Cigarettes anyone? Since these things were the T-34 of the turntable world -a lot of 'em spent time in bars back in the smoke'em if ya got 'em days.Have serviced several that had been brilliantly cleaned up at some point - but still smelled like stale cigarettes after a few min. of playing.
FWIW - amps can be a bigger problem in terms of warm up odor.
FWIW - amps can be a bigger problem in terms of warm up odor.