Has anyone here restored a Sony TTS 8000 platter or a similar strobed platter

Perhaps with further trolling he could have pulled up an SP10 Mk3.Anyway, that's a remarkable story.

+3!But what estupido let that beautiful thing sit in water for god knows how long?  Did you find it while SCUBA diving?

Wow! Great job.But what about the rest of the chassis?  Have you been able to restore the function of the electronics?

Perhaps Lohanimal is doing a restoration for his own pleasure and satisfaction.  Perhaps he is not thinking about re-sale value.  After all, he did not ask for an appraisal. Apparently also (and here Lohanimal can correct me) his TTS8000 works fine; he just wants a cosmetic upgrade. In my experience, the only hard to find parts for a vintage Japanese turntable are likely to be integrated circuits or op amps that are critical to speed control and which are no longer made.  Power supply parts and discrete transistors (usually superior to the originals) can usually be sourced without much trouble.  Also, I have found that supposedly "no longer available" ICs are actually available, if you search hard enough on the internet.  I found the critical ICs for my Denon DP80, and for my Victor TT101, on Alibaba, for example.  On that score, is it possible that the apparently mediocre performance of TTS8000s that you have owned was simply due to a lack of calibration or some other glitch associated with speed control?  These vintage DD's can often appear to "work" OK, while not really performing up to original specs due to either failing parts or lack of calibration or both.