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Belt drive Reks are single speed, also Idler drives have a sound of their own.

If you really hate yourself get an idler drive motor unit (rek o kut, Russco but forget Garrard) and a separate tonearm. Or a Technics SP-10/15/25 and separate tonearm. You'll have to come up with a plinth. If you get a Rek avoid the General Industries death cube motor, you'll never get rid of...

Yeah i was gonna check the waveform before plugging the motor in. Maybe just need a smaller diameter capstan.

Okay the VFD might be a dead end, it was advertised as being for 120 volts but won't run on that, gonna plug it into 240 later for the lulz. I figured out the arm board, had to notch out. not real square but close enough. 60 mil roofing EPDM for decoupling.

I'm also considering a SAEC WE-308L arm, should be 265mm spindle to pivot distance. We'll see if that lines up, I shoulda put the motor unit closer to the right hand side. I guess I could notch out the plinth some more for a longer arm board lol

So the Benchmarks aren't the benchmark anymore?

I may look into that, the original plan was to just have long bolts thru the arm board into the plinth. My ability to make things square/level/straight isn't great.....

I'm not sure yet, I had to re glue last night, didn't sand off the finish where I glued it, it came apart....d'oh. I also screwed up the arm board. Once I have the arm board fixed I'll probably put the RB300 back on it to check for rumble. Obviously I don't need the arm board to mount a 9" arm...

Shot of the acacia strips between the cutting boards

The notch in the right hand corner is for an arm board to accommodate a 16" tonearm. For now I'll be mounting the Micro Trak 306 (269mm spindle to pivot distance) but I'm eyeing a Stax UA-70 (300mm spindle to pivot distance). The arm board I'm coming up with will be easily detachable and...

So I got two 16 x 20 rubberwood cutting boards and one 15 x20 acacia cutting board from Ross and i came up with this. An angle grinder with a wood carving wheel plus a Dremel made this possible.

Okay so the Rek has a big ugly plinth that is big and ugly and badly made. I built it out of layers of plywood and it's massive because it kills the rumble from this idler drive motor unit. But it's an eye sore and hacked up because I can't decide on a tonearm........

Electroplate it bruh

I have that one, it's pretty neat!

I use this, "transistor tester" on scamazon

It seems to run pretty cool for what it is, it does have 4 good size fans at the top, the Vizio I had you could fry an egg on that thing

The first new TV I bought was a 32" Vizio Plasma for $500 back in 2008. I sold it to a friend in 2013 for $100, I think a year or two later it wouldn't turn on. Bulgy chinee capacitors on the power supply board. I recapped it for the cost of parts and as far as I know it still works today. Was a...

More than an LED backlit LCD. This one has 25000 hours and still looks uniform

Aaaand after ranting about direct view TVs a 58" Panasonic 1080p plasma followed me home.

Yeah Columbia/Sony