Micro Seiki DQX-500 Turntable resto-mod

[laatsch55]

I have a set i got off my Dad. Still use em to this day, excellent files...German in origin...

 

[NeverSatisfied]

When I am gone those files will probably be melted down to make cell phones, lol.

 

[laatsch55]

Not if ya raise your son right...

 

[NeverSatisfied]

I decided to leave the platter with only one row of jewels and today I sprayed the first coat of clear. I will let it dry for several days and then wet sand it and add another coat.

 

[NeverSatisfied]

Not if ya raise your son right...

Children were not in the cards for me Lee.

 

[laatsch55]

Ohhhh.....sorry man...

 

[NeverSatisfied]

Spence, your workspace is way too anal for us folks. Mess it up a little for your next picture please

Sorry Joe, it does get messy, I promise……just can’t stand it to stay that way.

 

[NeverSatisfied]

Ohhhh.....sorry man...

No worries bud, hell I am only here because my mother told the old man, “we are either having a kid or I am out of here”. Lucky for me dad really loved mom.

 

[laatsch55]

LOL!! Good for Mom...were you an only child?

 

[NeverSatisfied]

LOL!! Good for Mom...were you an only child?

Oh yeah, the old man could barely handle me, any more would have pushed him over the edge.

 

[NeverSatisfied]

Got some time to work on the Micro but not before loosing 3 hours going down the “record player feet” rabbit hole. The original feet for this TT were destroyed but I was able to find some used feet from a different model that look to be the same. However Micro decided that their table did not need any leveling, so the original feet were just screwed to the plinth. This did not sit well with me so I decided to modify their design. After spending hours reading various opinions and some science about coupling, decoupling, “you have to do it this way”, “ you should never do it that way”, blah,blah, I decided to do my own redneck engineering.
I kept the Micro feet with their springs and then made them adjustable. The original feet are the black doughnuts, everything else I added from junk I had laying around.
I threaded the plinth, added aluminum spacers, rubber spacers and the beauty rings.
I need to wet sand and respray the platter again, I got a little heavy on the second coat of clear and got some runs…..aargh.
The boss has officially named this table the Millennium Falcon.

 

[laatsch55]

Love it!! Overengineered and just right!!!!!!!!!!

 

[NeverSatisfied]

Love it!! Overengineered and just right!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks, I have know idea if it will work properly, it should but the proof won’t come until the needle drop.

 

[laatsch55]

Amen Spence...

 

[J!m]

Looks like you’re set now but I was going to suggest the TangSpinner feet.

Plastic bit is screwed to the base and then the aluminum cone threads onto that for height adjustment.

And now, I want one, which I will cover with model parts to make it look more like the millennium falcon. Maybe a dust cover with an imperial star destroyer on it that hovers overhead…

 

[NeverSatisfied]

Looks like you’re set now but I was going to suggest the TangSpinner feet.

Plastic bit is screwed to the base and then the aluminum cone threads onto that for height adjustment.

And now, I want one, which I will cover with model parts to make it look more like the millennium falcon. Maybe a dust cover with an imperial star destroyer on it that hovers overhead…

Dang…had not seen those, simple and effective. Would have been a lot less work too. Might buy a set and compare them against my RN engineering since they are relatively cheep.
Thanks for the link.
The second arm board is going to really challenge my RNE, due to the double wall casting of the plinth, I can’t just bolt a wing on the side. I have a couple ideas and plan to build some prototypes out of wood or plastic, then if I get a workable solution I can see if the local machine shop will fab it out of aluminum.

 

[borchee]

...millennium falcon...imperial star destroyer...that hovers overhead…

You surely must have one of these:

BTW, I love how anal @NeverSatisfied and you are about details. Excellent work...from both of you!

 

[J!m]

Yes, I've seen those (but don't own any)

You may want to consider sticking with wood, or a wood/aluminum sandwich for the armboard, depending on how far out in the wind it ends up being. Aluminum rings like a bell, and that may not work out for you in that application. Maybe a carbon sheet/aluminum sandwich but machining carbon sheet is an absolute NIGHTMARE. But I think you are going to want some sort of constrained layer construction for that.

 

[NeverSatisfied]

You surely must have one of these:

BTW, I love how anal @NeverSatisfied and you are about details. Excellent work...from both of you!

Never knew they existed, pretty cool.
Thanks for the compliments, never understood where the term anal got associated with being detail oriented but somehow it is, at least I am in good company, LOL

 

[NeverSatisfied]

Yes, I've seen those (but don't own any)

You may want to consider sticking with wood, or a wood/aluminum sandwich for the armboard, depending on how far out in the wind it ends up being. Aluminum rings like a bell, and that may not work out for you in that application. Maybe a carbon sheet/aluminum sandwich but machining carbon sheet is an absolute NIGHTMARE. But I think you are going to want some sort of constrained layer construction for that.

True but the whole thing is made out of aluminum so there’s that. I guess I was just thinking it would look more finished in metal than painted wood. I like the sandwich idea, will definitely think about that.