Another Batch of Bearings from Mike New

[Mike_New]

You need to be careful if you do this as some of the circuit boards have much longer wires protruding and will poke through the
soft insulation tape.
Really, how much effort does it take to snip off the wires with nail scissors???

[Marco]

Nice to see you using your trade room, Mike. Keep up the good work!

Btw, posting some pictures of your bearings here now and then would also help generate interest in them, especially if you do it in conjunction with a picture of a stock Technics bearing, and let folk see just how much of a toy the latter is in comparison!!

Marco.

[Mike_New]

Yea OK I will do that but my avatar should help to tell the story.

[CageyH]

You need to be careful if you do this as some of the circuit boards have much longer wires protruding and will poke through the
soft insulation tape.
Really, how much effort does it take to snip off the wires with nail scissors???

This was in addition to trimming the tails.
Really, how much effort does it take to add some tape?

[Mike_New]

My apologies, I misunderstood your post

[Marco]

Yea OK I will do that but my avatar should help to tell the story.

In my experience, in sales, you can never ‘front up’ your products too much….

Marco.

[Tarzan]

In my experience, in sales, you can never ‘front up’ your products too much….

Marco.

Didn't somebody get banned for that?

[Spectral Morn]

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.

Yes but would the price be greater than the combined price of bearing and plate? If not and as many say the plate should be used perhaps a combined unit might be an option. Call it product improvement.

Regards Neil

[Mike_New]

Hi Neil, yes I could
But you see the Base Plate really is only required if you want to get the utmost best out of the SL.
And in particular when using my ETP Platter.
This is why I have evolved a modular upgrade path.
Both need to be separate componenets for obvious reasons.
You see people are continually asking for me to produce a less costly Bearing, this cannot be done at the quality and performance I provide.
And we have yet another "vendor" making high claims for a piece of brass screwed to the existing weak cast alloy bearing-housing thus weakening it further.
And at Pstg85.00 I guess it sounds cheap, which is good for the supplier as the piece of 40mm brass bar would only cost about Pstg 15.00. So his profit margin on Pstg 85.00 is far better than mine!!!! (about Pstg65.00 for his own labour!!) and No capital investment outlay of thousands of dollars.

[allthingsanalogue]

I will post some photos of your bearing compared to the basic one!

How come the bearing oil never needs changing? Just wondering.

ATB

Andrew