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Modulating Madness
This may be a silly thread but I successfully made my own turntable belt.
I own a Garrard GT35 TT and its original belt was getting a tad loose so the spin-up time took longer than usual as it was slipping bad (even after a boiling water treatment).
Just for fun I looked around the house for some rubber that is about the same thickness with as little stretchiness.
Well out in my shed I had an old junk bicycle tire with a blown inner-tube. Took it apart and the rubber lining that is under the inner-tube so that it doesn't rub against the metal and pop is almost identical thickness to my TT belt. The rubber itself even felt the same and had the same stretchiness.
Took it inside and cut a strip off the same width of my belt using a metal ruler, a box cutter, and something flat under that I had no care if the razer blade went through.
Cut myself a nice almost perfect 19" strip, washed it good, and then wrapped it around the motor and turntable inner wheel rim and stretched until snug but not too tight, noted where my fingers were and then cut the excess.
Took a dab of super glue and connected the two ends together into a loop and rubbed the glued part back and forth in my fingers to make sure the glue didn't get too hard to cause a thump when running past the motor.
* I imagine with some light sanding you could even make the overlap almost invincible to the motor when it wraps around its spindle.
Put it on and turned on the motor.
The results? PERFECT!
The strobe on the TT stays perfectly solid on the dot, the belt does not make a twang or thump sound as it passes the glued part.
Real quick and dirty way to belt up w/o having to actually buy a new one which for some TTs are next to impossible to find.
Anyone ever try something similar?
I own a Garrard GT35 TT and its original belt was getting a tad loose so the spin-up time took longer than usual as it was slipping bad (even after a boiling water treatment).
Just for fun I looked around the house for some rubber that is about the same thickness with as little stretchiness.
Well out in my shed I had an old junk bicycle tire with a blown inner-tube. Took it apart and the rubber lining that is under the inner-tube so that it doesn't rub against the metal and pop is almost identical thickness to my TT belt. The rubber itself even felt the same and had the same stretchiness.
Took it inside and cut a strip off the same width of my belt using a metal ruler, a box cutter, and something flat under that I had no care if the razer blade went through.
Cut myself a nice almost perfect 19" strip, washed it good, and then wrapped it around the motor and turntable inner wheel rim and stretched until snug but not too tight, noted where my fingers were and then cut the excess.
Took a dab of super glue and connected the two ends together into a loop and rubbed the glued part back and forth in my fingers to make sure the glue didn't get too hard to cause a thump when running past the motor.
* I imagine with some light sanding you could even make the overlap almost invincible to the motor when it wraps around its spindle.
Put it on and turned on the motor.
The results? PERFECT!
The strobe on the TT stays perfectly solid on the dot, the belt does not make a twang or thump sound as it passes the glued part.
Real quick and dirty way to belt up w/o having to actually buy a new one which for some TTs are next to impossible to find.
Anyone ever try something similar?
