Lube for turntable - What do you prefer?

Guys,

I have sound, after careful research that oil is the better choice for lubing the bearing...

It is a low tolerance bearing with plastic sleeves and thus the oil be better.

Thanx anyway - what I want to know is what do you find works best in your machine?

DV

Thom - thank you for the feedback.

I think I have found the lube for my machine - the sound is open & relaxed with lots of "air" in between. Rumble has gone down to virtually zero and it was a change for the better.

You see - I use radical VESCONITE to make the main-bearing sleeves from. This is a super low-friction plasic with excellent wear-resistance. It doesn't have that nasty ring/ping that copper have... I like it very much.

DV

Ketchup,

Lets just say the VESCONITE sleeves fits precisely over the platter shaft. The engineer did a fantastic job of making it fit perfectly without any 'resistance'.

You see, Vesconite has a build-in lubricant and can be used without oil... but oil is needed to quiet the main-bearing.

The shaft is 20mm and the tip rides on two ball-bearings ontop of eachother.

Best regards,
D Visser