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| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice FYI: The air bearing and tone arm have been disassembled. A carbon fiber (now) & wood (later) arm tube w/slight modifications to the arm lift on back of the manifold , bass & lead counter weights for the arm , the bearing tube opened &... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice Oilmanmojo: As I awoke the medical motto "First Do No Harm", came to mind along with the following; An alternate route is to apply feather-weight damping compounds developed by GE as mentioned in earlier postings , uncaping the bearing tube, filli... | |
| vintage turntables? Chuck: Check out the Revolver TT offered on AG . What a great buy. Everything costs something ... Se Ya | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? I have been steaming for near a "deckade and 1/2" . The advice offered by AG'ers is the best I have viewed. Just keep in mind my Perfection works perfectly. A beautiful head of steam "tear shaped" without any attachments. The fewer the better atta... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice Oilmanmojo: You have highlighted a key question that must be answered in more detail. The alternate is to fill the sleeve with balsa. The tone-arm is different from the perspective that once sealed it should not swell. I have some ideas gleamed fr... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice 'Nollers : Following watching Jolie in "Wanted", I stopped at the local WoodCraft Store chatting with the store manager "EJ". We discussed the possibility to convert several metal parts on the Ari' into wood. I infrequently visit this place just s... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice Piedpiper: To be sure I understand: The modification suggested is to replace both the arm tube and tone-arm with balsa , rather than to uncap the arm tube to insert a snugg fitting balsa dowel inside the tube ,itself, then regluing the end cap. Sh... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? No it is defective , please return to the Walgreens for a replacement. This happens sometimes. Remember, Never use tap water , chemicals in that water can clog the steamer. Any short cut with water should affect the outcome. | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice Oilmanmojo : Thanks for the info. charlie | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice Piedpiper : Thanks. In regards to the motor issue , I aquired a complete motor , base and wall-wart. I will replace the wall-wart with a much better power supply.The motor unit is to be pluged into a line-controller so speed issues will not be a p... | |
| tt surface noise reduce or tolerate? A far better explanation would have been to focus on manufacturing defects. "Fail" was a short-cut term to denote a negative experience that that i used to "cross-bridge", as a reference for persons that have little or no experience with needle-di... | |
| tt surface noise reduce or tolerate? There are many reasons reasons Lps fail most having to do with the creation of the LP recording, far fewer after that. Too many newbeyee's are unware of the manufacturing thresholds that must be crossed before a "pure" recording is possible. It ta... | |
| Mapleshade Steamer Kit.....anyone? Dan ed : Thanks for the advice . I have yet to use the Magic Eraser to clean the stylas . I shall experiment with a clean Magic Eraser I have at home.For the record, my only concern with the Sf-227 is the fact it is so powerful. On "thin" LPs they... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? Doak: Thank you, thank you : For years I have been wageing this battle and its not easy. Besides the invested few within the industry hating me, I have to deal with those that want to take advantage of the fact I am giving away this information fo... | |
| tt surface noise reduce or tolerate? Radioheadoplayer: As many posts have already pointed out some noise is inherient with record playing. I have found, a significant amount can be eliminated by careful cleaning. A record cleaning machine(RCM) can do much to lessen noise especially i... |