Help with VPI Mk 19 Jr.

I guess I am just not getting it but the template on the website is not like the template in the dvd which rests perpendicular to the platter and shows the various waypoint the cartridge should meet while traveling the path of the tonearm arc. The template on the website has the spindle hole impossibly close to the tonearm?

Just clueless here, I guess.

I have a stock HW-19 jr and it is a great table. I have a premier FT-3 arm on mine. I think you are looking for the stylus alignment gage to set the overhang. Check out this site http://www.enjoythemusic.com/freestuff.htm
You can print out a free gage.
Once you have gotten your table set up and running make a sandbox and do a diy SAMA. The DIY SAMA will make that table so much better.

That's more like it. Thanks.

Now what the heck is a sandbox, or SAMA?

-Clueless

A sand box is just that. Make a box with a open top large enough to place the table on, I made mine out of maple and fill it with sand, or lead or both. Then place a platform on top of the sand. See this link
http://www.jimmyneutron.org/Turntable%20sandbox.htm

A SAMA is a Stand alone Motor Assembly. Google it, You can find some designs at Audio asylum or see mine at Decware.com/ forums/ vinyl/ diy sama for vpi I posted it back on 03/06/06.
This mod just made the table shine. Try it it's cheap to do and if you don't like it it doesn't nake any changes to the turntable that can't be undone.
John