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Tonearm bearings and drive wheel to be ordered shortly.
The arm bearings will have you in hysterics - the vertical bearing is a knife edge which sits in a rubber V. It is the rubber part that you replace. Don't assume that the forward and backwards play in the arm is abnormal, its part of the design! I remember ordering the bearings for mine, and then realising that the ones in there were actually to spec. I never bothered fitting them. IIRC there are two slightly different designs of idler wheel, one with a circlip, and another with a threaded fitting… might be worth checking.
I bet the Lenco would actually sound great in a big heavy plinth with a decent arm and cart, the build quality is truly excellent, its just that the arm is completely insane. They were often fitted with SME 3009s as an alternate.
Tony.
