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Home made turntable isolation

After researching many different issolation platforms I have decided to make my own to hold my TNT JR, based soly on price. I am going to have two peices of 10ga stainless lazor cut to my spec. (I call on a couple of accounts w/ lazors. The problem is the core, I have researched and found fiberglass suppliers carry many different materials high and low dencity foam. The one I would use is a 1 1/2 inch honeycomb but the honeycomb stands on end and I dont think this would be the best option to dampen vibration. If it ran the other way it would be my choice hands down. Also balsa wood is availible. I will have about $125 into something that would be $900 (I checked)What do you guys think on the core. David
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Cylinderking_1,

Another suggestion would be to use cork between the sheets of steel. It's much better than foam. Has good isolation properties but not the mushiness of foam. Also, cork doesn't collapse like foam might under continuous weight.

This might be 2X the price you quoted of $125 in your post -how about a Neuance shelf from Ken Lyon? I have 2 friends who are using it & swear by it. One has it under his Spacedeck & the other under his VPI Aries. The Aries perf. went up a few notches w/ the Neuance shelf under it. Maybe you've already checked into this & decided it's too expensive?

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