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OK now that I've sort of worked out how to post pictures, here are some of lifters I've made. First up I unashamedly admit to stealing the idea from a picture I saw on the net of [I think] an expressimo lifter made out of some kind of metal. The first one is a prototype that worked fine, believe it or not.. I dont know where the solder counterweight went I probably used it to solder something. The second one I made is now on a mate's TD160 and it also works fine. It would be the one to make.. the "stoppers" are simply pieces of bamboo meat skewers drilled in and snipped off to the appropriate length... I think it's action is self explanatory from the pics. I filed the threads from the brass bolt that goes through the pivot arm and self tapped it into a drilled hole into the post. The third one is me trying to be stylish..
Anyway the only things to get right are placement on the tt or armboard; the tonearm has to connect with the pivotting arm of the lifter when it's in the dead wax.. this is trial and error by moving the lifter around [I attach them with double sided tape] or fine tuning by adding tiny bits of poster tape to the tone arm or the pivot arm; height of the lifter relative to the tonearm [not quite so critical], and the amount of solder wrapped around the pivot arm to support the tonearm.
The only times these lifters have failed is when the "infinity groove" on a particular record is too close to the label and the arm cant connect [extremely rare]; when the arm lifts before the record has finished [also very rare]; or when I forget to reset it [not quite so rare!].
I've been using these for over four years now and cant imagine not having one.. so have a go: they're simple to make, cost nothing and will change your listening world!!
Cheers, Andy
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Perhaps I don't understand the pictures, but from the third one down from the top it looks like you will run into the device well before you get to the run-out groove if you don't reset it. I guess it would keep jumping the groove again and again in this situation, but maybe I have it wrong.Joe
Yeah sorry I didn't post a picture of it set to go.. this is what it looks like before the arm hits it
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I have read where the arm would flop off but I think you beat that with the peg.
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