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Quite a few things have been listened to today, all on the cans. I finally got the jvc ql-y3f completely fixed by milling out a(nother) replacement arm lifter and fitting it with a guide pin so it cant rotate, which the earlier one was doing. It resulted in it not lifting because it had moved, but t...

The motor in my oracle is a dc one, its a papst thats built like the slow speed pancake motors in dd decks. Oracle went back to ac motors and power supplies that generate the required 50hz ect wave. The xerxes is the same, ac with oscillators. Speed stability with the oracle and the xerxes is good e...

Perhaps make one from acetal bar, a part made to fit the motor drilled and tapped say m4 for a threaded acetal rod with a nicely faced thrust surface? Wouldnt take two minutes to make, and would work the same. Acetal works real nice in lenco bearings to replace the nylatron original thrust pad In fa...

That motor appears to be missing its thrust pad, should be a round grey plastic cap under the motor spindle, i cant remember if the early ones had one though so it might be ok

Just looked back through the archives and it was 2011 when i last did a td150! Must get another one to play with at some point. I think that was the third one id done. As if i dont have enough decks to prat about with.. Just pulled the board out of the sl150 i have to be recapped... Maybe when we fi...

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It'll set you off ray, you'll end up with 'several' in not a lot of time

Still got it sat there simon, couple of tap washers or something to space it off so the tx has the necessary clearance and it would solve the problem. Think of the gap as ventilation..

Or i could take it off your hands, just to relieve you of all the associated stress..

Imagine those 18 inch drivers sat below a pair of 15 inch fanes in a biiiiig box....

The f5 seems to do what i like, tbh i have no other amps any more so i havent got anything to compare it to. Only other system i have heard in years is dads and i havent sat down in front of that one for a long time either. It did stop me looking for an amp, i havent had any inclination to look for ...

I found similar to nick when i got hold of the nelson pass f5 and b1 that i use. I went from a kt77 amp to the f5, and i havent used a valve amp since. I found that the source started to make much more of a difference. The phono stages, decks, arms and carts i was using became a bottleneck. I dont r...

Took daughter up to Leicester University yesterday, was a lot harder than i expected to actually leave her there and come home.
Really nice campus at de montford, not the towering grey edifices i was expecting, id not been there when she originally went to look

Are there any issues with a unipivot on a spring sub-chassis turntable? Ive used a sonus f4 and mayware f4 on a td150 in the past and i use my own unipivot on my oracle. Works fine, no different considerations to any other sort of arm really. Re a lathe, a hobbymat md65 in reaonable nick is easy en...

Mine had the headstock bearings replaced before i got it, had the reciept from essel for the work in with the paperwork. It has a whacking great singer sewing machine handwheel grafted onto the leadscrew in place of the little standard one which i find pretty handy. I run a 4 jaw on it all the time,...

The cole has the tx in a separate box and everything else in the main box, that has the ht, a 6.3v for the rectifier and a 10v for the dc heaters for the signal valves, plus the main earth connection in the umbilical. There might be something else in there, i cant remember. Seems to work ok. The cab...