It arrived today and man was it dirty. It was packed decently well but even so the lateral weight had broken off. It took a lot of effort to get the remains out of the tonearm but luckily I succeeded in doing that. It was so full of nicotine that if you had the lid closed you couldn't even see what was inside. Not to mention the cables being black and hard from some type of dirt. I fully disassembled it, cleaned everything, replaced the rubber on the motor standoffs, lubricated the tonearm and re did most of the solder joints. Luckily underneath all that there was a pretty nice condition turntable. See picture attached below. It came equipped with a modern denon headshell (dj style) and one of those audio technica at 3600 carts. Wasn't even heavy enough to properly adjust the tonearm. I still had a few sony headshells laying around but none for this tonearm sadly. Still this is miles better than what it was. Overal I am pretty happy with it now, sounds great. Definitely one of the nice belt driven mechanisms I have seen. I much prefer this motor over the bl-51 and bl-71 for example (bl-51 is the same turntable as the bl-71 except without a tonearm) which is generally a lot more expensive. Such a shame about the lateral weight shaft though. Is there any way I could find a replacement? The weight itself is also missing part of the internal locking mechanism. I managed to recover a spring and a tiny metal ball, but if I can find a new shaft that seems like a very minor issue. The only real upside to this whole ordeal was that the anti skate weight was actually included. Let's hope the seller will agree to atleast a partial refund
