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    Thanks John for your support.
    I am waiting in paroxisms of orgasmic delight for the first 10 contibuters!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike_New View Post
    Thanks John for your support.

    You're welcome Mike.

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    I am still waiting for the first buyer come on people do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    I thought the orders were flowing in, and you’d had 10 already, or something, or have I misread that?

    Marco.
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    Sorry Marco, I said I was waiting for the first ten. I did not say I had them

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    Best of luck with the sales Mike

    Another satisfied punter here
    TAD CD / DAC / Pre, Technics 1210, MCRU PSU, Mike New Bearing & Platter, Stillpoints LP1 weight, Speedy Steve Ebony armboard, Fidelity Research FR64FX arm, Ortofon SPU. Aurorasound VIDA Phono Pre Amp, TAD Power Amp, TAD E1 speakers. Coherent RTZ 3 Grounding box, Coherent grounding cables, Creaktiv racks. Coherent Mains Cables. SR Blue Fuse. Interconnects : Coherent and Yannis 223.5 Connect Litz. Coherent speaker cable. Audio Magic Transcendence Conditioner. Coherent mains socket. Mains Filters : , PS Audio Harvesters, Russ Andrews Purifiers, Tacima, Vertex. Black Ravioli and RDC supports. Electric Beach S1NX platforms for TAD CD and Technics. Ferrite chokes everywhere except the above. Ears, brain

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    What I must impress on everyone is that I am a retired consulting engineer. I am making these Bearings and other upgrades because I enjoy
    the challenge of making the SL the intrument that it can be.

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    Not sure if anyone has said this before. I suspect that you might sell more easily if installation of the bearing didn't require snipping solder tags on the back of the circuit board. Could the existing bearing design be tweaked, altered so the risk of shorts was removed. I think, feel this may put some of who are not confident re removing solder. Yours is the only replacement bearing, pretty sure of this, that is not an easy simple swap out for the original.

    I have also wondered if widening the width of the bearing, where it interfaces with the bottom plate of the turntable (around the hole the bearing sits into) to be an integral baseplate would not be better than having to add your plate, just a thought.


    Regards Neil

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    The design of my Bearing is predicated on achieving the maximum amout of metal where it matters down low.
    The few wires that may protrude above the circuit board vary across all the production models so it would be silly to restrict the
    performance of the Bearing just because these wires need to be snipped off.

    Widening the width of the mounting flange is a good point and one which I have considered, however it would have to be an integral part of the Bearing
    which would entail a greater amount of machining and wasted metal. And hence it would increase the price.

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    I used a layer of insulation tape on top of my bearing to help prevent shorts.
    A simple mod that took a couple of minutes for me to do.
    Kevin

    Too busy enjoying the music....

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