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RE: exquisite turntables need oil

Posted by beach cruiser (A) on June 23, 2017 at 03:02:48

In Reply to: RE: exquisite turntables need oil posted by bare on June 22, 2017 at 10:51:38:

Thanks for the info, without a listening test, I would still be guessing that the type of oil couldn't possibly make an audible difference.

Seeing the sewing machine oil as platter lube is a pretty far our suggestion, I agree. It triggered a memory. When I was a kid, we always had three in one oil, which was sold as a household and sewing lubricant, my mom used it on her sewing machine.

As a kid, I sometimes wondered why the spout would get gummy . Now I know it was because it was a vegetable based oil, packed in the same distinctive shaped dispenser car as singer sewing machine oil , which was petrol based, and which could only be purchased at the sewing machine place. Three in one oil you could buy at the family market, and it became a popular product, by mimicking a better product that most people needed at the time. Kind of like Budweiser beer.

Three -N- One has since changed formulations. Budweiser has started flag waiving on beer labels as the answer to a more sophisticated consumer. Whatever works.

Dang hard to post without talking about my turntable bearing. I love the design. With modern oils, the thing should last forever at 33 1/3 rpm's.

Edits: 06/23/17

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