is this is where the administrative part of it which most of you are not interested in because they're interested in because that's how they manage to have a company that stays in business they've people like this that watch the money side of things Terry's here and Terry that's Terry over there that's the electron of genes and and this is a this is work in he started the company he's famous okay here's our token American that's right he's the token American he's busy at work reading the emails okay we're gonna move on from here because this is not what most people are interested in but I want to show them I try to show them this is a wall of oh that's right there was an auction of it for the turntable forty thousand dollars and it is for charity yeah the red rich all right and then this is this is the Queen you know had a collaboration between to help their books sent to the box set and hopefully the turntable is better than the sound of the box I didn't say that yeah okay and then this is uh this is an RP six and some of my readers wanted a one that's gonna be a plane our six-year-old is that in the works its yeah everything so this is this is the artbeat and this is the top of the line which I have to review that I really want to this is this is a bunch of turntables this is the one that was optioned off the same this is the same okay and this was a this is a cartoonist who had a turntable made for him and his book his vinyl adventurous what's going on over here I know what this is it's a company who's telling us they can make this bearing which is the RP a RP tailoring and they're telling us they could have a go at making it better than we currently well using a different process we use a process which is a burnishing reamer which we supply they're saying they can do it better by honing it and they say okay prove it this yeah and I think this is what's going on here these are the readouts of dimension you know we're looking in microns okay yeah these are areas that people don't really realize goes on and all in this I think okay that you make the power P a - I mean the RB 10 that's it it's designed it's billows every paw well this is why you can you can look at anything in there because every part is under review yes nothing can be perfect yeah there's no such thing and we're just always trying to make that happen in the past it was us frustrated what you know telling people it could be now they're coming to us and saying we can do it it's just amazing it's just wonderful we've got you've got 20 30 40 50 surprising can we work with you I think so with bigger which is the same Don I hate being big but there are advantages we had a German company who and again I told Phil forget it Phil don't waste time they wanted to make plastic bearings that's it no way no way they spent 18 months this is a company that has half a billion euro turnover in Germany they're the world's biggest manufacturer of plastic bearings for things like leather copiers and they also made these change system us for cabling on the robots and they said we can make your plastic bear and you can put in your arms and we said I said no Phil followed with their sails and engine the engineer is English again yeah you know you get this happening all over hee hee and the salesperson kept pushing it and pushing it and pushing it samples and Sam wasn't no this is wrong less room and they achieved it in the end and we're using them in our rp1 thunder one plenitude so they're less expensive seeking and they that the tolerance spread is much higher so we could never compress the bearings on our lower-cost arms of just a line path now we can although it's compression in plastic not still it's a compromise again but it's a better compromise than we have before so performance is better performance is better and hostages lower price is lower and the speed of assembly is quicker everyone wins that's great and those of them doing something for us but we said don't do it's impossible and they said just give us a chance guess what now that the technology they've put into that has opened up pop fields they haven't heard anything from us at all other than realizing an opportunity for that yeah for them but now they can do all sort of things have much higher accuracy levels in packaging plastics power supply then my head is what this is what is the node is where testbed turntable are started on about nine years ago look at how to measure speed accuracy on the turntable and it was his final year degree this is a laser imprinted disc Blaze's and compares it we're including this is about a gallon iron so you could adjust the speed encompassing what I want but you know show you more about this okay sure sure we'd like he's also doing a strain gauge for measuring stylus pressure problem is it ended up to accurate too accurate well you know we've got two places of decimals potentially works two three places the the gauge is part of a Formula One telemetry unit so if you're trying to measure cartridge down the last two figures of my living force measuring size make it very far so he's having to Dan yes but we found there's another uses a piece of measuring we can measure how we were talking about before seismic vibration on their turntable and we could use it to see the level speed and so you're gonna make this as a product it'll be a little Beyonce's pressure gauge spreading yourself yeah exactly nothing special just and what is that gonna cost we know yet 150 pounds oh we can't do a cheap one no why there's a lot of those when they break yeah week or two or three and you put the stylus down right on that yeah just put the sauce on there and it gives a readout great again we're just thinking later oh my gosh that's from Philippines it's chocolate Oh will you break it out and eat it at some point but it they could but it's a triplet okay here we go here is what the accountants criticized well rather get it in you get it out we decide where's the best place to put your profit it's an infrastructure investment and stock and these are these are police these would probably be rejection on that you're behind but we we think the best thing we can do for our distributors is deliver yeah when they want it and if you run out 1 million and you come to can't deliver so we yeah I got miss Alice these are things coming these parts coming in or things going those we don't have we can't store them so they had to go out within a day or now we could just take them on the line storage repository stuffy's export well always has been is hardly it might change plus or minus two three percent for most of our Buck's very picky I love about walking people are in different areas and now it's the whole bridge we got and repaint always at hours of being painting describes the very much alright so now you know I was here 20 years ago it was not like this at all no I mean change changes everything all right so this section how we're gonna do is I will yeah we and we don't even think we believe that speeds things up we're not we will use a robot different it's necessary if it helps we best in quest but we find people senses and feel and touch and sight outstrip any any form of that's good robotics and if you use it is use its commercials if you do it properly it's actually financially independent its plus you get wonderfully happy people that which is always been everybody already working up in doing up to the task and happy we'll see what's going on yeah yeah certified mr. Thierry because the assembly has to be appropriately cost right this is high-end we're making maybe a hundred a month there [Music] [Applause] so he where he's cut out [Music] when the only problem is the loo this this material the sperm is a plastic that's an igloo so we have to find a dream that would work with the rigidity and that has to be put on by hand with a rollaway can't be sprayed or you learn that any that's tenement lasts all the time yeah concerns he's doing what now what was looks like gluing in little into this law it's got to be done by here yeah you don't want to spook them so this you can watch her yep was stack of RP eights you in different states of assembly well the biggest problem with any form of manufacture and and with any kind of desires tolerances yeah it can't make anything perfectly everything has across all mine what we try and do on one of many things any partner discipline if you've got a bowl going through it and mustn't break okay so in this case because the manufacturing of this phone has a tolerance which is quite big it's difficult to an accuracy of an engine on let's say five thousand we have to measure every one and the selected parts the dollar we benefited in here we are we got 21 nanometer 1900 each one will have a selected part of 1015 you manufacture those parts that drift to the debt that we manufactured in a spread tomorrow we might have you know 19.5 yeah sometimes this is quite big tolerance is about half a millimeter here that's a lot but that's just a moment yet you have some fun one there 20.8 for tomorrow okay and then they make up 20.8 we get a manufacturer curve downstairs getting slightly slightly shim down to fit in that we will get those slightly longer and then actually in our own engine the guys up here will be saying we've got a batch of this today my name is Sam Malone I'll ask you what do you think anything like that could exist in the world okay it's it's normal normal for you okay watch off a full reward here we have expansion in pharmacist we an astronomical at the London so this is a transitory department where we're making any sub assembly ever beyond we've got this is actually you know moving coil cartridges and high copper this coil wine you know that they're moving but there's a transitionary Department in in a corridor this is really so it's so that this is these are which armistice it's just that the pomp of the planet soon but when he's putting together counterweights this gentleman is putting the bearings in hand okay and even though these are this is a less expensive arm it sold fullness is done by hand this is the pony brother separator keeps the wires free from any other parts when they take me sometimes jams in the bearings nice everybody's an expert ha ha ha psychologist into the that's a signatu day certainly not greater satisfaction Senate staffers absolutely and you've a turntable at home when you play records unfortunately not nice I wish I really wish they did why not I just haven't gotten around to buying on their will myself yet let's suit definitely see what I've showed some of the people it's over absolutely yeah he knows somebody as a business yeah really very happily the golfer oh wow he's done this weekend actually this is something that will this area see the movie come across something nah it's only in a giant arm because of your were whining coils how's it going clear it got it under control bad had a really good night class alright got coffee oh that's quite beautiful about four weeks I've been here now yep just getting used to it and how long does it take you to to wire the skills to be able to do what you're doing what god leo bit of an advantage because I've come from the cartridge Department downstairs Oh so I've had a little bit of experience with wires this wire here is a lot thinner than the one in cartridge yeah which is a lot fiddly own it does seem to snap more off than the one downstairs yes how many cops are just can you wind without them never finished it real the shelf-life goes off only mean the shelf length because I'm it has a coating to two coatings 18 microns but then just two coatings is 1 micron additional wire and that coating has a shelf life which means it starts getting stiffener you could you can wind it but after about 2 years it will start to break up around the announcement what's the things I've shown sometimes I have we once it's round it's good forever that's its rounded ski area our and you know the the image and before I do this right here or Japanese yeah yes this is the best iron world and your 85 and your gem at your Japanese yeah no place it out because we could see inspected because she's big difference I think if you wind coils long enough all of a sudden the disease language become part of your how many of these can you do a day just only just winding yeah and they take me about 20 30 minutes a huge yeah so that's if you're going slow on a certain day to someone come along and say speed it up speed it up come on quicker for that nobody would say that yeah that's very fast yeah when Lenny started he used to take off a day one person will take off today to wonder core Wow that was three four years of making features Wow so we spend half a day winding the pole and then the rest of the day putting the countries together well what is the former of that coil is it non-ferrous it is a therasp you so you can get a decent up with that but again we're researching that were looking at ourselves we met of course okay and I hijacked my attention span as being the general I think something relatively unique I'm sure maybe other people are catching on but the concept of using these HD screen yeah it makes the movie point yeah also all moving follow manufacturer up until now relies on tweaking because accuracy is required is so incredibly higher than a card machine right now we can as a renowned machine all our parts everything goes together there's no point and you by the stylist schedule or assembly the reject yeah negotiating but it's put together I'm just check no tweek right so you're just making sure that it the sick the proctor great SEPA tutorials son what's the show you can see that there the the generator here is not quiet flush yeah see if - so when when he's actually on the record while you get sure it's gonna you do points on their presidents selfie brushes the back tracking or not right which is why it's it critics critical when you set up the cartridge to follow the manufacturers recommended traffickers because it's designed to fit with the rest imperative but people say well whatever the manufacturer says it should be if you increase it by two wins it'll sound better and it's gone wrong stuff yeah okay a huge increase in crossbow and you're not in the best part of the gap you're not because protons giving this graticule on this piece of subway it doesn't come to that we had to superimpose it's a little clever computer guys fencing around oh well that's great six right it's a bait yeah it's a long stylus yeah helps with some other compromise its eddying mass yes and that's what what is that kid that's in a woman cantilever this is it in which cartridge is this is it stiff here too great okay thank you so much