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Confused about compliance matching with airbearing
Dgarretson, Drcilantro-Ooops! You are correct, as p.5 indicates, spindle 14g,arm tube 11g, so 25g w/o CWs, which are 5 &15g, small and large. I assume the spindle weight includes the CW arm, and the clamp, post, etc. (I'm not disassembling to ... 
Confused about compliance matching with airbearing
The horizontal resonance will be considerably lower, because of the higher mass. The ET-2 specs are 7g vertical, 25-35g horizontal effective mass(in horizontal plane, effective is actual, given lack of a pivot). This has a fortunate effect,in that... 
VPI HW-19 Motor
My HW-19 Mk3 uses a Berger Lahr 600 U/MIN(umdrehung/minuten, or rpm) 110 volt motor, cap spec 0.6 microfarad, though cap supplied by VPI is 0.68, measuring 0.653. Part number isRSM 6 VG, reversible synchronous motor, 6 pole pairs(12 pole).BL is no... 
SOTA, soft feet or cones, when to use either?
Just ran across this thread- The reason is that the Sota has a spring suspended subchassis with a low fundamental 'bounce' frequency, of about 2HZ; this makes it nearly immune to high frequency vibration, but vibration at or near it's fundamental ...