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Location: so cal
Joined: September 24, 2003
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My slight contribution is not about linn oil and is off topic unless you want to open the discussion to oils in general. I don't know if my table passes for " exquisite" , since I didn't have to take out a second mortgage to buy the thing. It's a Michell GYro se, a demo from a supporting vender, the needle doctor. A fine transaction for me, and trouble free , right down to the shipping. Now that I have made fun of using "exquisite" , to describe product, I'll get to my point.
The michell uses a platter bearing that pumps oil as it rotates, and they include a little bottle of dedicated michell branded oil for assembly, which is also available separately. It might be the history of the company that makes it so consumer friendly, it started as a hobby, and grew into diy kits sold from the back of his garage, before the design was finalized. (All those different ears and listening spaces over time working on tweaks paid off in sound, according to me. ) Anyway, not being snobs, they offer that the dedicated oil can be replaced by high quality synthetic oil. Which makes sense, long chain oil molecules are required for most advanced lubrication today, and a turntable should use sota oil. . ( natural oil has a mixture of sizes and broken chains among the long stable molecular chains, which can cause molecular gaps in the lubricating oil structure, and resultant lubrication failures, on a molecular level first, than grows to complete failure, as more chains break. Anyway I called the mobil 1 oil advice line and asked if zero thirty viscosity would be a better turntable oil than the 5-30 weight I was using. No advantage, was the report. the answer was delayed because they had to call the lab , for the unusual question. With my next required platter bearing oil change, I will switch to high mileage 5-30 mobil 1. Oils have a combination of additive packages, and modern cars are designed to lubricate with oils that promote catalytic converter health. Older, high mileage , oil packages have more anti shear additives, rougher on converters, that are not in the new regular oil formulations. . I really don't think it makes much difference, at 33 1/3 rpm , the stuff that lubricates supersonic engines in combat should be able to handle it. If I owned a linn I would probably use the "black oil" on the very slight chance that they listened to a selection of oils . I would also have a deep hunger to find the construction of black oil. I know none of these guys operate an oil refinery.
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