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Cardas Upgrade - Arm Balancing Problem

Hey guys, I just upgraded my RB300 arm wires to the Cardas wire set-up and installed a new cartridge on it all at the same time. The cartridge is the Goldring 1042.

When I balance the arm while the tracking is set to zero the arm floats all the way up. The counter weight (standard) is set all the way to the "front part" of the rear stub and the arm floats all the way up to its highest position.

Is the Goldring that light, or is the wire that much lighter than the standard wire? Did the guy who did the upgrade screw up some kind of bearing?

BLR
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blrad22
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How about if I were to remove the spring from the tracking adjuster and adjust the tracking force using a gauge and the counter-weight?
blrad22
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I know what happened now guys. Ispoke to a few people, and what I found out is:

The guy who did the wire upgrade most likely did not set the tracking force to 3 before disassembling the arm. Therefore, the spring came out of position and was now not optimal. I brought it back to the same guy who did the upgrade in the first place and he removed the spring and set the weight using the counterweight, which is what he suggested to me in the first place.

Zaikesman, the spring in the arm will always add a little upforce, if you remove the spring the arm will not float regardless where the counterweight is or how light the cartridge is. I too did not know this. Origin live suggests setting the tracking force to 3 (which will act like there is no spring at all) and adjust the tracking force using just the counter weight. Somepeople say go one better and remove the spring completely as it adds resonance.

If anybody has any suggestions as to the accuracy of what I have wrote above, I would greatly appreciate it. TWL comes to mind, where are you.

BLR
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