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.
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.
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
well i’m going to try and replace the entire tonearm base as you recommended. in addition, i will be receiving the piece next week after winning it on ebay.
i have a question though, what can i do with my old tonearm base? i was thinking of reselling it on ebay for like $10 usd / free shipping just so hopefully the one purchasing it will know how to go through the trouble of fixing it and then sell it back on the market for a profit. i think that individual would be doing a favor towards keeping the product alive.
