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In Reply to: RE: Just bought back a table I built! posted by InDaGroove on May 09, 2025 at 17:54:18
I was thinking you might enjoy making your own main platter bearing , since the majority of the table is all your own work. with the ball and flat being such a simple concept, and with the materials now available, spindle precision would be your only challenge.
Admittedly , I am just talking , since I don't know the teres main bearing design, or your interest in revising your work. plus, do it yourself is very rarely my deal, so I would just buy the Michell engineering bearing, , which with such a mass oriented platter might be a good call, since the inverted oil pumping design is successful in Michells own heavy mass platter design.
I will always recognize the value of an individual constructing a solution to their needs. my older brother used to take me around to his friends who, being young lads short on funds, built their own astronomical telescopes. one guy had the third largest privately owned reflector telescope in the US. that's where I was first exposed to the ball and flat bearing design, because they required low friction for the clock drive movements. he once drove over to the then local celestron offices, told them how their optics were crap, and they hired him to redesign their line.
Interestingly enough , the street light in front of this guys parent' s house suffered BB gun attacks on nights when the viewing was good. eventually the city painted one side of the light black.
my brother had the opportunity to put the first graffiti on mars, so he did , his initials are up there forever, on the side of a mirror where they wouldn't cause possible distortion from temperature changes.
when people don't know how to do things, life solutions can get pretty stupid.
I wish I still had the ability to make such things, but my machine shop was also a casualty of the fire, and at 72yo, I just want to enjoy listening 😊
resting on ones laurels sounds good to me, because I'm one year older than you .
bummer about the fire , collecting an entire machine shop must have been very important at the time.
I bought my table ,and recently finished it off with an improved power supply, but can imagine the satisfaction of looking across the room at a record player that I had built myself, having personally experienced the satisfaction of building minor things. I tell you, I can make one heck of a doorstop, my last project.
right now I am assembling a turntable platform. just stacking a bunch of dissimilar isolating materials to execute a mass loaded design, the idea started long years ago when I found two marble slabs being closed out in a department store culinary department , billed as "candy making slabs". why the store buyer thought his mall store customers would be desirous of making candy on 18 x 24 six eighth inch marble slabs I will never know.
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