Turntable felts

[SFM-Ptgal]

I need to place a felt on my turntable. I've been looking for the best (cheap) felt :. I got 2 options: natural wool felt or synthetic felt. The last one is quite cheaper. Is the synthetic felt harmful to the records? I mean scraches, static and perhaps other things that I don't know.

Pedro

 

[frankberry]

I've always used synthetic felt.
It's softer.

 

[SFM-Ptgal]

My turntable's new dress:

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc118/SFM-PTGAL/Audio Gear/HarrisCB1201.jpg

Not as the original... but I like this way... ;D

 

[frankberry]

Beautiful job. The color is a good match for the "Harris Blue."

 

[LowPayDJ]

I almost almost forgot what a turntable was until I looked at the pic. Lol Nice job on the felt. I like the way the turntable is stacked on those, hmmm.... what you call those things again? Oh yea, Carts! ;D

 

[amfmsw]

Beautiful job....wanna do a pair of QRKs?

But I noticed the turntable is parked "in gear" instead of neutral. That'll give the authentic '60s "thump thump" from a dented roller.

 

[SFM-Ptgal]

Beautiful job....wanna do a pair of QRKs?

But I noticed the turntable is parked "in gear" instead of neutral. That'll give the authentic '60s "thump thump" from a dented roller.

Oops... I forgot to put it in (N) ;D
Anyway I've noticed that the kind of rubber this TT wheel uses doen't seem to affected by placing it on gear for a day or two. It's dark as tire rubber. The ones I've seen dented on the internet are red or clear yellow :

 

[TowerLamp]

Quick fix for turntable felts...we used to pick-up some felt fabric at sewing shop.
Spray the cleaned up aluminum platter with some adhesive. Place rough trimmed felt scrap on the platter.
Place in 78rpm and hold X-acto knife against fabric to trim neatly.

Got TT back on-air quick so jock wouldn't be left high and dry for next segue way.

And to "Rev" the music to get in more songs per hour we removed the stepped motor idler and machined down the 78rpm portion to slightly larger than the 45rpm top give us about a 4% pitch.
Someday there wil be an accounting and I'll have to plead guilty!

Ahh, the good old days!

 

[littlejohn]

You usedto could buy aftermarket pulleys of various oversizes for the popular TTs. Or, if you had a steady hand, you could put a few turns of splicing tape on.

 

[Oldbones]

My turntable's new dress:

Complete with a genuine Micro-trak arm!

IIRC they didn't much like a tracking force of much less than 5g or so. Back in the mid-ish 70s I worked at a station where the engineer thought he'd upgrade the cartridges to new Stantons. Unfortunately, the arms didn't work well with the lower tracking force and probably 30% of the records skipped. Back in went the old ones.