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Lint on my cart

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Posted on June 16, 2012 at 16:16:46
kenvab
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 I have a question about lint on my Denon 103. No matter how clean my albums are (I am anal about cleaning them)I always have a clump of lint on the Denon, on my other table I have a Grado Ref Sonata 1 and I do not have this problem, why is this and how do I cure the problem short of tossing the Denon. Thanks

 

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Have you been playing any Aaron Navel records?, posted on June 16, 2012 at 17:33:53
1973shovel
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 It would seem the Denon's plastic body is picking up a static charge. The "lint" could be dust the cartridge is attracting out of the air, rather than picking it up off your records. Obviously, the Grado's wood body wouldn't have the same issue.

Have you tried using a Zerostat on your records?

 

RE: Have you been playing any Aaron Navel records?, posted on June 16, 2012 at 17:43:09
amioutaline?
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 Now that's funny!

 

RE: Have you been playing any Aaron Navel records?, posted on June 17, 2012 at 02:42:17
Moko
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 That's funny I was only talking about this yesterday, my 103 seems to love picking up stuff as well, but I don't think its the body thats doing it because mine has an aluminuim MIDAS body fitted to it and its still doing it so does anyone have any other suggestions?

 

RE: Have you been playing any Aaron Navel records?, posted on June 17, 2012 at 11:25:09
airheadair
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 Van den Hul warns that this might mean that your cartridge is worn out enough to be damaging your records: the "lint" is scraped up vinyl. I've ordered a new cartridge because I'm seeing the same thing.

 

RE: Have you been playing any Aaron Navel records?, posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:18:29
kenvab
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 Thanks for the reply but the 103 is only 6 months old with about 60-75 hours of use on it. This is driving me nuts

 

RE: Lint on my cart , posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:31:37
SgreenP@MSN.com
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 Dont worry about it. Take a small piece of Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, hotwax it onto a quarter, (the quarter stabilizes the light foam on the record) and dip your stylus into it after every record or so.

 

RE: Lint on my cart , posted on June 18, 2012 at 02:24:49
Moko
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 That's exactly what I do already, but it doesn't answer the fundamental question concerning wether the DL103 has some speacial ability to find fluff on very clean records.

 

RE: Have you been playing any Aaron Navel records?, posted on June 19, 2012 at 21:28:42
WOStantonCS100
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 That turned out to be the case with one of my linear contact AT carts. When I replaced the stylus assembly, the "lint" problem (vinyl groove wall damage) stopped.

I have, since then, purchased a microscope!! ;-)

I have also noticed that some platter/record mat combinations are real good at attracting dust. And, some records (even ones just cleaned) are real good at pulling that dust from the mat to themselves. A Zerostat (or other such static treatment) sounds like a good idea to me once the stylus is checked out.

 

RE: Lint on my cart , posted on July 7, 2012 at 10:19:41
kenvab
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Location: Tidewater, Virginia
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 Just an update on my "lint" problem with my dl-103. It seems that my tonearm bearings had gotten stiff and the tone arm was dragging, I took that TT out of service and reinstalled the 103 on another table and what do you know, NO LINT. I guess it wasn't lint but vinyl shavings, hope I didn't do too much damage.

 

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