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November 15, 2004
"This project should not be a commercial one. I want to show everyone the great engineering and the beautiful and precise realization of this player. I don't mean my work. I'm thinking of the guys that made this monument. I found their marks on every single part - handmade location signs for any drilling on the suspension parts, for example. It was not a machine that created these parts from a block of aluminum - it was a human being. So I decided not to use new parts from stock. I want to rescue most of the classic material by cleaning, polishing and restoration."
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Above photo 7: shows the original base plate of the turntable. Cleaned, newly coated in matte black with the original 3 securing bolts (welded in place so untouched but cleaned) and their 3 steel spacers (original but polished and clear coated). The outer wooden frame (not really a frame - more design) is just cleaned.
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Above photo 8: two of the floating chassis bearing blocks. Left-side cleaned and polished, right-side original. The hole right-side will carry the high adjustment screw, the screws left-side will fix the bearing to the base plate. The dowel pin, middle-left, will locate the correct position.
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Above photo 9: shows the installation of the bearing into the base-plate. There are 4 of them. This is the right back bearing.
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Above photo 10: One of the 4 suspension elements. If you look closer, you will
find some of the traces of the worker. These parts are just cleaned.
No further work was needed. The right spring is one of the 4 main
springs. The left one is one of the 4 counter springs to balance the
system.
November 16, 2004
Today the first parts of the suspension went back to the base plate. I started rear right. The parts are only cleaned, polished and oiled before reassembly. No further work was needed. These parts are designed to work forever............
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Photos 11,12 and 13 show different views of the right rear suspension assembly.
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Above photo 15: shows the complete front before disassembly with some view to
the suspension.
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