The saying is ''seen is believing''. Well look at coils as made by Jan Allaerts cartridge. He does his own coils with very thin gold wire. If I was forced to do such work I would prefer to kill myself. No wonder that many rettiper hate to even think about. So Northwest ask 700 GBP for coils with ''thiker wire'' because his ''lathe'' can't manage ''thin kind''. By German EMT they asked 1200 euro's for new coils for Shiraz an modify TSD 15. One can get the ''whole TSD 15 for this kind of money. So for all who are not related to Rockefelers or Russian oliegarch interesting info. |
Dear @nandric and friends: Joseph Long that I linked does the coil rewiring too. He post in Agon time to time and is moniker is:
Btw, I think he has not only competitive prices and quality but even lower that all the other re-tippers shared in this thread. Thank’s nandric.
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mijostyn, Your assertion is that manufacturer ''do rettipinig.'' either of ''stylus only '' and/or cantillever/stylus combo as they buy by either Ogura or Namiki. But logic ''say'' that if the assertions are not true than deduced statemnet from them can't also be true. Your further assertion is that THOSE are much better than those by the so called ''repair services''.. Both your assertions are ,say, problematic. One can get an ''new generator'' with cantilever/stylus included which than is gluead in ''your cart body''. Those are known as ''exchange'' possibility. However those are pretty expensive. No wonder that many try the ''conventional rettipers''. But they seldom do ''stylus alone'' retip.. The complete cantiver/stylus combo is much more easy to do: gluiing the combo in the joint pipe on which back side coils are fastened. Besides this kind of retip is twice as expensive (+/-). That is why I was thankful to Raul because Expert styus in UK is not anymore attractive for E.U. people ( ''taxes'') If the retipper which Raul mentioned is in your country you should try. Raul is the best info provider I know. I even purchased all MM carts which he recommended despite the fact that I use ony MC's.
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But sometimes, as in the case of my 2 Transfiguration carts, they are no longer made and an aftermarket retip is necessary. Soundsmith did one for me and it sounds excellent. VAS did another one, but I haven’t installed it yet. Too bad Transfiguration went under. They were really nice cartridges. Even the less expensive ones. |
@rauliruegas, @nandric After having looked at a bunch of styluses I have come to the conclusion that the styluses of the most expensive cartridges are being hand selected. The diamonds appear to be cleaner and have better shape and polish. This is still a relatively very small selection but I can not ignore what I see. The only place I am sending my cartridges to be retipped or replaced is to the original manufacturer. |
Thanks Raul. Searching for relevant information is not easy. I was ''spoiled'' by my friend Axel Schurholz so I had no worry about ''which retipper''. Alas he passed away so I was forced to search for some other. So I deed find ''Expert Stylus'' in UK but when they left the Union they also lost ''competitive prices''. In E.U. one need to count VAT ( +/- 20% + import duty of 13 % ) as added cost by rettiping. So the circumstance where the retipper lives become relevant info. As is the case with your carts collection you also have ''extended'' knowledge about reapair services. In this sense you can help other in both ways. (grin)
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@nandric good to " see " you again. Welcome.
This re-tipper is recommended too:
Joseph Long : Cartridge_Retipping@outlook.com
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''It depends...'' . There are not many ''retippers'' who do ''stylus only retip''. The best in my opinion is ''Expert stylus'' in UK. Alas they left the Union so one need to pay their VAT and your own import duty. Much more easy is the ''whole retip'' with cantilever included . But this is more expensive. I would never again do this ''whole retip'' . Certainly not with my ''exotic'' cantilevers.
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