Teres is Done

What - no wooden platter? JUST KIDDING! (And what's with the knife in the foreground? Better not let 'ol Howard get ahold of that...there's no telling what sort of tragic faux pas he might commit ;^)

Actually, I do have a serious question. As the practically-lifetime owner of an 'integrated' turntable design, could someone please bring me up to speed on what the necessity of using an outboard 'junction box' is?

Junction box? Do you mean the step up transformer?

Does the error have to do with the height of the spindle on the outboard motor? Did it not initially line up with the plane of the platter?

Nope. I knew it wouldn't line up 'cause I made the plinth over an inch thicker than spec.

Good guess!

It doesn't look like the step-up, but I could be wrong. I'm talking about the interface between the tonearm leadout cables and the interconnnects going to the tranny or phonoamp. I believe this is usually referred to as a junction box, but I don't know why it's needed. Is it typically nothing except wired-together jacks inside a box?