I jJust finished my latest restoration. This is a Thorens TD 125 manufactured in the mid 70s. I've converted it to a long base and added a 12 inch tonearm.
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Jul 15, 2016 - 8:03am
swell_sailor wrote:
I jJust finished my latest restoration. This is a Thorens TD 125 manufactured in the mid 70s. I've converted it to a long base and added a 12 inch tonearm.
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Looks great!. A friend of mine still has the one I had that I sold to him years ago with a Rabco SL8E on it that he has modified,
Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA Gender:
Posted:
Jul 15, 2016 - 8:02am
swell_sailor wrote:
Cool! How's this one coming Dave?
Its in even more pieces now. I still haven't tried buffing out the plexi yet. The motor cover and arm board are made of plexi with paper thin aluminum contact cemented to them. The plexi isn't visible when the pieces are installed. I have a friend with a CNC machine and he is going to remake those parts in 1/4" solid aluminum and then polish them. If I can get the plexi looking nice and all the remaining metal buffed out it should look very acceptable. I also have to get some silicon fluid to fill the fluid damper tray the platter "floats" in. Lots of foam rubber was used and its all rotted. The 3 adjustable feet have metal springs in them that had foam rubber pucks glued to them. I am going to use sorbothane pucks instead. Over all its not as bad as I thought it would be considering its been underwater and then tossed around in my various junk rooms for 25 years.
I jJust finished my latest restoration. This is a Thorens TD 125 manufactured in the mid 70s. I've converted it to a long base and added a 12 inch tonearm.
This is a J.A. Michell Hydraulic Reference Turntable I bought new in the '70's. Its the same model as used in "A Clockwork Orange". Yep, saw the movie and had to have one. It got ruined when I stored it in the cellar of a rental house and the cellar flooded during hurricane Isabel. I didn't have the heart to toss it so I've been keeping it all this time and finally decided it needs to be restored. I just got done taking it mostly apart. The plinth is 3/4" plywood with 1/8" black plexi glued to it so I am testing ways of getting its shine back. Will do the same with all the metal parts. Surprisingly the motor survived being submerged and just needed to be taken apart and cleaned and lubed. I sold the original arm off it years ago and will try and get one off ebay most likely or maybe set it up for another arm. The dusty cover is made of clear 1/4" plexi flat pieces glued together and its all fogged so unless it buffs out I will have to have a new one made up.Should be a fun project.
Here is what they are supposed to look like (Someone else's unit):
They're children. Their idealism is a child's view of the world. They want to crawl back in their mother's womb so they won't have to become an adult and face a world which is filled with light and shadow, with complexity and contradiction. They can't be right in this kind of world. It is not good to put a curse on oneself and one's family. And though you may argue that the whole human race is the real family, this is also an illusion — that is, there is a paradox in this. The abstract family only works in the abstract world. The concrete family is the only family that works in the concrete world. The abstract world will not give you a piece of bread when you are sta
Tntmsrmrntrtngthnthtjnk're children. Their idealism is a child's view of the world. They want to crawl back in their mother's womb so they won't have to become an adult and face a world which is filled with light and shadow, with complexity and contradiction. They can't be right in this kind of world. It is not good to put a curse on oneself and one's family. And though you may argue that the whole human race is the real family, this is also an illusion — that is, there is a paradox in this. The abstract family only works in the abstract world. The concrete family is th only family that works in the concrete world. The abstract world will not give you a piece of bread when you are starving
They're children. Their idealism is a child's view of the world. They want to crawl back in their mother's womb so they won't have to become an adult and face a world which is filled with light and shadow, with complexity and contradiction. They can't be right in this kind of world. It is not good to put a curse on oneself and one's family. And though you may argue that the whole human race is the real family, this is also an illusion — that is, there is a paradox in this. The abstract family only works in the abstract world. The concrete family is the only family that works in the concrete world. The abstract world will not give you a piece of bread when you are starving.
Gorgeous, and here are its' "vital stats" to go along with the sexy photo:
THORENS belt drive
three phase motor with clutch pulley
electronic motor regulation
three speeds: 33 -1/3, 45 and 78 rpm
pitch control ± 6%
illuminated stroboscope at the outer turntable rim
heavy basic chassis and heavy floating chassis, both aluminum castings. The specially calculated chambers in the floating chassis are filled with grained iron for optimum damping
vibration and shock-proof 4-point suspension with gold-plated housings. Each suspension point is individually adjustable
bubble level
the resonance of the floating chassis can be adjusted (1-5 Hz) for exact matching with the tone arm and cartridge combination
specially damped turntable platter of 6.6 kg weight and 30.3 cm diameter
new and expensive main bearing construction for the world's best rumble figure. The high precision ground steel shaft rotates in oil bathed hard material bearings
record stabilizer, gold-plated
3-tone arm platforms of various sizes
2 electric motor lifts (optional)
gold-plated control boards, mounted on the main chassis
large dust cover
Wow and flutter according to DIN 45507: < 0.02% rumble un-weighted, measured with Rumpelmesskoppler* according to DIN A, better than 82 dB
Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA Gender:
Posted:
Apr 21, 2016 - 9:56am
This is a J.A. Michell Hydraulic Reference Turntable I bought new in the '70's. Its the same model as used in "A Clockwork Orange". Yep, saw the movie and had to have one. It got ruined when I stored it in the cellar of a rental house and the cellar flooded during hurricane Isabel. I didn't have the heart to toss it so I've been keeping it all this time and finally decided it needs to be restored. I just got done taking it mostly apart. The plinth is 3/4" plywood with 1/8" black plexi glued to it so I am testing ways of getting its shine back. Will do the same with all the metal parts. Surprisingly the motor survived being submerged and just needed to be taken apart and cleaned and lubed. I sold the original arm off it years ago and will try and get one off ebay most likely or maybe set it up for another arm. The dusty cover is made of clear 1/4" plexi flat pieces glued together and its all fogged so unless it buffs out I will have to have a new one made up.Should be a fun project.
Here is what they are supposed to look like (Someone else's unit):
