Whats on your turntable tonight?

@boxer12,

Thanks for the update. It sounds like a labor of love. Did you use any type of adhesive in it’s construction? Are you a machinist? What about the bearing? Any more details a layman could understand.…?
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@reubent ,

Common’ dude.. you have to give more details than that?
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I just installed my Synergistic Blue outlet that feeds my front end.

@boxer12 That is awesome!, did you have the parts made to your spec or do you actually have a lathe that can make a platter that big? mad respect. 

@slaw I keep meaning to pick up Harvest Moon. I will it next run 

Right now:
Sigur Ros  - Ágætis byrjun
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue  - MFSL 45rpm 

Getz/Byrd  - Jazz Samba  - AP 45rpm 200g  - superb

The War on Drugs  "A Deeper Understanding"!!!!

Porcupine Tree / Hand.Cannot. Erase

slaw, 6t5gto, Thank you.
To answer your questions:
I started my career as a tool & die maker, then went into R&D & eventually management. Never lost my love of working with metal though so have had a small machine shop in my basement for about 20 years.
6t5gto, I do not have a lathe large enough to face off the 12" aluminum so had to outsource that. Everything else was made in the basement except the current bearing, which I bought & highly modified.
Slaw, I have many many hours into that bearing. It started out as a commercial jet engine distribution valve which metered the fuel going to the fuel nozzles in that given engine. I picked it because liked the idea of a relatively soft material coated with a thin layer of very hard material. It is about as "decoupled" as possible from the platter while still remaining safe & practical.