Alternative platters ?

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Originally Posted by synsei

They turn up regularly on ebay for reasonable sums Mike...

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I have never sen prawn balls on fleabay.... sweet and sour sauce yes, but no prawn balls :lol:

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Originally Posted by PaulStewart

I have never sen prawn balls on fleabay.... sweet and sour sauce yes, but no prawn balls :lol:

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How remiss of them, I shall post some up forthwith.... :lol:

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Originally Posted by Mike_New

You are absolutely correct if you can find them now, or has no one told you that the Techie is no longer manufactured any more, so platters, circuit boards and other miss parts are no longer freely available and indeed some parts are as scarce as prawn balls.

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Mike, I could hardly have notched up 15k posts on AoS without noticing a thing or two like the discontinued manufacture of 'that' turntable, now could I?!
Take a look on Ebay mate, & you'll see that the place is bursting with them, and that they regularly sell for between £15 and £40-odd.

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Originally Posted by Mike_New

...prawn balls.

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:lol: We have a winner. :lol:

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Originally Posted by Qwin

In response to Al’s original question, this is my take on alternative platters.

It’s the platter off a tatty ProJect RPM 9 I purchased cheap off flea bay.

http://www.jkwynn.co.uk/Project_Imag...latter_012.jpg

I had a local model maker knock up an adaptor and it fits perfect, it powered up first time and runs smooth.

The only tweak necessary was to give the brake about a quarter of a turn on the adjuster, this platter is 38mm thick Acrylic and weighs 3.5Kg which is approximately twice that of the stock Technics Platter.

There was a bit more to it than that really, see how I did it here: http://www.jkwynn.co.uk/Platter_HTML...er_Thumbs.html

Well that's the drive principle proven, I had better design a deck to put it in. :eyebrows:

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Ever since replinthing one of my SL-1500MK2's, I've wanted to do the same to one of my 1200's based around a Mike New bearing and a Mike New base plate (and probably a Mike New platter). Shoot Mike, why not just make a Mike New plinth?? I know you've got this posting elsewhere on the web; but, I love to follow this as a write up in the DIY section of AOS. I'd follow with interest.

I generated a design for a totally new plinth about 2 years ago I guess, and sugested that we would be looking at probably about $2K at least
but there were no takers but lots of interest.

Could you publish some detail and perhaps a mock-up or set of drawings? There might well be some interest here.

Because of the complexity of the 3 dimensional shape required it would be a task for a 3D NC controlled milling machine.
I could perhaps supply the design model to David B and he could arrange for a prototype, but the problem is who is going to underwrite the cost??
It was my intension that either Alluminium or hard wood could be used.
I just believe that it would not be economical in less than batchs of 10

I would suspect hardwood would be far preferable, in view of how successful ebony is as an armboard.

I do understand the underwriting costs. I wish I had the necessary machine tools and time myself, I would try fabricating one from layers of wood.

Make it out of layers of ply - cut 6mm MDF templates for each layer on a laser cutter and use an inverted router to shape each layer with a guided cutter. I've done similar things many times before. The finished plinth can then be veneered in whatever takes your fancy.