The Mike New Bearing Base Plate

Cool… Got a link to the ebay ad you used? :)

Marco.

They trade under the name "chill grills.com" they fabricate specialist grilles for VW's as well as these plates. If you go to their website the link to the Technics top plates is on the home page. All of the various styles are shown. They didn't list what I wanted ie plane without cutouts for pitch and disc adapter so I just emailed and they did a special. Very helpful
Steve

www.chillgrills.com

That cover does look sweet Steve.:cool:

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Originally Posted by worrasf

I claim my wine gum Andrei :)

Just gotten around to taking a photo of the top plate sans slider and disc adapter cut outs.
I'm very pleased with the looks.
Steve

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You do seem to come up with some interesting ideas Steve. That is a pretty decent faceplate - certainly worth a packet of winegums, and half a pound of acid drops, nigger balls & mackintosh toffees. I would get one but I've done my dash for the moment with a new amp, pre-amp and a pair of telefunken valves.

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Originally Posted by worrasf

They trade under the name "chill grills.com" they fabricate specialist grilles for VW's as well as these plates. If you go to their website the link to the Technics top plates is on the home page. All of the various styles are shown. They didn't list what I wanted ie plane without cutouts for pitch and disc adapter so I just emailed and they did a special. Very helpful
Steve

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Interesting, Steve. If I bought all the bits, would you remove the pitch control and stuff on my T/T and then fit the new top-plate? I’d bring my T/T to you and we could tie it in with a music sesh, as West Yorkshire isn’t too far away! I’d also pay you for your trouble :)

PM me, if you fancy it :cool:

I’m thinking brushed stainless steel, or even gloss white could be cool….

Marco.

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Originally Posted by worrasf

I claim my wine gum Andrei :)

Just gotten around to taking a photo of the top plate sans slider and disc adapter cut outs.

I'm very pleased with the looks.

Steve

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Just seen this, looks stunningly good in the photo and I would imagine in reality... do tell? Would the Company who made this for you do a similar one but also blank out the barrel on/off switch and the pop up target light leaving just the squared of holes on the bottom left for On/Off and 45+33rpm speed selection, in other words just cut outs for the latter and of course the arm mounting plate? If they do I will be ordering one minus the Techy logo as technically (no pun intended :eyebrows:) with all the mods and upgrades I have done in the past five years, it isn't strictly speaking a Techy as such anymore. By the way is your top plate bonded to your deck of just friction fitted?

As for irreversibly bonding your MN bearing to the main chassis you are a brave man. I was one of the early adopters of the MN bearing and base plate and when I bought my BBP direct from MN he drilled three additional countersunk holes alongside the five fixing bolt holes so that I could further secure my MN bearing to the base plate first prior to fitting the entire assembly to the main chassis with the addition of breakable automotive gasket paste should I ever wish to renew the bearing but I guess the bearing is going to outlast me! Somewhere in the historic and ancient vaults of AoS Marco did publish my work relating the foregoing but I guess by now its long gone... I was motivated my Cablemaker1 of this parish who had also published details of his work on a sticky here.

Your deck, as it stands, now looks a true classic.

All the best for 2015,

Ron

Thanks Ron - I'm really pleased with the way it's turned out both sonic and visual. I'd be pretty confident that they could do you a "special" from what I can gather the factory has a press to fabricate these and they can change the die settings - drop them a line on their website. Regarding bonding they supply some double sided tape but I elected to leave it as a simple friction fit in case I needed to get at the OEM top plate or put it back into original spec (pretty rich seeing as I bonded the MN bearing in)
BTW the logo was sourced from a different supplier so no worries for you on that front
Steve

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Originally Posted by worrasf

Thanks Ron - I'm really pleased with the way it's turned out both sonic and visual. I'd be pretty confident that they could do you a "special" from what I can gather the factory has a press to fabricate these and they can change the die settings - drop them a line on their website. Regarding bonding they supply some double sided tape but I elected to leave it as a simple friction fit in case I needed to get at the OEM top plate or put it back into original spec (pretty rich seeing as I bonded the MN bearing in)
BTW the logo was sourced from a different supplier so no worries for you on that front
Steve

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Thanks Steve, useful info for me as all I have to do now to my Tech is to improve the appearance overall, at the moment I have used Carbon fibre sheet cut to correct tolerance and thence bonded but I now want to move away from this to something more classical as per your endeavour. I shall let the festive season finish and then get in touch with 'chillgrills.com', in the meantime I shall give consideration as to a final look that I want... Marco mentioned stainless steel but that would clash with the shine of my MN Cu/Al platter. With piano black I would imagine that finger marks would eventually irritate, maybe a powdered grey/black finish to match my classic Naim amps should be considered, what think you?

Cheers mate, now back to my tumbler of Scotch... just to see in 2015 of course :)

PS: Who did your logo for you and I'm assuming it come with adhesive backing?

Ron