Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade

I had never heard the word "fettler" until reading this thread. I am aware of the term "fettle", as in the term "fine fettle", which I guess means everything is copacetic for that individual or that object. Wikipedia has several disparate definitions for fettler, only one of which seems applicable to the care and feeding of an LP12. See definition #3 here.  And even that definition does not specify that the thing is done well.

Is fettler a term adopted by Linn explicitly to refer to a tech who is qualified to work on the LP12? If so, an inept fettler does not leave your LP12 in fine fettle.

A fettler is a British term for a maintenance or repair worker, or someone who sands or grinds small imperfections from metal or ceramic. 

@daveyf

Thank you.

Just to explain, it wasn’t the same LP12. I sold my original turntable in a fit of madness five years ago. About two years ago I started to have a yearning for vinyl again. My dealer lent me an LP12 that had been traded in. It was essentially the same as my old turntable, except it had Urika II instead of Urika I.

It sounded streets ahead of my old turntable. So eventually after much soul searching, I bought it at a reasonable price. I put the improvement down to the Urika II working so well with my Klimax DSM/3 Hub. In the light of your comments about LP12 fettlers, I do wonder if there might be more to it than that. Of course, there may same other factor in play.

Funny you mention bearing oil. I was just watching a video of Linn’s Gordon Inch building a Bedrok LP12. He adds a few extra drops of oil in the Karousel to get exactly the right level.

I’ll ask my dealer about the warm up time. Now I think about this, it  has been most noticeable since I had Radikal and Karousel upgrades fitted. Also, that coincides with winter.

Linn and its dealers cultivated a mythology about the need for "fettling" of the LP12.

God knows, I fettled enough of them to know, and to curse why the damn thing was so badly designed/toleranced in the first place.

I used the term fettling as follows _

The Linn Sondek is of Scottish descent.

Scottish dictionary defines fettling as -

II. v. 1. tr. To put to rights, into good condition or working order, to mend, repair; to settle, arrange

The best Linn was the 40th Anniversary model because it came with a bottle of 40 year old Highland Park scotch whisky. 

Perfect way to drown your sorrows when your Linn goes out of tune - again.