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Use of a splint when changing cantilever and stylus

There’s a thread on another forum claiming that a well-known cartridge repair person sometimes uses an internal brass splint to join a new cantilever to the stub of the old one. Participants are horrified by this as it is said to ruin the sound of the cartridge. On the other hand, this repair person has an excellent reputation, and I have been delighted with work done. I don’t think there is any benefit in naming names and casting aspersions, so I shall not.

Is this a common method of attaching a new cantilever, and if so is there a better splint material to use?

dogberry

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lewm
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I agree that it seems a bad idea to use the brass insert.  It is also interesting that most customers of the anonymous retipper are nevertheless happy with the results, or so we are told.  That's a conundrum or testimony to the value of subjective judgements in this hobby or an example of expectation bias, or all 3.

lewm
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A setup for infection. (ID sub specialist here).

what do other retippers do when they install a cantilever cum stylus?

lewm
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So the idea is he aligns the old and new cantilevers end to end then bridges the joint with a brass splint, in the sense of a splint used to promote healing of a broken bone? Why brass when one could use a rod made of some typical cantilever metal, like aluminum, boron, titanium, etc?

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