Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously?

Lew, i made notes reading this thread. The source for my suggestion was your old post (see the quote below). I assume it never happened and you shipped to JP, which is great.

@lewm

I am also thinking hard about sending my Victor TT101 to Germany so that Thuchan’s guy can fix it, once and for all. I got an email from Thuchan today; he is thrilled with the sound of his TT101. This is a guy who owns some of the most expensive turntables in the world, so I take his praise for the TT101 very seriously. 

Thuchan had evidently purchased a broken TT101 with Halcro’s help, and his tech determined that it needed replacement of SC3042. Until this recent episode, I had no idea whether the chips I bought (from a vendor in Hong Kong) were genuine or even in operating condition, but Thuchan’s tech got his TT101 up and running perfectly by virture of installing the chip I sent. This is great news for me as well, because I have more SC3042 chips on hand. (By the way, I think they are still available from China and Hong Kong.)

I just checked shipping quotes for 12kg parcel and Germany is affordable, USA is expensive, but Oz is terribly expensive to ship to. And that was just registered mail, not an express. So i would appreciate any help to get in toucht with Tuchan’s tech guy for consultation. I see the problem with Tuchan’s drive was different than mine, so i want to ask if he’s familiar with my problem and if it’s possible to fix and calibrate everything to keep this deck for years. Thanks

Sorry, Chakster.
Evidently my memory of the chronology of events is faulty.  Your quote of my old post suggests that Thuchan's TT101 was up and running before mine.  Otherwise, I would not have been "thinking hard" about sending my own TT101 to Germany, back then.  However, I never did send it to Germany, because I (subsequently) found JP in NYC.  Thanks for setting me straight.

By any chance, do you know the date of that post you quoted?

Sorry, Chakster.
Evidently my memory of the chronology of events is faulty.  Your quote of my old post suggests that Thuchan's TT101 was up and running before mine.  Otherwise, I would not have been "thinking hard" about sending my own TT101 to Germany, back then.  However, I never did send it to Germany, because I (subsequently) found JP in NYC.  Thanks for setting me straight.

By any chance, do you know the date of that post you quoted?

@chakster 
Some time ago I read of a specialized Jvc turntables dealer and a good repairer of all Jvc turntables, the lab is located in U.K.

Could it be close to you if I can find the address?

All I can say is, beware of a dealer who claims to be a "good repairer" of all JVC turntables.  That does not necessarily mean he can decipher a TT101.  On one of my misadventures, I sent my TT101 to a guy in southern New Jersey who claimed over the phone that fixing it would be no problem at all.  That didn't work out well, but he is well regarded as a service center for routine problems.