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need help with nott horizon/rb250 setup (overhang)

I have the nottingham horizon with the rega rb250 arm and a dynavector karat 17d2 mk 2. It was originally setup by my dealer, but I moved and had to re-set it myself. Now I'm trying to do some adjusting and I'm running into a question.
In milimeters, what should the distance from the spindle to pivot point be? And what should the overhang be?
I've been reading alot of the archived posts on this topic (sadly none with the horizon) and it seems that for rega arms, 222mm is the ideal, but because of the shorter effective length, a number closer to 219 is suggested (apologies to original posters, I didn't keep notes on who said what, just what was said).
The horizon has one allen bolt that allows for pivoting of the arm base, but if I set it to be 219mm from pivot center to spindle, it puts the arm much too close to the edge of the record. For what would look to be a correct record to arm distance, the pivot point would be about 217mm from the spindle.
For tools, I'm using the clearaudio alignment gauge/1 point protractor, and I downloaded the enjoythemusic 2 point protractor.
I have tried to align the cartridge using the points, but the needle is so small, and my eyes and hands are not so reliable as they once were, so I would like to be sure that the pivotpoint/spindle distance and the overhang are correct before I start tweaking the cartridge's alignment in the headshell.
Anyone know what the measurements should be with a properly aligned Horizon/rb250?
Thanks for any help/suggestions.

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Topic - need help with nott horizon/rb250 setup (overhang) - imrer 16:56:43 10/30/04 (12)

Re: need help with nott horizon/rb250 setup (overhang) - kyle 23:03:19 10/31/04 (0)

Re: need help with nott horizon/rb250 setup (overhang) - Rob Doorack 08:37:32 10/31/04 (7)

Re: need help with nott horizon/rb250 setup (overhang) - imrer 10:57:05 10/31/04 (6)

Re: need help with nott horizon/rb250 setup (overhang) - Rob Doorack 12:19:42 10/31/04 (5)

d'oh (insert head slap here) - imrer 12:56:28 10/31/04 (4)

Re: d'oh (insert head slap here) - Rob Doorack 07:53:56 11/01/04 (3)

not picky - imrer 19:04:17 11/01/04 (2)

Re: not picky - Rob Doorack 07:53:55 11/02/04 (1)

Re: not picky - imrer 13:11:41 11/02/04 (0)

Re: need help with nott horizon/rb250 setup (overhang) - Eric H 23:42:45 10/30/04 (0)

Re: need help with nott horizon/rb250 setup (overhang) - Fred J 18:18:44 10/30/04 (1)

thanks, but ... - imrer 23:09:38 10/30/04 (0)

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