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Funny you should mention that shane, ive been mulling over changing the wand for a titanium tube instead of a carbon fibre one for the last few days. Im in two minds as to wether to do it as it would mean changing 2 things at once. Ive settled on the design and material for the arm pillar, settled o...

No worries simon, i thought you would be rather busy
Might have both of the versions built by then, ive just ordered some more brass bar for a new pillar for this one, stuff i had in was 16mm not 20 as i thought it was

Decided to try an aluminium bearing housing instead of the acetal one. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51357659129_729fba3cbe_k.jpg Cx unipivot version 7/a by anthony cresswell , on Flickr The carbon fibre tube and aluminium stub and headshell is off the one that our Simon assessed, I'll make a ...

Got another job completed on the Akai, I made a replacement cap for the pinch roller. Bit of aluminium, more of a pain in the arse than i thought it would be to be honest. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51352464328_03eb1e99e8_k.jpg Charity shop akai 4000ds mk2 by anthony cresswell , on Flickr H...

Take the cadwell to cadwell! Good place to run it in

Adam and the ants - kings of the wild frontier

Did a little more work on the arm, made a heavier counterweight. I did try adding some lead to the existing one but it altered the mass distribution of the counterweight and did strange things to the lateral balance so i sacked that and did it properly with some more steel. If anyone wants some stic...

Last weekend i did abit more work on the charity shop akai. To try to sort out the pitch instability i took the feed reel table to bits to have a look at the felt clutch arrangement at has, and have a look at the back tension mechanism. The reel table clutch is fairly simple, comprised of several wa...

Every time i hear rolling stones not fade away i immediately think of the scotch tape advert

Very sorry to hear that greg, please pass on our condolences

On this arm the brass mounting plate is what adds the weight Because it is directly over the top of the cart, and moves with the cart when it is aligned, i have to calculate the plate in with the cart weight rather than as a headshell. It does interesting things to the calculation if you add it in a...

Interesting... just been looking at dl103's while looking for carts. As we know, they have have a compliance of 5, and i suddenly remembered that that figure was arrived at measured at 100hz. So its not 5, its somewhere around 9 ish at 10hz. Hence looki g at them at all. I then found an article that...

Im in need of a couple of cartridges to help with testing of the new arm Ideally to buy, but if anyone is daft enough to lend me something id appreciate it Ive got the dynavector which is what it has been tested with throughout, but i need to see how it performs with other stuff. I sold off my colle...

Son no 1 had a presentation and q&a session through school with jim kennedy, ex nasa director today Very interesting, got to ask him questions about all sorts of things. Of course some joker asked if aliens were real... A few weeks ago they had one with the chief aerodynamicist from the aston ma...

Faffing with the lathe. I wanted to use the fine feed when i was making the parts for the latest version of the arm im working on, however to do that the change gears must be...well.... changed. Getting at the ones on the apron is no problem if a little fiddly, getting the spindle gear off is anothe...