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RE: LOL!!!!

Posted by unclestu (D) on January 25, 2015 at 15:56:25

In Reply to: RE: LOL!!!! posted by markinuk on January 25, 2015 at 14:58:54:

Namiki was the largest cantilever styli maker in Japan. They could make sapphire/ruby cantilevers and even made the diamond ones for Dynavector , IIRC

Ernst Benz dominated the European scene. IIRC, he actually designed the laser cutters to cut and shape the diamond styli. He also pioneered the use of UV cured glues for adhering the styli. Prior Styli were mounted in a socket, or had a small hole milled out in the cantilever end for the stylus to be inserted.

Benz, maybe in response to the EPA requirements simply flattened the cantilever end and mounted the stylus against the flat building up a small fillet of glue around the base of the styli. The claim was that the stylus then made a more intimate contact with the cantilever rather than floating around in a sleeve of glue.

Ernst was a very pleasant to gentleman to speak to, He once laughingly told me he could carry a palm full of naked styli worth a million dollars....He once made more money supplying OEM styli rather building his own cartridges

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