Onedof Turntable Designer Aleks Bakman

THE ONEDOF STORY: Idea of the perfect, zero tolerance self-centering non-resonant friction free bearing came to Aleks when he was climbing and then skiing down the 14265 ft. (4350m) Quandary Peak in Colorado ten years ago (picture above).  At that time Aleks was attaching High Resolution Telescope to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.  Research and calculations of the bearing design took evenings and weekends of more than five years.   Finally the first manufactured bearing had shown better than expected performance.  The trouble was that the science did not stand still all those years.  Redesigning bearing based on the latest NASA publications took another year, but the bearing had become better than the best.  It was the turn of an electric motor to be optimized beyond recognition. After that being done in just a couple of years, came the epic damping agony.  Aluminum platter is easy to machine, but it rings like the bells of St. Paul’s Cathedral.  Inside the platter Aleks placed some high tech witch’s brew of an undisclosed liquid mixed with the proprietary solid particles.  The platter had lost its tongue and became mute.  Now we can play some music and enjoy it.  If the Onedof Turntable is not affordable or if you do not like it, build your own. Now you know how.  Start by climbing the peak.

EDUCATION:    Georgia Institute of Technology.  Master of Science Degree.  Atlanta, GA, 06/92-06/95. School of Mechanical Engineering - Graduate Studies. Studied Fluid Dynamics, Robotics, Turbodynamics, Tribology, Rheology,  Applied Mathematics,  Finite  Element Analysis, Electronics, Advanced Dynamics, Material Science and Vibration Theory. Thesis work: developed, built and tested Elastohydrodynamic (EHD) Simulator.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Aleks Bakman has invented and built other exotic machines performing with exact precision. All of his inventions were and still are used commercially. His first patent Aleks received at the age of 22 for inventing the clock of a computer, which worked on compressed fluid or air instead of electricity.  Later he built and successfully tested a surgical tool that operated on the human cornea using a microscopic supersonic water jet.  Another machine that Aleks developed and built is using a digital spy camera to look into a tiny spot of a lubricated contact between the ball and the race in a rocket engine bearing.  This instrument measures lubricant film thickness, pressure, and tracking force in a small 50 micron diameter contact spot transferring gigantic loads.