Just one teeny, weeny thing: Back up the thread, Elliott recommended to set AS to equal VTF or some high percentage of VTF. With all respect to E, most agree that the AS force should be set to some small fraction of VTF. In another concurrent thread, you can read where Mijostyn has calculated that AS should be precisely 11% of VTF. I am not necessarily in agreement with his dogmatism on the subject, especially since he built a Rube Goldberg device to measure AS that none of the rest of us has, but I do agree that he is in the ballpark. (Wally make an AS measuring device, too.) There are a lot of ways to set AS, but what I do is to first listen to a representative LP without any AS. I typically hear distortion in the R channel with no AS. I then add AS in very tiny increments only until that distortion disappears. So you could say I do it by ear. But VTF = AS in magnitude is definitely too much AS.
One problem I have with tonearms that have a dial setting for AS, usually marked in numbers from 0 to 5, or something like that, is that we don't know what those numbers mean. The dial setting is typically found where AS is done magnetically. Do the numbers refer to "grams" of AS? Or are the numbers to be correlated with grams of VTF, where 2g of VTF is to correlate with setting the dial to 2. Because 2g of AS, which is applied at the pivot is not equal to 2g applied at the headshell. To me this is another reason to do it by ear.