[Doug]

Doug wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:
In article ,
Doug wrote:
Hi -

Here's something fun to watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSKT4QOccCo

It's been taken down. What was it?

I did find:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUGRRUecBik

Trip to Transco, then to a mastering room. Looks like it might be Carl
Rowatti from Trutone? Part two takes you to a pressing plant
but I can't identify it.
--scott



Hi Scott -

You're right - looks like the original video I linked to was taken down. The
one you found is the same thing, split into two sections. It's from the TV show
"How It's Made".

I don't know where this was filmed (I'm sure you know more about these things
than I do). I do know that "How It's Made" more often than not features
companies / plants /factories in Canada since that's where the show originates.

Regards,

-- Doug



Hi -

I just checked the How It's Made website and found the following information (so
it looks like Scott got it right!):

http://www.commentcestfait.com/html/anglais/index2.html

Vinyl Records #1

"Transco Products (Linden, NJ)

www.transcousa.com

Hub Servall (Cranbury, NJ)
Trutone (New York, NY)
Mastercraft Metal Finishing (Elizabeth, NJ)


Vinyl Records #2

"Transco Products (Linden, NJ)

www.transcousa.com

Hub Servall (Cranbury, NJ)
Trutone (New York, NY)
Mastercraft Metal Finishing (Elizabeth, NJ)

-=--=-

Regards,

-- Doug

[Scott Dorsey]

Doug wrote:

I just checked the How It's Made website and found the following information (so
it looks like Scott got it right!):

http://www.commentcestfait.com/html/anglais/index2.html

Vinyl Records #1

"Transco Products (Linden, NJ)

Easy give-away, because there are only two companies in the US making
lacquers, and one of the shots had a Transco box on it.

Hub Servall (Cranbury, NJ)

I missed this, and in fact I didn't even know these guys existed! But in
retrospect, I think their name was on one of the test pressing labels.

Trutone (New York, NY)

This one was a give-away. There are lots of Neumann lathes like that
out there, but Carl's beard and belly are very distinctive.

Mastercraft Metal Finishing (Elizabeth, NJ)

I didn't guess this, but it's not surprising, because Mastercraft does the
plating work for just about every pressing plant in the country that does
not have their own plating line. Which is most of them these days, thanks
to the EPA.
--scott

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