Oracle Alexandria turntable question

@tubes4good ,

Thank you for the information.

I shall send him an email.

Nice sounding turntable but difficult to maintain.   I have one and would pay $200 for yours to use for parts. 

@thecarpathian I regularly spend (waste) $80 on old and imperfect audio gear to try it and then if it doesn't work out: sell it. I am probably in the red as I have 3 items waiting to fix. (I never fixed anything in my life, have disassembled electronics in plastic bags in every corner in my garage.

Still, I would say that the simplest, dumbest component is the turntable, easiest to fix. Is it worth $80 for the parts alone?  

I would say parts alone are well north of $80.

Thing is it's close to 100 miles away. Still weighing time and gas to pick up a broken turntable whose parts are really hard to acquire.

I wouldn't drive for the turntable alone, that's 3 hours. Shipping would be fairly cheap though. 

Unless you have some particular emotional reason for the brand. I know I would drive 3 hours for Celestion SL6 speakers.