After acquiring a 1973 Goldring Lenco GL78 I thought I'd better
try toget it up and running with a decent modern arm, so....
Before playing about with mass damping and giving myself a hernia, I thought I'd better make a test plinth to see what all the fuss is about regarding idler driven record players.
Hunting around for some materials that could be pressed into service for nowt, I came across some 1 1/2" laminated kitchen worktop in the cellar. This was reasonably heavy high density chipboard with a coarse-grained core so I figured it would work nicely to absorb vibrations.
First job after cleaning up the deck and polishing the top plate with Auto Glym car polish was to hack off the left hand corner. This would leave room to fit the Origin Live RB251.
In order for the Rega's armrest projection to clear the top plate, it had to be marked with an angled cut going to the edge.
Here it is all mercilessly hacked about.
After the top plate surgery, the worktop was cut out with a slightly modified template so as to allow for the angled cut on the deck top plate, otherwise there would have been nowhere to fix the arm.
With the deck firmly fixed to the chipboard plinth and a set of black tubular legs fitted, the RB251 arm was put in place. Because of the length of the arm I had to fit it at an angle to prevent the fingerlift fouling the on/off switch.
A couple of bits of pine strip to hide the chipboard edges and we are in business.
Quite frankly I'm stunned at the sound of this thing
Steve