Has anyone here restored a Sony TTS 8000 platter or a similar strobed platter

Unless the TTS-8000 just needs light cosmetic work it's just not worth the effort of a full restoration.  They were an early effort by Sony to try and capture the low-end of the professional market.  Most were sold to consumers.

I have restored 3-4 of these for customers over the years and IMO they're just not that great.  Looks - good.  Build quality - OK.  Ease of finding replacement parts - poor.  Sound quality, once restored - OK but not great.

Unless you are in love with this model I would look for something else as a restoration project: TD-124, 301/401, Lenco, Rek-O-Kut or EMT.  All of these will provide a better final result and reward for your efforts.

The YouTube videos contrary to my skepticism were quite good @millercarbon . @br3098 I am surprised what you say about the deck. As it happens I am also restoring a jvc tt101. I am going to sell my emt950 project as I have no space left for it - it really needs a specialist to do the work unfortunately as well

parrotbee, I just never felt that this deck was worth the (any) amount of effort required to get it into operational and salable condition.  YMMV

Perhaps Lohanimal is doing a restoration for his own pleasure and satisfaction.  Perhaps he is not thinking about re-sale value.  After all, he did not ask for an appraisal. Apparently also (and here Lohanimal can correct me) his TTS8000 works fine; he just wants a cosmetic upgrade. In my experience, the only hard to find parts for a vintage Japanese turntable are likely to be integrated circuits or op amps that are critical to speed control and which are no longer made.  Power supply parts and discrete transistors (usually superior to the originals) can usually be sourced without much trouble.  Also, I have found that supposedly "no longer available" ICs are actually available, if you search hard enough on the internet.  I found the critical ICs for my Denon DP80, and for my Victor TT101, on Alibaba, for example.  On that score, is it possible that the apparently mediocre performance of TTS8000s that you have owned was simply due to a lack of calibration or some other glitch associated with speed control?  These vintage DD's can often appear to "work" OK, while not really performing up to original specs due to either failing parts or lack of calibration or both.

 @lewm You have hit the nail on the head in virtually every way. Just like anything hi fi it is for my own pleasure. If I want to make money it won’t be selling and restoring Hifi - I don’t know enough - there are better people at it - and even they only scrape a living. I have other decks too...