The
Easy Listening Top was fun, I will still continue to give it a spin, but the major development with it I consider done.
I learned something about some problems that are specific to suspension tops and hope I can use those findings for improvements in the next top.
I think I want to move from
Easy Listening to
Brass Band music. I tried different ways of arranging the lines, every way had its problems, the position and the angle where the threads in the flywheel are, need to be modified for a next version.
Best results with Easy listening: on concave mirror: 9:51 , on dedicated base with recessed tip 19:05.
Moving to brass keeping the mass of the flywheel and AMI constant, I dream of 20 minutes on a concave mirror and over 30 minutes with the recessed tip.
This last rigging became a bit complicated, a sign to move forward I guess.
Yes, as you can see in the video, there is an A-side and a B-side to Easy Listening.
In playing around with the recessed tip and the dedicated base, I came to think that those are not necessarily features my tops are not allowed to have. After all, all those concave mirrors are also quite special bases and also a lot larger/heavier/more expensive than that simple bottle screw cap I used. I don't know for sure yet, so I will probably make tops that can do both modes. The possibility of longer spin times is of course also tempting.