Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously?

I sent a TT101-specific Integrated Circuit chip to a fellow enthusiast in Germany for repair of his own TT101, and he informed me that my chip worked to salvage his unit.

Thankfully I remembered that Lew had 'cornered the market' for the only unobtanium chips used in the TT-101....so after 6 months of stalled frustration......Thuchan's 'junk' TT-101 which I had found for him, is now operational.
And after the complete re-build which his Bavarian craftsman has performed.....it may well be the best TT-101 in existence.
I've offered to buy it from him should he not like it...👅🎼

Maybe this is the one for you Halcro?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/281912466400?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

That TT-801 on Yahoo Japan looks in fine nick Banquo....although it doesn't have the original pressure-seal mat.
That Victor TS-1 air supply also on Yahoo Japan would be a risk Dover as the Seller hasn't tested its operation and is advertising it 'as junk'...😢

Interesting points about the differences between the 101 and 801 Banquo...and as Lew says.....the differing platter weights and chassis weights are intriguing.
Is this even BETTER than the TT-101?

Maybe this is the one for you Halcro?

Haha....I guess it IS close....👀
From the looks of it though, it appears that someone has messed around with it quite a bit....

Thanks, Henry.  In fact, I did not "corner the market" on the Integrated Circuit needed to run the TT101.  I bought only several of them, but probably could have bought 100.  I found them a few years ago from a Hong Kong or mainland China vendor simply by googling the part number written on the back of the chip itself.  I don't see why one could not still do the same.  Most such vendors are on Alibaba.  I gave two chips to Thuchan, since neither he nor I knew for sure that the chips I received were authentic (in other words, not mislabeled as to part number) and in good working order.  Turns out they are indeed correct as to type and functional.  (Evidently, the first one of the two did the trick, so I assume the second one is good also.) Now I am thinking about sending my TT101 to Thuchan's guy.  I've got THE chip for the Denon DP80, too, but no extras I can afford to sell or give away.  I want to keep one extra for my own DP80, which is already running on a new one.  I did not mention names above, because I was not sure Thuchan wanted to go public.