Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
Good post Tom,

I have three TD124/IIs and find that the maintenace is actually quite low. If you use good quality belts there is very little rubber shedding. I give my decks a 'service' every six months or so and apart from cleaning up a small amount of dust from under the platter, the only maintenance is to re-grease the idler wheel bearing and lubricate the belt pully bearing and the main bearing using Thorens oil supplied by Schopper.

After ten years or so, I replace the rubber chassis suspension 'mushrooms', which have often become hard or have started to collapse.
Interesting I removed the Schopper belt I bought as I thought it was too tight (and causing noise) ... don't use the mushrooms as I have opted instead to go for a very massy plinth (30kg+) though I know some swear by a light weight plinth and the mushrooms ..