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Audioquest PT Arm Damping Fluid

Hello all,
I've searched in vain to try to find some info, about viscosity weight fluid for the AQ Damping Trough.
No luck.

Turntable Basics lists four, and this confuses even further. Light (10,000cSt) Medium (30,000cSt) Heavy (100,000cSt) and an Ultra-Heavy (600,000cSt) for Monopivot Arms.

I'm leaning towards lighter might be better, and perhaps buy the light and/or the medium weight fluids?
Thanks, Mark
markd51

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pryso
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Mark, this may be too obvious but have you contacted AQ?

If they could not help, you might try Sumiko. Their Premier arms (long discontinued) came from the same OEM. I have a FT-3 and while the weight/type of damping fluid is not specified, instructions say to experiment with the amount of fluid to achieve proper damping.

If this too fails, I would contact Jelco in Japan, the OEM.

Good luck.
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