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Offline BillTodd

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Retro turntable from old computer bits
« on: November 14, 2024, 12:34:24 PM »
Made from parts of a few old harddrives and broken monitors.

The deck is the poly carbonate light-pipe from a 19inch monitor turning on the motor (used only as a bearing) of an HDD  .

The drive motor is another hdd motor driven by a ebay 3ph driver board. it turns the deck using a monofilament fishing line , knotted into a belt.

The arm is 3d printed in resin with a carbon fibre tube and uses more hdd bearings.

The 10mm poly carbonate body is from another 21inch monitor.

The "soundstage enhancing constrained-layer anti-resonance clarity hooves"  (copyright nephew George) are surplus poly V pulleys.

Bill

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Re: Retro turntable from old computer bits
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2024, 01:04:10 PM »
Wow! Very cool, Bill!  :thumbup: :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Re: Retro turntable from old computer bits
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2024, 07:47:29 AM »
Looks very …..chic.. shall we say…  :thumbup:
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Re: Retro turntable from old computer bits
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2024, 11:59:09 AM »
According to my nephew...

"I can see it fitting in perfectly alongside the rocking porcelain penis in A Clockwork Orange"

I may hve to print a resin rocking penis

 :)
Bill

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Re: Retro turntable from old computer bits
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2024, 04:14:43 AM »
All together now:-

An engineer told me before he died, ah hummm... :)

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Re: Retro turntable from old computer bits
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2024, 04:35:38 AM »
I confess, that I had to look that up ,

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Re: Retro turntable from old computer bits
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2024, 03:52:47 AM »
Don't forget the photos! :thumbup:

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Re: Retro turntable from old computer bits
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2024, 10:59:57 AM »
Very cool!
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Re: Retro turntable from old computer bits
« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2024, 06:01:37 AM »
Don't forget the photos! :thumbup:

This was a bloody tricky thing to model in a cad program !
Bill