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Jonathan Weiss: "Mike Lavorgna of Six Moons will be doing a writeup shortly, and I am waiting for participants to send in their photos, but some of the highlights for me this year were Win Tinnon's incredible 200 pound plus new idler drive turntable, in slate. Colby Lamb did the machining, and was also in attendance. Tinnon has a patent pending on the idler mechanism, and they built everything but the motor themselves, with Mark Kelly designing and providing the three phase control electronics. OMA did the slate work, Frank Schroeder provided one of his inimitable tonearms (Reference SQ.)"
Win (mosin): "I am also thankful that my turntable was so well-received, and that I had the skilled and caring help of Colby with his machine work, and the sheer genius of Mark who helped me accomplish the task of spinning the platter at perfect speed. Things always turn out better with good support, especially when time is short, and it was in this instance. Making an idler turntable from an idea wasn't easy, but without those two guys my design may have never seen daylight. They both came through under extreme deadline pressures, and they came through with flying colors. Colby broke a finger in the process, but like the trooper he is, the show must go on, and it did!
Slate from OMA went a long way visually, and I assure you that drawing the design for the water jet people, gluing it together and finishing it was my most daunting part of making this first turntable. Working in slate was worth it, though. I am really pleased at how it turned out, and more pleased that others like it, too. The feeling I got when those present at the event offered encouragement to me is hard to describe in words."
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Win/mosin: "Several years ago, I approached Colby about an idler wheel that made no noise. He had an idea that I thought was fantastic, and I commissioned him to make one. Unfortunately, it worked only a couple of weeks mostly due to the materials used. Then, I suggested some changes which resulted in a mechanism that worked very well for that project. Later, he suggested that I patent the design. I did register it with the US Patent Office, but it was only fair that he share the patent. It is our design because together we made it work.
The other stuff was designed solely by me, but Colby had machinist sorts of suggestions all along, and I was grateful for those I used because a design is one thing, but ease of manufacture comes from the one who does the machine work. With a lot of products you buy, this is a sorely missing component. This time is different.
Mark Kelly designed the controller for my application. It does its job, but there is yet a different one by Mark in the works. He is designing it the way I would like it to be. Like almost everyone who undertake such complex tasks, I use others for certain aspects to make my dream a reality, and I have been extremely lucky to know those who work with great skill and commitment. Mark is such a person without a doubt.
This turntable is basically there, but there are always a few changes made when a new concept is realized."
InDaGroove (Colby): "You should all realize that this project is a whole lot more than what you see in one picture. I estimate that more than 250 emails were sent back and forth between us, and I can only imagine how many went between Win and Mark, and Win and Jonathan Weiss. Win provided me with CAD drawings, sketches and pictures of what he wanted. He is not a mechanical engineer, but he could just as well be one, as far as I'm concerned.
In the picture, look at the upper plinth. It is three layers of slate, waterjet cut, with 3 different geometries. These are basically rocks- imagine how smooth they were not when they were quarried. Each surface was lapped by hand to the adjoining surface,and bonded together, and you see no seams around the outside. That had to have been a lot of work to do, and I heard the result, and the bar has been raised."
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Den bliver uden tvivl heftig dyr. Men spændende at de endelig tager mellemhjulsdrift seriøst og slår nogle gode hoveder sammen og laver noget nyt fra grunden og op. Gad godt at høre sådan en. Gad vide hvordan den ville klare sig i forhold til etablerede sværvægtere som f.eks. SME Model 30 og andre?
P.S. Hvis mods læser dette må i gerne flytte denne tråd over i pladespiller-afd.
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