Question for TW Acustic Owners

No motor lube under any circumstance.

Philb7777
Thanks for the wakeup call. Its been over a year if not more since I did this.
Cheers
Pradeep

Phib7777, Based on my modest experience with VPI, owned a Aries 2 and later upgraded to the super platter, the VPI bearings are much much smaller than the Raven. That means that pressure per square inch, psi, is way higher with the VPI.

No expert in this area but the lubs required for each application would be considerably different.

Hard for me to see how one could damage the Raven bearing. The VPIs is fairly small and lub maintenance would be more an issue of neglected imo.

As TdAudio says, this 12 month thing sounds more precautionary than anything else.

If you are using the T/T regularly then the oil will be directed to the top of the bearing in which case I don't see the need for constant re-lubing?
I'd be more concerned if it was left inactive for very long periods?

When TW first went into manufacture (despite the old style of oil application) the emphasis was more on the Raven being "maintenance free". I bought the Raven on this premise so it's too late to move the goalposts now! :)

Currently I've done one relube in 4 years and see/hear no change in performance on reference recordings.
Kind regards....

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