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.
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.