What oil for VPI HW19 turntable?


Using a VPI HW19 table and figure it's time for a oil change.
here are the questions. How often should or do you change the oil? And, what oil to use?
scottht
I don't leave cotton from a Q-Tip laying inside the Bearing Well! And if one, or two microscopic strands of cotton did get left behind, please tell me what harm it will cause? I'll answer that question for you, absolutely none at all!

Whatever one wishes to use, I'll say again, don't leave old cruddy oil in the Bearing Well, clean it all out every time. And again, leave the Thrust Plate alone! There's no logical need to keep toying with the screw in Thrust Plate.
Mobil 1 is a good choice, as this brand is a true synthetic oil (a liquid paraffin as opposed to 'reconstituted dino juice' that masquerades as synthetic). Either will vastly outperform the level of performance required to lubricate a turntable bearing.

Regarding the Annie Hall reference, Woody (Alvy Singer) pulled Marshall McLuhan into the scene at a theater ticket line to verbally castrate a pompous university professor. Here it is, a great moment in cinema! Enjoy.

Alvy Singer: (a man behind him in line is talking loudly) What I wouldn't give for a large sock with horse manure in it!
Alvy Singer: (to audience) Whaddya do when you get stuck in a movie line with a guy like this behind you?
Man in Theatre Line: Wait a minute, why can't I give my opinion? It's a free country!
Alvy Singer: He can give it... do you have to give it so loud? I mean, aren't you ashamed to pontificate like that? And the funny part of it is, Marshall McLuhan, you don't know anything about Marshall McLuhan!
Man in Theatre Line: Oh, really? Well, it just so happens I teach a class at Columbia called "TV, Media and Culture." So I think my insights into Mr. McLuhan, well, have a great deal of validity!
Alvy Singer: Oh, do ya? Well, that's funny, because I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here, so, so, yeah, just let me...
(pulls McLuhan out from behind a nearby poster)
Alvy Singer: come over here for a second... tell him!
Marshall McLuhan: I heard what you were saying! You know nothing of my work! You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing!
Alvy Singer (to audience): Boy, if life were only like this!