Hi Triumph
One thing I forgot to mention but its important, when you mount the cart on the foam, it is important that the foam goes all the way to the edge of the headshell, not just under the cart itself, this limits the fore/aft and sideways movement. Not sure if you did it this way and apologies for not making this clear before.
I imagine if the mount were only under the cart bass would be effected.
One thing I forgot to mention but its important, when you mount the cart on the foam, it is important that the foam goes all the way to the edge of the headshell, not just under the cart itself, this limits the fore/aft and sideways movement. Not sure if you did it this way and apologies for not making this clear before.
I imagine if the mount were only under the cart bass would be effected.
I have done a lot off experimenting this week coming soon I hope on Help I am falling in love with an idler TT!
And I came to the conclusion I have to do a lot of work on the arm first before starting any other tweaks like the one described on this thread.
The arm I am using has very bad bearings and I have to do something on problem first.
So first this problem has to be solved If possible!!!!
Thanks Zero one for all your ideas. You may not think it from this post but you have given me some great thoughts for improvement.
And I came to the conclusion I have to do a lot of work on the arm first before starting any other tweaks like the one described on this thread.
The arm I am using has very bad bearings and I have to do something on problem first.
So first this problem has to be solved If possible!!!!
Thanks Zero one for all your ideas. You may not think it from this post but you have given me some great thoughts for improvement.
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Glad to help, fixing the looseness in the horizontal bearing can be pain, most arms on cheaper TT are woeful in this area, but the better ones are usually adjusable, though it can be tricky to get to the bearing and sometimes even harder to actually get it tightened up nicely.
The weight I used over the top of the bearing made a huge difference but on a lot of tonearms it wouldn't be possible due to the design.
Overall the bearings in most arms are really flimsy and too small for stability, I have looked at modding one arm I have by replacing the whole horizontal bearing setup with the bearing and partial housing from a video cassette, I don't think it would ever give problems then. In this case the cables would be routed over the top of the arm rather thn through the centre of the bearing tube.
The vertical bearings are usually a little better and are normally easiy adjusted, the only problem is that once tight enough not to chatter in sympathy with the music they are often prone to binding in spots, which is a real problem.....once again it is due to poor quality bearings generally and this is pretty much impossible to fix on most arms.
I imagine if someone were to build or heavily modify a tone arm the bearings from floppy drives or even small hard drives could be used.... these are extremely high quality items, they have to be of course or they would fail very quickly in service.
Anyhow happy playing, just remember almost anything you can do to a TT will make a difference, ah the beauty of analogue!
The weight I used over the top of the bearing made a huge difference but on a lot of tonearms it wouldn't be possible due to the design.
Overall the bearings in most arms are really flimsy and too small for stability, I have looked at modding one arm I have by replacing the whole horizontal bearing setup with the bearing and partial housing from a video cassette, I don't think it would ever give problems then. In this case the cables would be routed over the top of the arm rather thn through the centre of the bearing tube.
The vertical bearings are usually a little better and are normally easiy adjusted, the only problem is that once tight enough not to chatter in sympathy with the music they are often prone to binding in spots, which is a real problem.....once again it is due to poor quality bearings generally and this is pretty much impossible to fix on most arms.
I imagine if someone were to build or heavily modify a tone arm the bearings from floppy drives or even small hard drives could be used.... these are extremely high quality items, they have to be of course or they would fail very quickly in service.
Anyhow happy playing, just remember almost anything you can do to a TT will make a difference, ah the beauty of analogue!
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