It was going great! I was confidently soldering socket after socket onto the lazy Susan, using a temporary pin to align them with the fixed tube. It was going so well, in fact, that I thought I might get on to soldering up the electrical connections tonight. Well, not so fast. When I had soldered […]

Read More Another turntable alignment mystery

As I was congratulating myself on a job well done the other night, I had a terrible thought: what if the lock sockets don’t clear the drive wheel as they’re rotating around the far side of the turntable? I quickly got out a green Fineliner and propped it into a corner of the square hole […]

Read More Turntable locks do-over

To make the sockets and guide that enable the alignment pin to lock the turntable in each of the six positions, I fashioned a crude little mitre box from a piece of maple. Starting with a sacrifice socket, I figured out the correct length and angle, and cut that angle into the block of maple. […]

Read More Pretty precise parts to lock turntable