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RE: Which Hadcock 242?

The company who I think may be the UK distributor (?), see the link, lists it as weighing 5lbs (rather eccentric as we do not normally use imperial weights over here). Anyway that is 2.27kg which is way too heavy for a Michell Gyro (the arm plus the Michell (or other) mounting plate should total 1kg for the suspension to function correctly*).

However as that figure is placed just above the shipping cost I wonder if that is actually the shipping weight? There are contact details on this web page so you could ask for clarification. From its looks I would expect the arm itself to be lighter but who knows, it may have a very substantial arm pillar.

* NB: If you replace the Gyro spring suspension with the independently developed rubber modification then not only will you get a substantial improvement in SQ in every area but you may be able to exceed that 1kg limitation as the suspension is no longer really bouncy.

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