What oil do you use in yours then ?
What oil do you use in yours then ?
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Location: Hampshire
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I'm Mel.
Oil threads always seem to generate loads of comments and most seem to be around engine or gearbox oils - probably as they are cheap and readily available.
Most oil companies have identified the many uses to which oil is put and have a solution for it without any further mixing work by ourselves and they don't cost £1000's per litre like the small files supplied by HiFi dealers.
However, don't forget such dealers don't sell a great deal of oil and need a profit from it. Most of us think nothing about spending £100's on bits of goo and cheap (to make) metal spikes for our systems so why moan about a much smaller amount for oil which is much more critical to our expensive decks.
However, for the more frugal amongst us why not consider the actual design and use to which the oil is put. I think Cagey may have mentioned the word 'spindle' in an earlier post and that possibly gives a clue to the oil type needed. Engineering shops have many machines with revolving spindles and the oil companies have many grades which are a better bet than motor oils. Try looking at something like Mobil Velocite oil probably No6 ? - I have a feeling it is a common oil found in small files which are sold for a lot of money. The main thing is to ensure the additives do not affect the plastic bits (Peek, etc) found in some bearings. The spindle oil is also cheap to but and not difficult to find.
Mel
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire these days
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I'm Shaun.
Given the UK retail markup of halving it and adding VAT, your five mills of oil is actually worth less than fifteen quid plus a little bit of VAT. Now I don't know about you but even fifteen quid is shite steep for five mills of mineral oil. Had it been highly expensive synthetic oil we would be nearer the mark. I used to pay out a bloody fortune for synthetic oil for my Ducati's but I as sure as hell am not doing it for a bloody turntable. As the man has already stated, it's only a bloody turntable and a secondhand one at that...!
Yep but it's under a damn site more stress than a piddley bear bearing is it not?
My System
John Wood KT88 Amp.
Paradise Phono Stage
Sony TTS-8000 Turntable.
PMAT-1010 MK6 Tonearm.
Ortofon Cadenza Bronze
Sony X555ES Cd Player
Yamaha NS1000m Speakers
So motor oil must be brilliant in a TT then? It's a little more complicated than that.
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire these days
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I'm Shaun.
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire these days
Posts: 4,779
I'm Shaun.
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire these days
Posts: 4,779
I'm Shaun.