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Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II

“For those who want the moon but can't afford it or those who can afford it but like to have fun and work with their hands, I'm willing to give out a recipe for a true high-end 'table which is easy to do, and fun to make as sky's the limit on design/creativity! The cost of materials, including 'table, is roughly $200 (depending, more or less), and add to that a Rega tonearm. The results are astonishing. I'll even tell/show you how to make chipboard look like marble and fool and impress all your friends. If there's interest I'll get on with this project, if not, I'll just continue making them in my basement. The next one I make will have a Corian top and have a zebra stripe pattern! Fun! Any takers?”

The Lead in “Da Thread” as posted by Johnnantais - 2-01-04

Let the saga continue. Sail on, oh ships of Lenco!
mario_b
ccryder
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Hi everyone - thanks to Mario and all the rest for the restart of this incredible thread - although from the looks of ebay, for all those on the outside looking in, finding a usable Lenco seems to be getting pretty hard.

I have a pretty significant hum, sort of like a ground hum, that begins when I turn the table on. It only impacts one channel, and it lessens significantly when I move the arm (VPI 10) from its rest - although it does not fully disappear. This makes me think it is vibration being absorbed into the base - the pivot is indeed close to the motor as the table is turned 90 degrees (but the arm never crosses over the motor), but it seems to come throught the cartridge or arm, because when I remove the connection from the arm to the pivot, the hum stops. The hum remains the same when the platter is removed, but immediately ceases when I turn it off. The fact that only one channel picks up this hum is confusing.

Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks as always, Chuck.

PS: The thing still sounds stunning, even with this little hum - just stunning.
mgreene
107 posts
 
That's interesting Chuck. Have your tried reversing all of your cables? I can recall some strange humm and interference scenarios in NYC years ago that I traced to dirty connectors at the cartridge pins. The fact that it is only one channel makes me think that it is tonearm wire related.

MIke
cello
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ccryder
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Hmmm. That makes some sense. I will fool around with it later this week and see what happens. Thanks.
goughary
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Bornin50 - So I've been looking for an AT1005 and can't seem to locate one. Any suggestions? Is there a particular deck that came with that arm standard? I'd rather not buy an entire deck, but so the story goes...

Any other suggestions out there on the right arm for an L70 when you don't want to lop off the corner or drill out a new hole? I don't mind enlarging the hole that's there, but What I am looking to do on my second L70 is to end up with a good looking vintage deck that sounds really good.

So - what to use? After all these years, I imagine that everything has been tried. Most of the great stuff here has been with the L75 and L78, clearly, but who are the lovers of the L70? Who hasn't cut theirs up, found the right arm and had a good set up with proper VTA, etc?

And where did the pictures go? I keep looking for pictures but they don't seem to come up anymore.

By the way Bornin50- you gave me some advice a year ago, and though I have no idea what that advice was, I used it, and the table I built with two arms (both SME 3009) came out great and sounds pretty good...But this one isn't going to have a big SME hole cut in it. And it won't have the same VTA problems that the other has...
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