Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously?

There may be someone like Chris Kimil in St.louis, Mo, who happens to be the owner of Alpha Tech Electronics. His name is Zaah and the telephone number is 314-645-5250

My guess is that Zaahs phone is about to get a few busy signals.

Let's hope you're right about Zaah, Audpulse. If so, it not only frees the mind regarding what we already own but also greases the wheels for future purchases. Thanks.

Glad Chris helped you Downunder.....😀
His ingenuity, understanding and competence in all things audio are unequalled in my experience...
I took back my TT-101 to have him adjust the variable resistors for the platter brake system.
As I discovered....Victor added this feature to allow for the differing weights of various mats...and as I changed to only a thin Victor pigskin mat directly placed on the aluminium platter.....the brake system didn't perform as required. It took Chris precisely 20 minutes to adjust them ( one for 33.3rpm and one for 45rpm). No charge...😘 and they work perfectly..

I would waste no time in having him replace all the electrolytics in your P3.
Since my TT-101 had its done....the speeds are consistently perfect 😜

This guy Chris must be a gem, for sure. And by all means, Downunder, DO replace all the electrolytics in your P3. Like Albert says, you may save yourself a much thornier dilemma at some point in the future, if leaky caps eventually kill off an unobtainable IC. (But maybe there are no ICs in a P3 to worry about.) Now, onto the subject of "IC"s. It seems to me that they are not all created equal. There are some enormously complex and highly specific ICs at work in both DD turntables and in CDPs. Some of them have 16 to 24 "legs", and there are not even solder guns available to remove them from a PCB. That's why the common mode of repair is to throw the whole PCB away and replace it with a new one. Then there are ICs that self-contain a very simple circuit; I have to assume it was one of that type that Chris was able to replicate.