Practice run at a DIY turntable

[dnewma04]

Made a little progress yesterday. Some bondo and BIN primer and I've gotten to this point.

 

[grubyhalo]

NICE!

 

[Nanook]

dnewman....

looks very good.
As I fully understand some pressures that come to bear, slow progress is better than no progress....

 

[dnewma04]

Thanks guys, at some point the tonearm board shown earlier in the thread will be made of aluminum, but for now, I'm just getting things painted so they don't look quite as brutal as before. The SAF is remarkably low, as is.

 

[dnewma04]

 

[grubyhalo]

..and it gets better...

 

[dnewma04]

The cellphone pics do a nice job of hiding imperfections.

 

[jeff spall]

That's really transformed with the paint.
Looking like a very cool deck now. Great work!

 

[dnewma04]

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

Just remembered that I never did up date this thread since finishing. It's now residing in my office system with a Cyrus One integrated amp, some DIY speakers, and some modded bogen MO-100s.

 

[kevinkr]

Very cool, and I bet it sounds great..

 

[dnewma04]

Thanks, Kevin.

It sounds pretty ok. I need to isolate the motor a little better in the pod, along with providing some venting for the motor and probably play around with different belts. I've got it at work in that pic and it gets some attention from my coworkers. They are surprised that records can sound tolerable and sometimes, I am too.