Advice for Building a turntable


I will be using acrylic and have access to wood, any suggestions? I intend to make it very heavy maybe 100 lbs.or more, is there an advantage to making it heavy?
pedrillo
On my list of things to do is a TT also...way down on the list though....

This is an interesting site with an Intake valve from a Harley Davidson for bearing, I guess you could use a Chevy intake valve also but it won´t sound so cool!!!

http://www.altmann.haan.de/turntable/

I would start here..
Dear Pedrillo: If you can use " metal " material instead of wood or acrylic. If you have two good TT designs one made from wood/acrylic and one from metal, this one outperforms the quality sound reproduction of the non-metal designs, at least in my experience.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.