This project was the one of those which we like the most to do; no particular requests, no scheduled deliveries, so we can fully concentrate on recycling and re-use of parts and spare materials lying around for a long time and to work in spare time only.
Realization was running at a slow pace, totally relaxed, and took much longer than usual, but the end results are great, much better than we expected at the beginning.

 

The Main plinth is made of the two circle shaped Baltic Birch plywood (left overs from some loudspeakers building project) glued together. Vibrations coming from the surrounding environment are prevented from entering the main plinth by the employment of the isolation cones-feet, which are in contact with the main plinth only over the rubber-cork washers of different diameter, a kind of a "soft" type coupling.
Cones are leftovers from our Dostoyevsky model, made of solid aluminum and have small silicone pucks on the bottom providing further isolation from the shelf/rack/stand on which the turntable is rest on.
Cones are height adjustable allowing easy leveling of the turntable.

Sub-plinth is made of smaller two circle shaped Baltic Birch plywood boards (again left overs from some loudspeakers building project) and an old egg-shaped IKEA kitchen cutting board, which are all glued together and drilled and cut in order to provide space for the motor and the main bearing.
Sub-plinth and main plinth are 3-point coupled over differently sized rubber-cork washers, and a 5mm thick rubber-cork pad is inserted in between the main and sub plinth for further vibration damping.

Glass platter, main bearing with the sub-platter and motor comes from a few different old Rega Planar2 and Planar3 turntables, left overs from different repair/recycling/upgrading projects we have done over the last few years.
Motor itself is coupled to the sub-plinth in a "typical loose" Rega way, but with the additional 2mm thick Acrylic made plate whose flexibility mimics Rega's top veneer plate in Planar models; Acrylic plate is coupled to the sub-plinth over the rubber-cork washers, for further isolation against motor born vibrations.

 

The tone-arm is an exception in this project, being intentionally bought new for a customer who wanted to purchase our Satie DCX turntable model with some good quality basic tonearm, but at the end he changed his mind for the more advanced tonearm. Thus this Moth TA2 tonearm which is actually an OEM Rega RB220 tone-arm has stayed unused for a year or a so.
Having a good experience with upgrading Rega tone-arms (and OEM Rega too) with better interconnect cable, we upgraded it with the Cordial cable along with the quality RCA connectors and dedicated ground wire.

 

After initial listening tests with the Ortofon 2M Silver MM cartridge mounted, we were more than satisfied with the sound of this new recycled turntable model, concluding that sound wise it can compete with any commercially available turntable in the price range of EUR500-1500.

We are very glad that our good friend Artist IG @deki_ink was again in charge for the visual appearance, providing his expertise and support on painting duties for this project; He applied air-brush and different spray and hand painting techniques.