Thought I would share this with the other Thorens lovers.
I picked up this deck in really rough shape with a scratched face plate and splitting plinth; but the motor and pulley were fine. Before I even started work on it, a work colleague of my wife's offered to buy it. Since I already own a TD160 I said sure. I kinda wish I hadn't...
I built a new plinth out of solid cherry, solid MDF base, had a custom cover made, stripped down face plate, repainted and applied custom decals. Also did all the mods as described on analogdept website (great resource!). Including new grounding, RCA terminals, chassis dampening and power switch/cable, etc etc. I was amazed at how good it sounds! I think I'm going to have to do the same to my TD160 now. I was sad to see this one depart.