About the last thing I need to resolve on my DIY tonearm is a cueing device for my shaky hands. This was especially evident last night as I was digging out albums with the most warpage, to see how my new tonearm would handle them. For the record, it tracked them wonderfully, BUT, I had to place the stylus on the album with the table off, because I don't even have a finger lift on my arm yet and those warps are hard to "land" even if I did have one.
So I've been looking around at ideas for a cueing device I can make myself. I don't think I need one that is damped, I can lower a lever smoothly (my hands can handle a single axis okay).
Has anyone seen anything especially simple/elegant that wouldn't require a metal lathe to produce?
So I've been looking around at ideas for a cueing device I can make myself. I don't think I need one that is damped, I can lower a lever smoothly (my hands can handle a single axis okay).
Has anyone seen anything especially simple/elegant that wouldn't require a metal lathe to produce?
Damped allows you to let go before the needle hits the vinyl, so you aren't shaking the deck at that point. Without damping I'd go for a relatively long lever with very light action. I suspect a carefully folded coathanger wire in a couple of sleeve bearings might work nicely
and be fun to design and perfect.
and be fun to design and perfect.
I've seen a bent wire approach, it looked like it would work nicely.
I've been contemplating some ideas that would look/work a lot like a conventional lifter with off-the-shelf components. I just need some time to start cutting some parts/trying things.
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