Reply to Disable Quartz Lock on the 1200

So I'm preparing to take my turntables apart to do various mods to them like getting them Powder Coated, putting in LED lights, replacing a damaged tonearm and just general tuneup since I've had them for about 20 years now and I have never really done any maintenance to them.

I was reading this article about disabling the quartz lock:

http://technics.junglist.pl/hacking_technics.html

Has anyone done the quartz lock hack to they're decks? Is it worth doing while my tables are gutted?