Beiträge von lfceline

    Hello Rolandpower,

    I send you the bigger weight that you need when using SPU gold. The smaller weight i have is 233 grammes. The bigger weight i took from my other 64S arm. I thought i must have another one but i am not sure now!!. Maybe i bought the extra bigger weight when i bought the arm 35 years ago.

    In the information from FR it says you must only use the smaller weight if you cannot balance the arm with the big weight.

    If i remember well having the weight closer to the ax of the arm is better. If the height of the turntable platter is higher than normal than you can use a weight with a larger diameter so that the weight will move closer to the ax.

    With track and trace it shows that your arm is still in my country??

    Greetings, ed

    Hello,

    I got answer from Steve today.

    Hi,

    In answer to where the ebony comes from, my supplier responsibly

    sources it from West Africa.

    The second thing is; The ebony I can source takes 1 year per inch

    thickness to dry out. It needs to be done slowly or the piece will

    crack when worked.



    It comes from Africa sealed in wax. My supplier dries and supplies me

    1" thick blocks for turning armboards. You need a max 80mm x 110mm

    thick block!

    Greetings, Ed

    Hello,

    I exchanged a lot of mails with him before i knew how i wanted my armbase to be.

    I think he is a real craftsman. He knows what he can do and what he cannot do. Because he made so many things he usually can tell you what will be a good solution in your situation. He will get feedback from customers who sometimes have their own ideas that can be mixed with his ideas.

    He told me with ebony it is not usefull to add holes in it to fill them with bleischrott. So i went for just ebony to hold my future groovemaster arm

    greetings, Ed

    Hello Stephan,

    http://fosworld.wixsite.com/ma…io/armboards-pods-plinths

    This is the website from the one person company that can make ebony or metal parts for audio.

    I got the ebony Micro from him because he wanted to show me what he can make. Micro is not my favorite turntable after i heard an old Thorens TD125 which was much better than the BL51 or BL91 from Micro.

    I have been using a Sota sapphire for a long time with a 64S arm. After that i bought a second 64S which was mounted on a Micro rx1500 but i only wanted the arm so i sold the RX1500 very quickly. They look impressive but i dont like the sound.

    I bought the Scheu that you can see in my other posts on this site. Right now i want to start using it after it has been in my attic for a long time!!!

    I always have been a fan of big platters, i mean big diameter!

    I wanna try magnetic levitation feet for my Scheu later. I think my friends in Vietnam use the same principle i should ask them.

    The company in England told me that ebony gives the best sound for armboards. BUT he is selling them. I send him a part of my future groovemaster and i told him to make an ebony arm pod that can hold that part and he made that for me.You can even see it at his website.

    Greetings, Ed

    Hello,

    I like the way you attached the arm to your turntable with alumium ? top plate.

    I have been using the SPU gold for 30 years and even in Vietnam 2 of the 4 audiophiles are using it. One with SME 3012 and the other one with Ortofon arm or even both Ortofon. Both Thorens 124 owners too!

    In the past in France lots of SPU too 95% of them with 3012..

    For me the 3012 is a bit to fragile so first i used the Fidelity research 64 fx. Then a Vietnamese diy shop owner in Paris told me to get the 64S much better for the SPU.

    For the 64fx i asked someone to make an alumium mounting collar that will give a better grip and add some mass. This was a serious improvement.

    For the 64s which is stainless steel i asked a co worker to make a stainless steel collar. It was made on a milling machine because stainless steel is not easy to use.

    For the the groovemaster at first i used a block of alumium and just used several drills ending with a 20.5 mm drill. Used my German Trumpf machine to make a drilling template to get the exact position for the 20.5 mm hole and the 4 holes m4 to attach it to the base.

    At first i wanted to use a piece of between between my alumium arm collar and the turntable BUT then the man in England told me that with ebony he can grip the arm the same as i do with my alumium piece. He told me ebony sounds better than aluminium. ( he is making money with them but somehow i believe him) Remember the big Micro turntables with alumium platters that sounded like a bell?

    I added some pics to clarify.

    Greetings, Ed

    P.s as you can see ebony can be used to create even a copy of the original Micro arm mounting boards. I use the same tecnique to grab the arm. The dimensions are not the critical ( 0.1 mm is close enough) and the arm will grabbed over a much larger surface which is good i guess. Normally it is a single screw.IMG_20180527_104638486_crop_585x885.jpg

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    Hello,

    EXCUSE me for writing in English

    A few weeks ago i did ask a question here about my Scheu laufwerk. I will ask a similar question here.

    Soon i will buy the groovemaster arm. I already bought an ebony armbase in england.

    I need something to lift up the lagerbuchse. I have a thick platter but my base is higher because i want some space under the platter to experiment with different feet like those from seismic or the ones using magnetic levitation.

    The Scheu i have use an aluminium scheibe and a black conic ( alu?) scheibe to attach the lagerbuchse to the acrylic '' zarge ''

    I need some extra height about 40 mm. Of course can make an alumium scheibe at work to make it higher. BUT i have extra space so i can make the part closest to the zarge 110 mm diameter and make it 60 mm diameter where it is connect to the black conic scheibe. My idea is that making it from one piece it will be better. I can also decide to replace the black scheibe and make it all together from one piece.

    I can ask the company in England if they can make it in one piece in ebony or i can make something from metal at work. We do have a drehmaschine but we dont have a big piece of aluminium to make a 110 mm cilinder. I think i can ask my coworker to make a 60 mm cilinder from aluminium and make a reservoir 110 mm durchschnit and fill it with leadshot similar to the Scheu zarge.

    Please share some ideas in German or in english up to You.

    Greetings, Ed

    P.s my idea to use the ebony armbase is to make a very solid grip on the arm like i did with my Fidelity research 64S but then i made it in rostfrei stahl which you can see in one of the attachment. By the way i am using SPU gold too.steungedeelte lager Scheu.jpg

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    Hello,

    I knew there was bleischrot but this one had a very small diameter. The one with my Sota sapphire were much bigger. Die zylindrisher ring was attached to the upper part of the basisplatte. Because the achse was already attached when i got it i didnt put it upside down when turning the 8 mm bolt.

    After i know how to make the extra height ( i also asked the maker of my groovemaster tonarm how to do it according to him. It is not so easy to make an alumium scheibe 60 mm round and 40 mm high but i wanna make something that will dampen some more.

    I can ask the man in England who made the ebony armbasis in my first message to make an ebony circle. He made some metal armbasis filled with lead that can be put next to your plattenspieler because they have a high weight. But if someting from ebony is installed onto the plattenspieler like my armbasis just leave it made from wood. Drilling holes into it and adding bleischrot will not make it better!

    Tomorrow i will think about how to get the bleischrot into a kind of container. Maybe an old vacuumcleaner?

    Greetings, Ed

    p.s now i will wait for ideas about how to change the height...... In the attachment you can see my soon to buy armGrooveMaster-22_thumb1.jpg

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    Hello,

    Today did drill the 4 holes in the Scheu '' basisplatte '' with the help of a '' bohrschablone '' which i made at work with my German Trumpf tc500 cnc machine. Just a few holes needed and made two of them maintained at some distance from each other to make the drill go inside at a straight angle because i only have handheld drilling machines at home.

    Because the ebony armbasis i ordered in England is high i need to get the platter of the Scheu at a higher level too. When i got my Scheu there was an extra '' circle '' of alumium under the '' olwanne ''. But it isnt high enough for me.

    I think i should use the original '' olwanne '' but replace the alumium scheibe with something higher. Because there is a big cavity under the teller i can make a scheibe with a diameter about 110 mm and about 40 mm high. In the center there will be a 60 mm scheibe which will support the olwanne part.

    Between the 60 and the 110 mm there is a part i can fill with bleischrot?

    There is only the 8 mm long bolt that comes from under the console right to the achse so the 110 mm part will not move but maybe i should use should dubbelseitiges klebeband to allow vibrations to go from one piece into another?

    please share all your ideas.

    greetings, Ed

    Hello,

    Could be also nice to make a loudspeaker like the Elipson planet L or one like the original Elipson from the sixties that were much bigger than the L type.

    Of course also nice for most turntables if you have the space.because if you have to open them it will go up a lot. OR order order with a kind of door...

    Greeetings, eduard761708.jpg

    ebony armbase.jpgI am a new member from Holland. I can read german ok but cannot write it.

    Long time ago i bought a special Scheu plattenspieler in Wuppertal and now i want to assemble it.

    The original plan was to use a fidelity research 64s tonarm with spu gold. I wanted a bigger teller but i didnt have the 66S so i asked Thomas to make a special teller.

    Now i decided to change the arm into a groovemaster 12 inch arm. With the 64S i used a special rostfrei stahl '' clamp '' to mount the arm much better than the original one. Someone told me to use ebony holz and no metal so i asked a company in England to make it for me.

    Maybe it is a little bit to high so i need move up the part that holds the lagerbuchse.

    I know there is a 8 mm schraube to attach it to the zarge. Can i just hold the alumium ring that is close to the zarge and unwind the m8? After that that i can add an extra '' ring'' made from alumium ( i work in a metal company) or ebony and use a longer m8.

    I saw somewhere on this site someone used a messing ring on his wooden zarge but i wanna keep using the original acrylic zarge. I still have the 100 or 110 mm black circle you can see in the original Scheu photo. I can also a small circle same diameter as the alumium one and add a big circle same seize as the one below the kettingkasten and fill that with bleikugeln.

    I also need to replace the original spikes because my phonostage will be partly positioned under the Scheu. I am thinking about seismic isolation pods ,magnetic levitation feet or sorbothane halbe kugeln ( 50mmm). My turntable is in a rack mounted in four corners so it is sturdy construction. Can carry my weight 86 kilo easily!.

    In the past me and my friends did several test with high mass turntables and most of the time an old Thorends TD125 with a heavier zarge would be much better so. My Scheu will be about 20 25 kilo but i think it will benefit from some kind of isolation other than just mass.

    Please share your ideas in German language.

    Greetings, Ed



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