Cantilever Question & Trying to post a picture of my cartridge here to get help...how can I post pictures in my message?

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Hello,
I have a couple of pictures of my cartridge I was attempting to post on here in order to get some advice for the more experienced inmates as to whether or not I had bent my cantilever. I really do not think I have, and it looks totally fine, but I tend to be a paranoid lad sometimes.
In brief, I had just picked up an LP from a shop and it needed a deep cleaning. I put it on my Nitty Gritty RCM and gave it an initial cleaning, but by the end of the first song I could see that it needed a deeper cleaning and perhaps several repeats, and I try to be careful about keeping my stylus clean and my records too. I figure that's cheaper than wearing out a cartridge.
Anyways, there must have been some heavy duty dirt in those grooves because after only a couple of minutes I could noticeably see the junk on my stylus. So I cleaned off my stylus with the Extreme Phono stylus cleaner I used (and I had to repeat it several times).
I removed the stylus (Goldring 1022) from the cartridge to get a better look at it, and as I was holding it in one hand, the soft flesh of my index finger in the other lightly (and accidently) touched the cantilever. It wasn't snagged or hit with any force or anything, but of course I'm exceptionally talented at worrying. I put the stylus back onto the cartridge body and everything looks fine. I can see absolutely no perceivable change in the direction of the cantilever. It appears to be centered and totally fine, but I had taken a couple pictures to get some feedback and hopefully reassurance.
So...if anyone can offer advice without a picture I'm interested. Otherwise (for now and/or future reference), how do I post a picture in my messages here? And finally, what sort of stylus cleaner do the inmates far more experienced than myself recommend? I don't think the problem is the cleaner, as my Extreme Phono stuff seems to be working great and has for the past four years since I got into vinyl (I'm only 24). But even though that LP appeared to be cleaned up nicely, it was leaving some icky stuff behind and it took quite some time for me to feel ok about the stylus being clean again. And the final bit of information is that it seems to still have a little trace of something on it (like a single strand of lint or something) that isn't coming off.
Anyways, I really appreciate everyone here and the help I've always recieved from those with life experience and perhaps more importantly, vinyl experience :-) Help!!!!!

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Topic - Cantilever Question & Trying to post a picture of my cartridge here to get help...how can I post pictures in my message? - weaver_sean@hotmail.com 17:41:24 04/28/07 (7)

Thank You To Each and Everyone Who Helped Me Sort These Issues Out... - weaver_sean@hotmail.com 16:06:56 04/29/07 (0)

fyi: almost no one.... - analog guy 18:02:40 04/28/07 (4)

Thanks for the help...I have a picture link that works now... - weaver_sean@hotmail.com 18:17:54 04/28/07 (3)

Re: Thanks for the help...I have a picture link that works now... - Dimitry 18:35:52 04/28/07 (2)

Thanks for the help...I finally figured out Photobucket and have a pic in THIS message - weaver_sean@hotmail.com 18:47:07 04/28/07 (1)

i don't think... - analog guy 20:46:22 04/28/07 (0)

You will need to post your dital photos to a website such - HenryH 17:52:38 04/28/07 (0)

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