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Christmas Tradition time again folks. My annual project for the Christmas Holidays...

To build the best TT in the world (evarrrrr) to match the best amp and speakers (natch)!!!! :-)

The Arm will be a project that Will has been helping me with ( for about the last 27 years.... I've been a bit sloooow, my fault, life etc etc etc), a DIY 12" Schroeder clone thingymagig.

So nuthin' too ambitious then!

So, About 3-4 years ago I built a hefty multi-layered plinth for my GL75 with a Decca Metal Unipivot and mass-loaded DL 103 using Trespa + 2 differing types of ply.
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It's been a great 'listen' all that time but now it's time to start a-fresh. A new project awaits.

About 2 1/2 years ago I bought a tatty-ish G99.... Then I picked up a metal 2 hole idler, then I bought Joels bearing kit.... and started building up a DIY 12" Schroeder clone arm.... and then it's all sat in the bottom of my cupboard since then whilst the GL75 kept me happy.

Some pic's of it all in it's original state and awful plinth.
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Arm (I think) is an Acos Lustre, one of the bearings is broken by the looks of it. I'll sell it for spares on't bay or summat.
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This one, there's a lot of 'play'...
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The G99 is an oldie but goldie! 4th May 1967, I was 1+1/2 years old!!!
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It's clean, complete and fairly bodge free thankfully (so far), motor has a fair amount of end-float and the deck has a plastic idler too booooooo!
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..but luckily I swapped some bits with the lovely Al for a 2 hole metal variant, Huzah!
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Back to lubing and stripping (I'm a Part time Chippendale y'know ;-) )

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I saw you just posted again on the lenco forum :)

Have fun with your 99, lovely things.

Whats your plans then? I see you said slate is a 'no go' at the moment, why's that?
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Graeme wrote: Whats your plans then? I see you said slate is a 'no go' at the moment, why's that?
'cos I ain't got none :lol: I'm clever like that y'know!

Lenco Luvvers has gone :-(

Big ply plinth at the mo', just rebuilding and cleaning the '99 today. Plroblee do a bit of wood cutting tomorrow. S'blummen cold down the shed ('aka The Home of Tone')! I've got some 24mm <gulps> exterior ply I had given to me by a chippy I skate with, he said he had a few 'off cuts'.... they're hoooooooooooooooooge and heavy! :lol:

Should be nice to rout into though and make up a high mass plinth.

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Yeah, lenco heaven now.
I only started posting there again recently.

Theres a beutiful lump of slate local to me but ive no way to transport it, shame.

24mm ply sounds good :)

I read you had thoughts of soft layers. Personaly i'd just go with as big a lump of solid mass as you can muster. Im sure my lenco's performance is partly down to its 60k weight LOL
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Dave the bass wrote:
Graeme wrote: Whats your plans then? I see you said slate is a 'no go' at the moment, why's that?
'cos I ain't got none :lol: I'm clever like that y'know!

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Take a trip to your local monumental mason (no, I don't mean a very big bloke with a funny handshake). They often have offcuts. The slate for Fakedeck cost me £15, and it really really is the bestest thing.

Tip: they'll probably be near the local cemetary...
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Stop! Stoppit now! Slate get behind theee (etc).

If/when I go Slate I'll get a grown-up to cut it but right now this is just a Christmas Project, so Ply it'll have to be. If the 12" arm and G99 live happy together I might think about upgrading to Slate then p'raps.

Top tip about Cemetery's there Shane, I found 2 Crack addicts and a dosser but no stoned Masons.

I've spent too long down a chilly shed today lubing and fettling.

Ply it is for now. A mahooosive lump of it. I'll fit a loft ladder to make changing the record easier..... :)

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Dave the bass wrote:
Top tip about Cemetery's there Shane, I found 2 Crack addicts and a dosser but no stoned Masons.

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Sorry to hear about the crack heads and rough sleeper. Then again, you're not 'sposed to be touring cemeteries looking for Slate.

Stealing head stones :roll: Must be no morals in Dartford :wink: It'd never happen here.
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<points to Devon>

"Shane said it was alright.... he made me do it.... tell 'im Dad!" :lol:

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MMWWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Kent's premier sawdust maker has been working overtime today!

Following ideas over on Lenco Heaven I've gone with the idea of making up a gasket to ground the '99 more rigidly to the plinth rather than just relying on the baseplate surround.

Too blummen ages and involved stripping down my newly lubed and fettled TT, I'll have to do it again as sawdust has got on the freshly lubed surfaces, not the end of the world/ live n learn.
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Then put all the gubbins back in...
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Looks nothing but that took about 2 1/2 hours.

Doesn't even show from the top!
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I've started turning 26mm external ply into sawdust too in preparation for making the plinth. More pics tomorrow.

Forwards!

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Dave the bass wrote:Kent's premier sawdust maker has been working overtime today!

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Can I have some sawdust to re-pack my head pleeeeeeeeeeeeze ? :lol:
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Can I just say....

storage heater bricks :P

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Dave the bass wrote:Top tip about Cemetery's there Shane, I found 2 Crack addicts and a dosser but no stoned Masons.

Ply it is for now. A mahooosive lump of it. I'll fit a loft ladder to make changing the record easier..... :)
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pre65 wrote: Can I have some sawdust to re-pack my head pleeeeeeeeeeeeze ? :lol:
In the post already :lol:
SteveTheShadow wrote:Can I just say....

storage heater bricks :P

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Yes!

I shall reply with Purple Carburettor Photocopier.

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