Kenwood L07D antiskating

The anti-skate weight is not a simple weight on a thread, as in most tonearms that use such an AS device; it has a weight on one end of a nylon thread, and on the other end is a cylinder with a hole on one end that has to engage a tiny post located in a recessed area that can be found on the inner aspect of the vertical tower. The cylinder sits on the post; the thread winds around the dual pulley you can see on your tonearm, and the weight at the other end hangs in the breeze. A good machinist can make one for you, but you need to know the parameters. You might start by finding the post or prong to which I am referring, on the tonearm body. Also, you can get a lot of help from the L07D manual, which includes info on the tonearm, and you might do a search on the L07J tonearm itself. It is popular to diss the tonearm, but I think it's really quite good, in the class with the better M-S tonearms that bring big bucks. The "problem" with the tonearm is the wiring scheme between cartridge and preamp. Bypassing that is easy.

Dear In_shore, You are certainly entitled to do what you want, but I would never put Rollerblocks under any turntable. I don't want movement of the chassis in the horizontal plane.

I don't think there is any risk to your cartridge. I am concerned that you have a rotating mass, in the form of the platter assembly. If that mass is not perfectly centered with respect to the rollerblocks, then I wonder if there is a tendency for the entire tt to want to counter-rotate in a circular fashion, with the true center of mass as its center. The entire plinth is designed and built to prevent that, and here we add a modification that defeats the purpose. I doubt it's a big problem, and since I am only theorizing, I could be wrong, and it may be no problem at all.

How about now, Dave?
I did not know or I forgot you wanted this.
Stand by.

I am going nuts myself with re-mounting the tonearm on my own L07D. I took it out of its mount in order to re-wire it, which never got done either. Having given up on that, when I tried to re-install it, it now seems that the locking mechanism for the vertical shaft on the tonearm proper will not expand sufficiently to admit the vertical shaft loosely enough so it can then be cranked down to set VTA. The locking mechanism seems to be at max diameter, yet still the tonearm hangs up. I never had this problem with my other L07D. I am thinking of maybe greasing the shaft. I don't know what else to do at this point or why it was fitted fine when I bought this thing.

Yep, that's what I finally did. But cranking it up and down to adjust VTA, with the collet "loose", is not at all like what it was with my previous L07D. Ironically, I bought this second one because it was sooooo new looking, quite minty. And sold my old one. It works OK, but I am not happy with the feel of it; it must be putting stress on the gears when I have to crank it down or up using the outer wheel, rather than the little crank wheel.