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Re: Music on vinyl
Here's my first-pass effort:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/fc8577069dbfce0d3e1c8c8d/w/0e2d541078c1b5ab1d6a505b/e/42f60e27cac2102fd9ae73c0
The turntable mounts to the slab with 4x 8mm bolts. The armboard mount is 5" x 8" and recessed 1" to allow for a big plank of whatever I want to be installed. Uses #10 fasteners to mount the armboard and feet. The only thing I think it's missing is maybe a couple of inserts on the bottom to retain P-clamps for the power cord and signal cord.
I'm thinking Vibrapod isolator pucks for the feet. The nice thing about the Vibrapods is they make them in varying stiffness ranges so that I can balance the center of isolation near the assembly center of mass. This would start from a standard 18"x24"x3" slab and is showing ~83 lb all-up weight right now.
Your feedback is welcome!
drasnor
Re: Icrontic voice chat switching to Discord
The Mitey Worriers tried Discord again last night for our Wednesday gaming, and the issue we were having seems to be fixed. GOODBYE SKYPE!
CB
Re: Music on vinyl
I think the local granite shop can fix me up; they make industrial and laboratory equipment isolation slabs and I think they can build to spec for about $300 or so ($200 for a NIST B-grade slab and $100 or so for jetting and drilling). I might be able to negotiate a discount for not needing traceability but I need to study up on tonearm mounting though.
drasnor
Re: Team Conquest
I'm going to forgo gaming for the time it takes to pass Macrumors.
[A]rab_Folders.[Adslgate.com] is the team that @primesuspect had mentioned about to overtake us when he started the "Return to folding" thread. They are my real goal. It's nice seeing a bunch of green in the conquest and threats list now! 
Sonorous
Re: Colgere slays 10 million
@QCH said:
Man... where did you come from? I looked in my rearview mirror and nothing back there... Then there you were there and now you are past me. GREAT JOB!
Hadn't folded since 2009 (had about 100,000 points when I stopped). Got a new rig together a few months back and picked up a RX480 8GB card as part of it. Decided to reinstall Folding@Home to see what the card would do. That's pretty much it... 
Colgere
Re: Music on vinyl
In one of those "pearls before swine" sorts of scenarios, I have a surplus radio station Technics SP10 Mk2, tone arm of some sort, and Crown IC-150 preamp. Big thing that's missing is a plinth and a full overhaul. Getting a plinth has not been real fun; the only people I've found that make one are Oswalds Mill and theirs is hellaciously expensive. I've been thinking about getting the local granite shop to waterjet a slab trying to find someone that works with slate.
drasnor
Re: Music on vinyl
I got the Scout 1.1 and was bad as I ordered a ZYX R-50 Bloom 2 MC to be set up on it upon arrival. Even i am saying ouch on this one. But I feel it will be worth it. All though I spent more than I wanted, this combination still comes in at less than the Classic I really wanted. And it will no doubt be a jump higher than what I have been listening to. Now to find out if my aging ears can tell the difference.
Mt_Goat
Raid Summary 11/21/2016 2/3 N ToV and 7/7 H EmN
Congratulations Icrontic! We are now 7/7 Heroic Emerald Nightmare and officially "ahead of the curve"
We started the weekend off with a shaking-off-the-dust kill of Odyn after a few attempts and then 2-shot the tricky Guarm fight. From there we worked on Helya, got reliably to phase 2 and then ran into time constraints and had to call it a night.
Our progression team went back to work on Xavius and after a handful of attempts finally got him down, for our first heroic AOTC of this expansion 
We decided to spend the last 30 minutes of our raid night getting a bit more practice on Helya in ToV and once again got her to phase 2 reliably which means a kill is on the horizon.
Fantastic work!
