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Looking For Protractor For Well Tempered Reference Tone Arm

Looking for the overhang and alignment protractor for the Well Tempered arm that comes on the Reference table, I think it may have been used for other tables in their line. 

When I measure spindle to pivot I come up with 230 mm, and I have come across one other person who says that Wally Malewicz came up with 233 mm for this arm. But I cannot find any info from a Well Tempered page or site that can confirm this info. The head shell in this arm is not slotted so you accept the factory offset, much like you do on a SME IV/V. 

If I had the distance needed I suppose I could have Accutrak make me one. Or I could experiment and print out a Conrad H arc protractor, although I would have to accept his null points. 

Not sure if there are other good options. I believe Vinyl Engine has a down load, but as I understand it its for the arm with 220 m length. 

Any Well Tempered Reference or Classic owners who have worked through this situation? Any info you can pass on would be greatly appreciated. 
neonknight

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cleeds
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yogiboy
I submit that any differences in distortion due to sub-optimum arcs and deviations from the two null points and where they are located (those peaks in distortion) are masked several times over by distortion imposed by my tubed gear and my loudspeakers.
If you say the distortion of your tubed gear and loudspeakers mask the distortion of a misaligned phono cartridge, I have no reason to doubt you. But that doesn't mean that distortion from the misaligned cartridge would be insignificant in all systems.
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