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RE: Cantilever not aligned straight

C_Z: Alrighty then, for the Nagaoka, make yourself a little tool you can slip between the cantilever and the outer tube and which you can prod a part of the rubber suspension with. Worth a try, and has worked for me to realign an Ortofon 320 cantilever. You could make such a thingy for example out of a drinking straw.

Well, and on the AT91 the cantilever assmbly isn't fixed by screw, but rather by rivet, so it's more difficult to rotate the damper ring. Anyway, what you need to do there is to independently rotate the damper ring, until you find a position at which the cantilever points straight ahead again. I do that holding the needle in one hand, so I can use one fingernail to block the magnet holder from rotating with the damper ring - and to rotate that ring I use the flank of the tip of a wooden toothpick, rubbing that along the outside of the ring.

I usually do that without opening the so-called (by AT) "compliance adjustment screw", even on the needles that sport it, 'cause while that makes rotating the damper ring more difficult, one avoids the problem of restoring the original tension between the front and the back part of the cantilever assembly - with the latter basically just being a metal shell around the "flexible filament" that connects the back and the front part of the cantilever assembly.

Can't comment on the Shelter, though - as I'm not familiar with the exact needle design of that. But I wouldn't suggest you to work on an MC anyway (or at least definitely not for a start), because these are pretty fragile.

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini


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