Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II

Hi Peter,

What a wonderful and ambitious project! This should slay all competition once its set up in your system – provided, of course that you have proper structural support (i.e. jacks) to brace up your house. Certainly looks heavy! Exactly what are these surge tanks? Somehow I have visions of supply and drain plumbing being hooked up to this thing in some kind of massive dampening hydraulic Lenco project.

And speaking of dampening, you’ve done a very admirable job throughout – much better than my patchwork attempts. One thing I did notice was that you still have the original idler tension spring hooked up. Right from the get go, Jean fingered this spring as a potential route of resonant noise transmission and substituted an elastic infused fabric item (for sewing into waist hems) that can be found in most sewing supply sections/stores.

Thanks for sharing your work with us, Peter, and keep us posted on updates.

As for all my projects: (4) idler redesigns/plinth builds; hardwood lens horn design & fabrication; (4) Reel to Reel deck resurrections – I’ve decided to put them all on a short hiatus and address the dirty state of my growing LP collection. I’ve become tired of taking nice records that I’ve bought for .50 to 1.00 dollar down to my local audio store and paying $1.50 to get them cleaned on their VPI machine.

So I’m building an ARC machine using the previously trailblazed standards for this DIY project: Ice Cream Maker motor; Guts of a Dust Devil 3 hp (peak) Vacuum; 1984 VW Windshield Washer Pump w/120VAC to 12VDC Transformer. I’m relying heavily on Jimmy Neutron’s design – but plan to deviate on the critical double wand record contact area. Whether playing or cleaning vinyl, it always seems to come down to adjustable VTA.

Some posts ago I have spoken about a custom made lasercut topplate I am designing. It has now reached its final stage.
You can read all about it here:

http://www.lenco-lovers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=158&start=80&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

I am now going to get a quote to see what the cost will be. I suspect that a major part of the price will be in programming the machine, so if we can spread the programming cost over as many plates as possible this just might be an affordable way to the Ultimate Lenco.

I have posted a survey here:

http://www.lenco-lovers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=231

to see how large the production run might be. Please add your name there if you are interested.
Thanks,
Peter

Peter,
Can you refresh our memories and provide details as to what it is you are doing?
Thanks

Oregon,
What I propose to do is make a metal topplate that replaces the Lenco topplate. For more details please follow the links in the post above. Most info is in the first posts of the first link.
Peter

Hi Peter W, your ambitious beastie is looking to be Gorgeous in that wonderful veneer!! I have to say, that having lived with a one-armed Lenco for so long, and now having just finished my own two-armed Lenco, it feels so good to be home again. A while back I was running two small Lencos, and now I have one Giant Lenco with two tonearms. Just doesn't feel right without at least two tonearms hooked up and ready to go at the flip of a switch! Ahhhh NOW I am content!! I have one MM, my Decca, connected directly to my ARC SP-8 preamp phono stage, and the RS Labs is sporting my Denon DL-103"E" which is hooked up to my Pioneer C-90, used as a phono stage only via the tape outs, and then back into the SP-8 1st auxiliary stage. FLIP its the Decca; FLIP it's the Denon :-)! I may replace the Decca with my long-missed Ortofon M15E Super, just to hear what it can do. The Decca sounding in many ways quite close to the Denon, I want more "distance"/difference between the two.

Up here various Lencos continue to destroy the belt-drive opposition, I soon head south, Lenco on Wheels, to make the point effectively in a bigger city! As I've written before and will likely write again, and is NOT hyperbole: it is impossible to exaggerate the abilities of the Lenco, as it literally has not yet met even close to its match. Its upper limits lie way waaayyyy WAY up there, and I will continue to challenge all comers in actual demonstrations and showdowns, until I finally hit a wall: the record of actual empirical and reported comparisons will show, not certain noisome gadflies, what its true abilities - and by extension the idler-wheel principle it is an ambassador for - are. Keep your eyes peeled for news!! In fact, as I've written often, one reason I LOVE the Lenco so much is that it allows me to indulge in outrageous statements and streams of Purple Prose without actually exaggerating. It sounds like hyperbole, but how can one "hyperbolize" what has not yet met its match and so measured?!? Those who don't want to believe it - even after close on three years of non-stop reports and conversions (i.e. the hard and accumulating evidence) - are missing out on one of the few things which truly live up to the Hype (which is only hype if it isn't true, and since it's true, it isn't hype :-)!). This, of course, infuriates those noisome gadflies no end, gnashing their little mandibles, to my great entertainment. The Lenco Train and the Idler Train it is part of is still gaining steam, ain't life a Bitch ;-).

Hey Mario, sounds like quite the project, I wish you would have told me you knew Jimmy Newtron before this, I want an introduction ;-). Excellent work ReindersPeter, I look forward to the Giant 3-armed version!! I saw the cost of shipping, send mine by bottle, make it a big one.

In a strange series of synergies, my ARC SP-8 beat the crap out of my Pioneer in terms of excitement and PRaT before, then I introduced the RS Labs. In hooking it up to my system the increase in detail, imaging, transparency, in fact everything, was astounding, even over the SME V. But. There's alwats a "but". The PRaT was missing, even though the RS Labs was hooked up to the same head-amp-to-ARC phono stage the SME/Denon had been hooked up to before which raised up the Kundalini Effect. Then, in deciding to hook up both tonearms on my Lenco at once, I hooked up the RS/Denon to the Pioneer, and suddenly there was the PRaT again!! The no-PRaT-RS + the no-PRaT-Pioneer added up to excellent PRaT. Go figure. I guess two negatives make a positive. Beware the Synergy Factor. Back to the Cave!!