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Has this heart stopper ever happened to anyone else?

I was playing a 7" 45 RPM on my TT. Side A went fine. I flipped it to Side B to discover a very short lead in area on that side. I dropped the cueing lever and... my Benz SL just missed the edge of the record and hit my spinning cork mat. I immediate lifted the arm off the mat but I was scared to death that I just destroyed a literally (for me) irreplaceable cartridge. I looked at it carefully under a magnifier, let it rest on a record while it wasn't spinning to check the suspension, and played a known bit of vinyl. It all looks and sounds fine, but is it possible I got through this with really no damage? Is a cart likely this kind of situation?

I did take a close up shot of the stylus and cantilever and looked at it on my PC the way I do when I measure SRA and both SRA and VTA look and measure fine.


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Topic - Has this heart stopper ever happened to anyone else? - tonyptony 16:04:49 07/24/14 (10)

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