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Anyone try polishing their Technics platter dots?
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| Endo |
I had a great idea this morning playing around with my technics platter... I wonder if anyone has polished their dots on the side of the platter? I've never polished stainless steel before but I've read numerous different techniques on how to (using higher grit sandpaper and moving down to lower grit). I'd like to try this out, but then again I don't want to screw up my platter.
Anything done anything like this before? |
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| Dirk W. |
| Hmmm, I always had the same plan, but to do that with a DeLorean. I want to buy an old DeLorean, completely polish it and blind everyone on the highway. So tight. |
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| subtledreamer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Endo
I had a great idea this morning playing around with my technics platter... I wonder if anyone has polished their dots on the side of the platter? I've never polished stainless steel before but I've read numerous different techniques on how to (using higher grit sandpaper and moving down to lower grit). I'd like to try this out, but then again I don't want to screw up my platter.
Anything done anything like this before? |
i've thought about it too with my mk2... but i rather get an LED replacement (BLUE!) so that i can SEE the dots more clearly (because the red led on my mk2 is so damn weak) |
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| CosmoKid |
| quote: | Originally posted by subtledreamer
i've thought about it too with my mk2... but i rather get an LED replacement (BLUE!) so that i can SEE the dots more clearly (because the red led on my mk2 is so damn weak) |
the after market blue led's have been known to short the electrical and void the warranty |
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| Liam |
| quote: | Originally posted by CosmoKid
the after market blue led's have been known to short the electrical and void the warranty |
Is this very common, because I was contemplating installing the blue led kits on my mk5s? |
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| subtledreamer |
| quote: | Originally posted by CosmoKid
the after market blue led's have been known to short the electrical and void the warranty |
oh man, really?
do you have a thread/article from anywhere saying so? no that i dont trust you... i just wanna see why and how. :) |
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| Wildfir3 |
| although i don't have techs, i finish mine with a swiffer thingy. Works great... surprising how much dirt comes off! |
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| Tiger777 |
| No, blue leds have exactly the same duration of life than any other leds... My blue leds have been working for a year now (2hrs/day) and they're still 100% working :). I'd go for blue leds in my technics too, it looks soo cool :tongue3 |
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| subtledreamer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tiger777
No, blue leds have exactly the same duration of life than any other leds... My blue leds have been working for a year now (2hrs/day) and they're still 100% working :). I'd go for blue leds in my technics too, it looks soo cool :tongue3 |
phew! :)
where did you get your leds? did you just buy a few from a local electronics store like radio shack or... you bought one of those led packs geared for modding the tech's (which im sure cost more)? |
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| Tiger777 |
I've bought them at my local electronics shop and built them in my TT's (that aren't SL1200's). With the others I've enlighted the wooden box under my mixer(2 X 3 leds of 4500mCd in the Turntables and 10 X 4500mCd leds in the box). That way my mixer's buttons are visible when i'm in the dark.
If I were you, I'd buy those build-in kits, 'cuz you need to be pretty handy with the connections and the small parts. You can easely damage parts with your iron.
Always be sure that you have MAX 3V on your leds and a max of 0.025 mA current running though your leds. If you go to higher voltages, you'll burn the LED through. This is standard current for all leds, so in fact, there shouldn't be a problem replacing the red leds in your TT with blue ones.
But, blue LEDs are pretty expensive. For the pop up light, I'd use 1 blue led of 10000mCd and for the leds in the strobo I've used 4500mCd leds. |
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| dukes |
| quote: | Originally posted by subtledreamer
phew! :)
where did you get your leds? did you just buy a few from a local electronics store like radio shack or... you bought one of those led packs geared for modding the tech's (which im sure cost more)? |
i wouldnt get the ones "specaly" for techs coz its a ing rip off! LED's are dirt cheap and as long as you get decent ones they will be identical to the ones that are aparently specaly for. that said if you dont have a clue about electronics then by all means get the "special" ones.
i recon the people who have had problems with shorting out their decks probly didnt know what they were doing. |
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| Prodigy Child |
| I been meaning to crack open the old techs and putting blues in, but I'm to lazy, they have leds now that change colour aswell, got a vid of one and it cycles through about 10 colours, but dunno if that would look cheesey, but would be cool to see. |
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