Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously?

Forgot to mention that I built a bearing damper exactly like Albert Porter's idea, into the cherry base of the above plinth.  Albert uses a block of iron.  I am leery of putting that much iron near the motor's rotor, which in the Mk3 is a gigantic circular magnet bolted onto the underside of the platter.  So I used a brass block of similar dimensions and mass.  A threaded brass rod perforates the brass block and makes contact at its upper end with the bearing housing.  Albert uses this idea in his Panzerholz plinths, assuming he still makes them.  I just snug the brass rod up against the bearing assembly; not too tight, just snug.  

@lewn, just took a peek at your SP10 Mk3 on your system profile, very nicely done.  I like it a lot. 

Thanks, brf.

Very nice Lewm. Good to see you using it with a modern tonearm

Its your best sounding turntable now?    What does it bring sonically that the others don't?

The Mk3 is king of pace and rhythm, not at the expense of sounding too "tight", for want of a better word.  Originally, without the Krebs mod, I would say it did sound a little tight, compared to the L07D.  Someone else might prefer the more languid sound of the L07D, and I certainly like that, too.  I recently mounted a ZYX Universe cartridge on the Reed, purchased from one of our brethren here.  I was primed to love the Universe, based on hearing it at the home of my neighbor up the street, who has since moved on to a Universe Premium (or whatever they call the 3rd generation of the Uni). I thought then that it was the best MC I had ever heard.  (He was using a Galibier turntable with a Talea 2 tonearm back then, now uses a Telos.) I am loving the UNI on the Mk3, too. Yes, there are two crazy audiophiles within less than a quarter of a mile of each other on my block.