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guydarryl wrote: ↑Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:10 pm Damn, I will have to be more careful, I left my LP12 running for a couple of days last week (arm lifted thankfully). I was wondering how much a new motor would cost, although everything seems ok.

Fear more for your main bearing - they do wear out on LP12's eventually. Ten years at 500 hours a year (around a couple of hours a night which is what many Linnies did with their record playing thang) is what, 5,000 hours. Definite if not terminal wear at his time I remember. I doubt modern ones are used so extensively unless the owner is in denial about how good digital is these days.

Nearly thirty years old now, last time I looked (about a year ago) the bearing was fine - must have been a rogue one

I know this will go down as well a a bucket of cold sick, but my deck has worked out as a bargain (mind you current buyers would need to own theres for a few hundred years to get equivalent value for money).

guydarryl wrote: ↑Thu Mar 01, 2018 8:14 pm Nearly thirty years old now, last time I looked (about a year ago) the bearing was fine - must have been a rogue one

I know this will go down as well a a bucket of cold sick, but my deck has worked out as a bargain (mind you current buyers would need to own theres for a few hundred years to get equivalent value for money).

I used to be quite good at setting these things up and had many from near and far afield for my attention. Bearing spindles were checked and the condition of the thrust plate checked. Some were very good, others from a mid 80's batch would go off in the first few hours and the rest would be somewhere in between - the spindle tip should offer just a little polished running mark at its tip, the bad ones had a black 'scar' instead, almost like burning... At least the Cirkus kit was a good thing as the inner hub and bearing housing/thrust plate was replaced as well as the sub chassis and important screws, arm board, springs, grommets, belt etc. and many decks needed these replacements. I swear I'm not talking crap here, but from personal experience! The black oil slowed it all down but if it was going to happen, it bloody did in the end.

buehehehe

http://madscientist-audio.com/blackdiscus.html

but what the hell i will try to order free sample
I think we all should - if they have to send tens or hundreds of those
that should limit their profit!

You found a gem company there = magic tubes and Graphene Contact Enhancer

http://madscientist-audio.com/presta/

Dont get me going with things like 'Specialist' Feet/cones, never mind the piss taking prices of them. They are just one of those things that Audio dudes feel compelled to do within their little Hi-Fi regime

don't even know whats that but looking at the photo and then at the price I am sure it belongs here

https://walkeraudio.com/shop/black-diam ... -crystals/

The crystal reference record clamp on that site is 2200 dollars. Is that a misprint? Wtf!

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