After over 20 years of sitting around unloved and unused, I've finally got round to fixing and servicing my old Logic Tempo turntable. From memory it never worked properly after the journey from Stafford to Sheffield in the early 2000s. It's unusual in turntables from that era (mid 1980s) as it has suspension - springs and dampers! OK, so the springs are weedy little things you can compress between finger and thumb and the damping is just a piece of foam, but...
The foam had dissolved into a slightly greasy pile of dust and the springs needed the grommets they fitted into replacing as they too were falling apart. I also did an oil change on it - the main aluminium sub-platter bearing runs in an oil bath and the oil had pretty much turned to treacle. So I cleaned out the old muck and replaced it with no more than 5ml of Motul 10w60. Oil changes are cheap on turntables.
Then I cleaned off the motor pulley face (removing the old drive belt) and the sub platter rim with IPA and fitted a new drive belt (amazingly still available on eBay for a few quid). Thankfully I hadn't binned the old belt, as the new one was too short, too tight and was trying to climb off the drive pulley. The old one was probably a bit loose, but still did the job. And best of all it sounded bloody great. I put Gimme Shelter on as a test and Merry Clayton's soaring vocals really hit the spot. Job jobbed.
Comparison of old and new belts. New belt inside the old one:
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Old belt on top, new belt below:
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And the newly serviced (but still horribly dusty) Logic Tempo turntable:
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Also, my body composition analysis revealed I have a very high body water content of 63.4. 
), so swapped it for the space saver, and did a few other pottering about jobs while I was at it.
