Hi Matthias,
Welcome to Vinyl Circle. You'll find a photo near the bottom of this page:
http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=119851.40I think there's another in my gallery:
Lets see if I can get the other one here.
The ceramic part of the side is approx. 28mm. tall. From the bottom the side is straight, up to 22mm then it slopes in slightly. The top of the belt should be about 5mm below the point where the slope begins.
My Sota is disassembled at the moment, but I could take a photo of the platter with the belt on, if that would help.
It seems to me that platter height will be dictated by the suspension and you don't have much say in the matter. The pulley height is nonadjustable, but I guess we could figure something out. Do you know how to adjust the suspension? Perhaps you could put a weight on the armboard that weighs the same as your arm, adjust the lead weights so it bounces straight up and down, then see where the belt rides.
Let me know how you make out. Maybe I can help.
Regards,
neo
termann
Ok, why do i register and jumping in this thread:
yesterday has arrived a nice (old) set of SOTA vacuum platter (+ bearing and controlbox) and i want to build from this a turntable (next week i will get a rabco sl-8e as arm for this project).
If neobob is already active, i would ask him to make a higher res picture from the sota platter with belt, because i want to now, in which height the belt must wrap the platter (on my platter i cannot find a trace of using the belt, maybe its "NOS").
Best regards,
Matthias
