September 2023 - Machine maintenance and upgrade delays

So it's been another month, and not much has really happened here at Bool Audio, apart from more machine maintenance and preparations for installing the 4th axis. I have also started a new part-time job at a local musical instrument shop located on Fore Street in Exeter. We are currently in the process of shop fitting and getting ready to open the new store, hopefully in the second or third week of October 2023.  The shop is called "The Music Depot" https://www.themusicdepot.co.uk/ , and it will stock sheet music, pianos, both electric and acoustic, as well as a range of acoustic guitars and accessories to begin with. 

Ongoing work..

We are continuing to work on the 4th axis upgrade and assemble more tonearm cables that will be available to buy from our eBay store.

Here are some of the cable boots with the silver plated copper shielding ready for the Switchcraft RCA plugs.

Here we are making a manifold for the 4th axis, this will give us a way of connecting the main servo and power cables to it.

This is what the DIN plugs look like before they are installed on to the Belden cable,  currently they will only fit the 5mm diameter cable.  We hope to produce one that will accept 1/4" and 8mm cables in the future.

Each of the two round holes will have a M18x1.5 thread and O ring grooves to prevent coolant getting in to the electronics. 

Tonearm Update

I don't know if we have shown much of the tonearm arm prototype but its really working well and has been in use for a number of months now,  here are a few photos of how it is looking.  

This is still a prototype so some parts are still in a raw state and not anodised yet.

Here we have the arm attached to a LP12 playing Bonobo Black Sands album with the transparent record clamp.

A close up of the cue mechanism designed and made in-house.  It uses the standard piston and spring method with silicone oil to function. 

Thanks for checking by , if you have any questions please get in touch with the email at the bottom of the page, hopefully we will have some more things to share next month.