mandarin
pfm Member
Hi again
I've been playing records now for 4 days! and 4 brand new records were skipping. Also when I let the tonearm descend with the dampened lever thingy, it would move toward the outer perimeter.
I tried everything I could think of. Moving the anti skate weight to another groove. Finally took it off and noticed it did the same thing!
So then I realised that the guy in the shop that set the deck up for me, tightened quite rigorously all the bearing screws both horizontal and vertical, because the arm was slack (transport?). So I played around with those for a while, slackened a little without any feeling of looseness and sure enough, the descent/ascent went without any movement any more !!! yay! (anti-skate weight back in place, on full recommended force too)
But... back to the skipping records. This happened on too many new records for it to be coincidence. Different companies, different artists, different countries even. So I slackened the bearing screw yet further by turning like a millimeter. Still no obvious looseness, but I think I seem to have stopped this skipping!!!!
Does it sound like I'm doing the right thing? It's still early days yet. I'd appreciate your more learned opinions.
Thanks !
(edited to be a bit more clear)
I've been playing records now for 4 days! and 4 brand new records were skipping. Also when I let the tonearm descend with the dampened lever thingy, it would move toward the outer perimeter.
I tried everything I could think of. Moving the anti skate weight to another groove. Finally took it off and noticed it did the same thing!
So then I realised that the guy in the shop that set the deck up for me, tightened quite rigorously all the bearing screws both horizontal and vertical, because the arm was slack (transport?). So I played around with those for a while, slackened a little without any feeling of looseness and sure enough, the descent/ascent went without any movement any more !!! yay! (anti-skate weight back in place, on full recommended force too)
But... back to the skipping records. This happened on too many new records for it to be coincidence. Different companies, different artists, different countries even. So I slackened the bearing screw yet further by turning like a millimeter. Still no obvious looseness, but I think I seem to have stopped this skipping!!!!
Does it sound like I'm doing the right thing? It's still early days yet. I'd appreciate your more learned opinions.
Thanks !
(edited to be a bit more clear)