Have you ever broken the needle?


I just purchased a Wilson Benesch cartridge (used) at a very reduced price. However when mounting this georgeous piece of equipment the pliers slipped when attaching the wires thus pushing the housing into the #$%&%!* needle and snappinig it clean off. Right there my heart quit pumping. Maybe CD's are the best way to go. Tell me your sob story. I need a good laugh.
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Much like Albert, one of our cats had taken up mountain climbing, and was perched high on an adjoining precipice (shelf). Apparently, he suddenly realized mountain-climbing is not yet an olympic sport and decided to switch to the vault. Or he became mesmerized by the spinning label (perhaps it translates to "Paul is dead" in cat-speak) and decided to go in for a closer look. In any event, one leap, and he stuck the landing perfectly on top of the platter/album ... perhaps a 9.7 for artistic impression (amazingly did not damage the album), but he lost points for technical merit, as the force of his landing broke the cantilever.

On the bright side, add a high-torque motor and a little super glue on the paws and you have the "Kitty-clamp" organic, all-natural record clamp ... anyone interested in one?
I trust there was some separation between those two events? Or I'm never offering to change discs at your house ;-)