Who has experience diy a cartridge?
Is it difficult to diy?
Do I need microscrope if I diy a a cartridge?
I saw some people in japan handmade a cartridge
Is it difficult to diy?
Do I need microscrope if I diy a a cartridge?
I saw some people in japan handmade a cartridge
I was thinking of trying to put some padding in my cartridge to make up for the failing pads.... I am trying to find a new cartridge for my player but I cant find one......
Anyone ever try to just put padding underneath to @ least get a MONO output? (I would think as long as the pads are nicely touching the shaft it will work quite well)
I have a 1968 Micromatic player (Magnavox) and my cartridge # is 560315
I have looked but havent found it,someone else possibly be able to find that one for me??
Anyone ever try to just put padding underneath to @ least get a MONO output? (I would think as long as the pads are nicely touching the shaft it will work quite well)
I have a 1968 Micromatic player (Magnavox) and my cartridge # is 560315
I have looked but havent found it,someone else possibly be able to find that one for me??
I'm busy with a diy cartridge right now. I'm using the cantilever from an old stereo cartridge which has an unusual configuration of its coil former attached at the rear of the cantilever.
It will be mono as I need another mono cartridge.
Most parts have been made and its time to wind coils today. There are also some small screws absent which I will fit later today. The cylindrical neodymium magnet has been drilled and press-fitted into the pivoted section of wood. Inside the magnet you can see the brass tube which will contain the coils and damper. All pics show the boron cantilever with its coil spools at its rear. The cartridge top mounting plate has threaded brass inserts made on my lathe to take standard M2.5 stainless steel cap screws spaced the standard 1/2" (12.7mm) apart
Some pics to follow.
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It will be mono as I need another mono cartridge.
Most parts have been made and its time to wind coils today. There are also some small screws absent which I will fit later today. The cylindrical neodymium magnet has been drilled and press-fitted into the pivoted section of wood. Inside the magnet you can see the brass tube which will contain the coils and damper. All pics show the boron cantilever with its coil spools at its rear. The cartridge top mounting plate has threaded brass inserts made on my lathe to take standard M2.5 stainless steel cap screws spaced the standard 1/2" (12.7mm) apart
Some pics to follow.
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I'm very interested to hear what it will sound like. Some tapped threads were done and screws inserted. Hopefully I should be able to wind its coils today.
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You're welcome😀
About to wind coils today and it should be playing at the end of the day.
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A similar damping scheme to the previous incarnation of the cartridge. A short section of butyl rubber tube over the coils.
See the pic.
Regds
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I admire your precision. I assume you have a good microscope, or do you have superhuman eyes to see what you are doing?
Hi All
I have a stereoscope but don't use it as my glasses get in the way. I also have other means of enlarging objects but these offer too little magnification. The only workable magnification I use is a 10X clip-on loupe for my glasses.
Azimuth is set by eye😀
I do make better looking needles. The job has taught me many skills such as working with my lathe and mill, chemistry, anodising, electroplating and many others.
With the mono all wood cartridge, the configuration of the cantilever and the coil former at its rear was very limiting in what I could do with it. All the parts except for the ruby cantilever on the second set of pics were made in my workshop. The wild olive EMT style headshell and its coupler as well. This also includes the anodised cartridge mounting plate as well as the goldplated pure nickel cartridge parts. Note, there is no locking screw in the cantilever suspension tube but that's another story...
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I have a stereoscope but don't use it as my glasses get in the way. I also have other means of enlarging objects but these offer too little magnification. The only workable magnification I use is a 10X clip-on loupe for my glasses.
Azimuth is set by eye😀
I do make better looking needles. The job has taught me many skills such as working with my lathe and mill, chemistry, anodising, electroplating and many others.
With the mono all wood cartridge, the configuration of the cantilever and the coil former at its rear was very limiting in what I could do with it. All the parts except for the ruby cantilever on the second set of pics were made in my workshop. The wild olive EMT style headshell and its coupler as well. This also includes the anodised cartridge mounting plate as well as the goldplated pure nickel cartridge parts. Note, there is no locking screw in the cantilever suspension tube but that's another story...
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Thank you all😀
Let's hope the OP gets some inspiration and diy's his own. Although a lathe and a mill is useful to have, it is possible to make a playing cartridge with hand tools such as files and saws as long as basic principles of transducers are understood.
I am a member of an engineering society here in Cape Town and we have an extensive library at our premises. I came across a drawing with instructions of how to make a cartridge using a still available Eclipse magnet in an old magazine from the early 40's and got hooked.
The cartridge in the wood headshell is stereo.
Regds
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Let's hope the OP gets some inspiration and diy's his own. Although a lathe and a mill is useful to have, it is possible to make a playing cartridge with hand tools such as files and saws as long as basic principles of transducers are understood.
I am a member of an engineering society here in Cape Town and we have an extensive library at our premises. I came across a drawing with instructions of how to make a cartridge using a still available Eclipse magnet in an old magazine from the early 40's and got hooked.
The cartridge in the wood headshell is stereo.
Regds
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We knit with needles or even darn but stylus are used when we play recordings.
I'm humbled by your endeavours.
Beautiful work!
Has it been hard to source all of the materials? I've never been able to find a suitable tie wire in the past, in particular.
Has it been hard to source all of the materials? I've never been able to find a suitable tie wire in the past, in particular.
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