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In Reply to: RE: Stylus Gunk posted by Joe Backer on January 15, 2017 at 11:33:15
I remember Linn advising users of the AT ultrasonic thingie back in its heyday, that in order to get it to work properly you needed to switch it on and leave the stylus on the pad for a minute or longer.Many stylus cleaners (including SPT) contain a lubricant. It may well be that over a period of time sufficient of it migrates up the stylus to form an accretion at the top. Maybe this is the cause of your problem? Or is the use of SPT only recent?
I recommend Disc Doctor's stylus cleaner as it has no additives such as lubricants (neither does his record cleaning fluid, again unlike some). His policy is to get the dirt off and leave the groove and stylus perfectly clean. To aid this the fluid comes with a stiff brush, used dry, to wipe off the coating that may have been formed by the use of other cleaners ( or at least did come with it - I haven't bought a replacement bottle for a few years). It is stiff enough to be recommended for that initial cleaning only.
I would try this and then quite a few passes with a softer stylus brush (there are now carbon fibre ones available) with the fluid. As always try not to get any on the cantilever.
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Actually, Linn recommended the striking pad on a book of matches. No lie.
" Linn recommended the striking pad on a book of matches"
They did indeed. However this was until they discovered " green stuff". This was a sheet of green pastic one side of which was coated with a metallic oxide, the latter acting as a very fine abrasive.
The point of all of these was the same, whether it be the long running of the AT ultrasonic cleaner, the match striking pad or the green stuff. All related to their discovery that in practice some crud that ended up on the stylus became virtually fused to it and was too difficult to remove with the conventional brush and liquid approach of the time. As the OP seems to have found out for himself.
In retrospect it seems no more extreme than using Magic Eraser, a block of melamine foam abrasive, for this purpose, .
The difference between Magic Eraser and both match striking pads / green stuff is that you can actually dip your stylus completely into the abrasive material with the Eraser. The others will only ever contact the very tippity-tip of the stylus...that ain't cleaning anything!
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