Motor and spindle bearing for DIY turntable

Here's where I'm at now. I've got a couple of old Pioneer
tts a PL-50 and a PL-35. I've taken the PL-35 apart and I think I can use the motor, spindle/bearing and platter to construct a TT using my own design for the platten and SAMA. I own a small sign shop and I do a lot of work with acrylics so that's the material I will use for the platten, base and SAMA. I will draw the whole thing up on my CAD system and than pull what I need from that to make the files for the CNC. I'll post some pictures when I get along far enough to have something to look at.

Thanks for all the advice.

George (Winggo)

Turntable progress report.

I've just about got my DIY TT done. As I proceeded with the project I made many changes to the original plan. Insead of using acrylic for the base or plinth i ended up using butcher block oak, and I am glad I did. The base turned out beautiful. I glued a number of 1x4 oak boards together, machined (faced) them down to about 3" thick, and then cut the circular shape of the base out of that. I made the arm board out of 1/2" thick black acrylic.

As I stated before I used the motor, spindle and platter from an old Pioneer turntable. I made the motor box/assembly from 1/4" thick black acrylic. I purchased a Rega RB300 arm and a Goldring 1006 cartridge for the unit.

Today is the day the I plan to mount the cartridge and try the turntable out for the first time.

I have some pictures of the process but I do not know how to post them here. I anyone can tell me how I would do that.

Winggo