Part 2

Now that the canister is ready to mount you can go ahead and solder the wires to the motor keeping an eye on which side is positive etc as shown in picture 1.

Now comes the fiddly bit. You need to push the motor into the canister and hold it facing upwards so you can screw the body of the machine to the motor. This can be fiddly as lining the screws up blindly can take a few tries. You might have to get one screw in then move the canister around a bit to get the other lined up. With these you have to have the cam in place in the machine first before you can screw the body to the motor. One tip is to get the motor in place and the cam on the spindle and tighten the grub screw to stop the motor falling off then line up the screws. In picture 2 you can see the canister on and the lid still open.

Picture 3 shows how if you keep the hole you cut in the canister bottom tight as possible to the mounting holes there should be no gaps when looking at the machine from the front. This makes cleaning easier and stops crap getting into the motor.

All that is left is to make sure that the body and motor are tightened up properly and that you have adjusted the grub screw on the cam so that the cam is running perfectly parallel to the machine body. Carefully fold the wires into the canister as you close the lid and voila! Double check the cam moves freely and that there is no interference. I added a few drops of fresh lube whilst I was doing it.

The last 2 pictures show the assembled machine and how the clip cord attaches. As I said before this would work well for an RCA connection too if you prefer. All that is needed is to finish the look of canister, plasti dip or maybe some vinyl wrap or stickers. I used what I had but I've seen some black lid canisters which would look better. Also if you're super handy a turned wooden canister would look awesome! I just want to give mine a thorough working test now. So far so good! Hope this gives you some food for though?




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