Another “How to choose an arm” question

It’s ANZAC day in the antipodes, but I swung by the local aluminium place today.
The sign said closed, but the shed door was open. 😃
The fellow was working on his “hot rod”, and I got an off cut of 10mm thick alloy.

I can get that shaped to fit into the Sota, and the three screw holes that attach it to the table.
Then later I can mark out the 222mm spindle distance.

The F.S./Thrax info says use a 24-25mm diameter hole… so I’ll see if there is a 15/16 Forstner bit, or reamer.
I’ll  just go slow and bore the hole on a drill press allowing the bit to cool occasionally.

Maybe I need to start a thread on how to pick out a cartridge next 😋

@holmz The searching out a Base Plate for the new Tonearm, landed you in the Company of a individual working on their Hot Rod / Custom Vehicle.

I'm sure the observations and possibly the banter were a nice distraction from the HiFi Interest. If you ever need a High Quality Aesthetic Paint Coating applied to a item that is owned, I am sure the Hot Rod owner can direct you.

I had a very good experience with a Custom Paint Shop when I was to have a TT Chassis recoated, I got the full treatment of being shown all the processes and was shown numerous samples.

I was very impressed with a work being done whilst I was there and settled for this as a 5 Coating Finish with Lacquer Application as well.   

I'm sure the observations and possibly the banter were a nice distraction from the HiFi Interest. If you ever need a High Quality Aesthetic Paint Coating applied to a item that is owned, I am sure the Hot Rod owner can direct you.

Always good to have a chat with like minded people.
He indicated surprise that I knew what a Caterham was.

@rauliruegas, now don't get lazy on us. This is after all an analog thread. Besides you will get the wrath of god for playing CDs. We all know that people with real HiFi's can not tolerate CDs. They are bad for your hearing and Coca Cola has imbedded advertising in them to make you thirsty, or was that Anheuser Busch?

Seriously, it took a while for everyone to get their act together when CDs first came out. The initial mastering and players were with few exceptions hideous. To many ears their reputation was permanently damaged which is not entirely fair. There is the problem of dynamic compression (loudness wars) but, that is done primarily with popular music not so much with jazz and classical. My Slipknot days are long gone. Some music is only available on CDs which I will buy and upload them to my hard drive. The computer then up-samples them on playback. This works quite nicely.

The vast majority of music is now stored in digital because it's performance will not decline with time and it is an enormous space saver. It then becomes easy to keep library copies in two locations avoiding a situation like the Universal Music Fire in which we lost a huge amount of music permanently.