I made a rookie mistake, don't do this

I have strongly suggested in posts made. 

That a Cart' will become very contaminated with Airborne Particulate and it would be best to have the Cart' professionally cleaned at least once during its usage life to keep the Cart's function close to optimised. 

A Styli Condition check  and thorough clean, will be part of such a Cleaning Service being carried out.

My observation is that 200 Hours is a point where contaminant becomes visible by the eye, as a mass collection, by 400 Hours, there is substantial collection that is built up on the critical interfaces, that can only be described as impeding to the parts needing total freedom of movement as per the design.

Metal Particulate is known to collect on a  Coil Winding and  successfully short the coil. causing a channel to fail. 

In Good Form Styli and Cleanliness within the Cart',

are conditions that reward the user substantially. 

pindac

I simply cannot understand any TT, especially an expensive one with a precise tonearm and pricey cartridge being sold without, and between use hanging around without a dust cover.

Makes absolutely no sense to me.

@elliottbnewcombjr The search to discover exactly what I am referring to is extremely easy to discover.

How about the even stranger phenomenon of Dampers looking like one half has been gnawed away, with the description of a cause being UV Damage.

Cart's are extremely Fragile, certain Parts used are requiring the conditions encountered in the real world to be very sympathetic to their needs.

Once a Cart' is released into the real World, the Cart' is met with a whole new frontier to perform in.

A Dust Cover in many cases is a Band Aid on a Gaping Wound, some in the know, would suggest a dehumidifier is the very basic of preparations to be in place for a space where a Cart' is to be used.

We are all bound by our experiences, and even more bound by our surmising creating deficiency in attaining knowledge through experience.

pindac

You take things to perfection, ultimate solutions, that’s great, for you and others.

I go so far, then stop, not enjoying pursuing perfection any more.

Three fundamentals I simply do not understand people not having.

1. TT, Have a Dust Cover. Expensive/Precise Equipment exposed to airborne .... no way.

2. Tubes: Have a Tube Tester (basic, not advanced unless desired). Uninformed, blindly searching/thinking perhaps a bad tube .... no way. Members and yourself wildly guessing, jumping around like a cat on a hot tin roof, no no no.

******Driving along, trash, driveway sale, thrift store: see a discarded thingy with tubes, yank em, the tubes are very likely good, you can test them when you get home or later if you need one. Using a used tube gets the music playing while you look for new ones at a good price.**** Don’t forget: many tubes last 10,000 hours, so a used one that tests good ....

i.e. I just tested all my tubes friday (I test them 2-3 times a year). matched sets still matched? anything weak?

my mx110z tube tuner/preamp: found a 6au6 with a short. Had none in my collection of new/used tubes. Checked/yanked good tested used one out of a Fisher 500c I will be selling.

mx110z has 17 tubes, I don’t know what it was doing, I didn’t hear anything wrong, or different after I replaced it, but it does something. I very rarely use the Tuner, I suspect it is in the tuner section, who knows? My Fisher 500C uses 1; this uses 3, They are not expensive (now) I am going to buy 4 now for the future. And: test them when I receive them! Test any tube you buy, especially ’matched’ sets.

3. SACD/CD/DVD Player: Have a Lens Cleaner, try it 1st! I have ’fixed’ many of my and friend’s players over the years. Same thing in the VCR/Cassette era, have a head cleaner., it’s the 1st thing to check.

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there’s others, but these always leap out of my brain when members have related problems and lack/skip the fundamentals.