Has anyone had any experience using a MELCO tt ?

Thanks T Bone, I appreciate you and your buddys thoughts. As I was offered a mint 3560 but its not cheap and I have managed to find a couple in Japan but have not seen pics yet. I have an RX 1500 now and was thinking of upgrading and wondered if the Melco would be worth the extra cost? I guess cheap or reasonable is the key word, as the one I was offered certainly was not either? Cheers thanks for your reply.

Hey T Bone well I will keep you posted , and I am not sure what the bearings were like either? Which makes me wonder, as I almost think I could have a better tt built If I could source the proper metal. As cnc machines make quick work of a solid slab of metal now. Figuring out the Bearing set up would be the hardest I would think? I have not heard back yet about the ones in japan, I have been trying to track down an old buddy as he speaks Japanese. I would skip the email route and phone direct. I also found others but they are either in Russia or Greece? I was on a site which appeared to be russian. Anyway thanks for your input, they may be just one of those novelty things I dont need at the price. Just for the fun I am going to ask my machinist about it as I know the metal is pricy,maybe he can do it as the Melco is not complicated. Regards Daren

Well I have thought about it before and the only thing that held me back was the metal as if you have to buy a new piece of stock from a metal supplier anything or 1 1/2 inches in bronze or stainless is crazy money. I may go the used industrial route and see what I can turn up. I would like to try a large bearing about the size of a baseball and maybe throw a compressed air in there to get rid of friction. I saw an arm like that on the net somewhere once, the whole arm pivoted on this huge oversized bearing. I was going to get a platter made of solid bronze for the Micro tt I had but had trouble sourcing 3" thick bronze, even solid steel would do as you could have it plated. I happen to have a 7 foot 4 inch pipe of Titianium already that would make great legs that you could fill with sand Maybe? I guess I am not going to get much input from other Melco owners so thanks for the info and your opinions.