New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice

Crem,

FYI, no MDF in the sig plinth; solid corian and lead. great work!

Now for the Flip Side:

Turning over the 'Noll table top-side uprevealed a different bag of worms -- challeges. Imagine a large Q cut-out 1" deep, thats what the top looks like naked an'all. The tail of the Q is the former cut-out for the top-side of the motor mount a slightly disoriented lead paramid with the top lopped off. The Hurst was seated in that flip, then the unit was screwed into the lead base . The off-set "O" is home to the bearings with a 1/2" moat surrounding the plates. I re-screwed the lead motor mount plate back into the flip coating it and the flip with a goodly amount of Roma, covering the "moat" with a thin coating of Roma. Just grunt work anybody can do. I was grunting when I noticed the lead base had buckeled over the years, a slightly convex affair. No problem a few taps of a rubber malot gently flatened the lead base. More on that later. Then a fopa on my part ; I dropped the tone-arm manifold onto a carpet. The manifold was intact but the plastic air inlet snapped off. No crisis but a sign I was tired ... Sleepy Time.

Work, Work and Work Some More :

The Top-side "Q" has been lightly covered with Roma, the beer belly on the lead floor where the bottom half of the bearing sits was slightly pounded so the center of the bearing plate sits on a flatish lead center and the wide, flat portion of the bearing "floats". The bearing got a new center pin , the off-set air inlet got a new air tube repositioned , damped to the metal tube that ultimately attaches the air control system to the turntable base. The tines and bushings are in place . More later...Note: The Roma can be easily cleaned with I/O alcohol.

Charlie: Do you have any pics of your work, I would love to see the work in progress. Tremendous effort, can't wait to see how it turns out.

Oilmanmojo: Sorry I don't ,a real kick in the keester . I just bought a digital camera that I have yet to operate. Before the final set-up a bud is to take a few disassembled Pic's to fill in the blanks. This is a huge amount of work. I think I have 40 hrs.+ more. Most is grunt work , real time consuming. I only hope the effort is worth it. The interesting matter for me is that I believe I correctly understand how these tables actually operate. Next up, the tone-arm.