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lang=EN-GB>The turntable arrived
in a horrible condition. The engine is missing, the tone arm has been
brutally ripped off and the on/off switch is broken too.
lang=EN-GB>A real pity but at least unexpensive ;
lang=EN-GB>) |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">The turntable plattern in its former condition:
the painting was scratched off on wide areas and looked ridiculos
anyway.
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">There had to be something done!. |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Removing the old paint with a wire brush and
an electric drill. |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">This looks way better now  |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Meanwhile i got the the engine unit to work
perfectly. I also removed the broken tone arm to have space for a
new one, I expected to arrive soon. |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">A cleaned and repaired tone arm base. |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">The small hole has been drilled to mount a
reverse function switch. It was noobishly added to the turntable.
This "extra feature" caused malfunction of the device while in a club
perfomance!  |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Everything is ready to give the plattern a
new glance! |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Uhhhhm... Ugly! |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Adding new color |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">While the paint is drying the new task is to
"remove" the hole |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Mixing up the putty mass... |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">fill up and close the hole.... |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">abrase ... |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">polish... |
lang=EN-GB>Finished! This looks
quite better.
lang=EN-GB>You can see the white painted plattern already which had to dry
properly before i could proceed working on it. |
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lang=EN-GB>Started working!
lang=EN-GB>Wet sanding off....kinda disgusting work! |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Succeeding in renewing the plattern's look! |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Wolla! A "disguting car wreck became a mercedes
benz!" (Xzibit) |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">This is already something! |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Catch a last look at the ripped off tone arm
unit! |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">The new on/off switch has arrived! |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">The 33/45rpm knobs have already been equipped
with the new LEDs. |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Yeah dude, that's the way it gotta look! |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">You may slightly guess what's it gonna be at
the end |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">At night... |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">still at night baby... |
lang=EN-GB>Next task: the magic
sub-plattern illumination!
lang=EN-GB>Drawing marks professionaly with an edding, a ruler and the remaining
pieces of a geometry triangle  ) - however - it worked great! |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Setting the LED's |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Ready for wiring |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Wired |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Somehow the effect was'nt as fresh as expected.
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">So it had to be enhanced later |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">And God said: "Let there be light!"
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">And there was light! |
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...looki
looki.... |
... |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">This is a new important device, i bought for
a good price (48 euros) at eBay. It's a complete 1210 chassis,
including full functionally electronics. |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">In order to improve the look of the sub-plattern
illumination i made it completely new. This time i placed 36(!) instead
of 16 LEDs under the turntable plattern. Dude, this is gonna rock
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Unfortunately the transformer of the new technics
series could'nt get along with so many LEDs. Though all LEDs
"only" need 2.4 Watts it is 2.4 Watts too much for the transformer.
The LEDs began flickering as the TT started, To solve the problem,
i replaced the newer trafo with the trafo of a 1.st series technics. |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Transformer of the newer technics model. |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">It works! And looks way better than before! |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Yeah! |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Engraved by an engravor |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">My little boy got to have a name when he's
finished |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Taking the cutting wheel and here we go... |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">What a poor turntable  ... |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Roughly cut out |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Conditioning the egdes |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Looks quite good, does'nt it? |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">The two "patients" |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">The new tone arms finally arrived! |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Yet the tone arm has'nt been fixed on its base. |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Resoldered the cables and contacts. The previous
soldering contacs were not of enough quality. |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Mounted tone arm and plus the perfect wiring. |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Finished, but i expect the missing tone arm
stand to arrive soon... |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Slowly it becomes a turntable again! |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Update: 18.02.05 |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">This chassis has been recently painted at a
paint shop for cars. |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">... |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">.... |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Old vs. New |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Complete electronics including the tone arm. |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">The first parts are being installed... |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">It's working ... HOORRAAAAYY !!  |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">The illuminated sign is still missing... |
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.... |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">fitting in... |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Installing the illumination... |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">...wiring |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">*click* |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">comparing with the LEDs switched off... |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">We get closer to the end... |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">The chassis without the insides |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">had to be modified because the sign stuff did'nt
fit into it. |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Cutting off a bit... |
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Fits! |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">chic |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Update: 30.03.05: |
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">Better pictures coming soon! |
lang=EN-GB>A few impressions.
It's not finished yet because
lang=EN-GB>the following has to be done:
lang=EN-GB>- ON/OFF knob has scratches, so its gonna be replaced
lang=EN-GB>- tone arm will be replaced with a golden one and the base might
get painted in the color of the plattern.
lang=EN-GB>- cinch cables will be replaced with some highend Sommer Onyx
2025 cables, The old ones were in too bad condition.
lang=EN-GB>Not worthy a pimp turntable! |
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; ">to be continued ... www.kaype.net |
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Mine too.
