changing tonearm on 1200 mk2 first time

[cutflow]

i tested if my tone arm is in good condition by following the advice in the video below. it turns out that i've a bad tone arm because it does not move to the middle when i change the anti-skate from 3 to 0. prior to all of that, the stylus was skipping every time no matter what i set the counter weight. talking about counter weight, does anyone know what setting pro dj's put their counter weight on?

does anyone know a good site to get mk2 parts? and what i should order. thanks in advance.

[HighTopFade]

If you're looking for just a tonearm, get one here. I received mine and it's all good.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Technics...item1c26357109

[dripstep]

I set my tonearm at 2.5 for mixing and 3 for scratching, but I'm not a pro DJ.

[Patch]

Inside your tone arm assembly is a really weak spring that touches a vertical bar in the base of the tonearm.

It is this weak spring that applies the anti-skating force. At 0, the spring doesn't touch the vertical bar, but as you increase the anti-skate dial towards 3, the spring gradualy applies more force to the vertical bar.

You have to completely disassemble to tone arm to get to the spring. It is NOT an easy job.

A more expensive, but much EASIER ix, is to buy a complete tone arm assembly incl. base. They're easy to swap out.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Technics-s...ht_1836wt_1170

[cutflow]

Inside your tone arm assembly is a really weak spring that touches a vertical bar in the base of the tonearm.

It is this weak spring that applies the anti-skating force. At 0, the spring doesn't touch the vertical bar, but as you increase the anti-skate dial towards 3, the spring gradualy applies more force to the vertical bar.

You have to completely disassemble to tone arm to get to the spring. It is NOT an easy job.

A more expensive, but much EASIER ix, is to buy a complete tone arm assembly incl. base. They're easy to swap out.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Technics-s...ht_1836wt_1170

does buying the tone arm base also fixes the anti-skating problem that i'm having as well?

[Patch]

Yeah, 'cos you'll get a whole new anti-skate mechanism already attached to the base of the tone arm assembly.

[SlvrDragon50]

Okay. Mine defnitely doesn't do that lol.

[cutflow]

Yeah, 'cos you'll get a whole new anti-skate mechanism already attached to the base of the tone arm assembly.

what can i do with my old tonearm base?

what i don't want to do, is throw it out. I rather keep it and learn to fix, but if that is complex then i would just pay to get it fixed since i value my time a lot. what do you think patch

[LoopCat]

It's not just the spring it can also be the bearings in the tone arm gimble.

[cutflow]

It's not just the spring it can also be the bearings in the tone arm gimble.

im not sure what your talking about because i'm a complete newb when it comes to repairing a 1200. could you please provide a video of some sort =D

thanks in advance / knowledge is power