Sorry for bring this thread back but I've just bought one of these and I'm very confused about how to use it correctly. My turntable is a PLX-1000. My understanding is that I place the gauge on the spindle, line up the spike with the pivot point, lock everything in place, tape the gauge down so it can't move and then adjust the cart so the stylus rests in the crosshairs of step 1 which is overhang. After that you adjust the angle of the cart to align it square with the grid on step 2 while also making sure the stylus rests in the crosshairs of step 2. Then make sure the cart also aligns with the grid and stylus rests in the crosshairs on step 3 and you're done. The problem I'm having here is no matter what I do, when overhang is set correctly to the gauge I can't get the stylus to rest in the crosshairs of step 2 and 3. It's usually slightly behind on step 2 and slightly in front in step 3. SO how do I rectify this? I have tried and tried and can't get it work. Isn't rotating the gauge "cheating" as you're aligning the gauge with the stylus and not the other way around?
Question about how to use Feickert Protractor
Greetings from Oregon,
I'd been following the discussion about the Feickert Protractor and finally decided to order one. I'd been using the GeoDisc for setup, and I wanted something a little more precise. I have been working with the protractor this evening, and the directions on the second step are not entirely clear. The first step is easy enough - set up the protractor with the gauge pin over the pivot point (easy to find on a unipivot) and adjust the cartridge to the bulls eye in the geometry you want (I'm using Baerwald). Moving to step two things become unclear
My first question:
Step 2 says "..we don't need to aim over the pivot point anymore. Please rotate the Protractor so that the stylus tip touches the cross hairs at step 2." The picture shows the stylus sitting right on the target. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's not physically possible. The cross hairs at step 2 are a fixed distance away from the cross hairs at step 1. There's no way to rotate the protractor to make this happen. You have to move the tonearm over to step 2, right?
My second question:
Assuming that I'm moving the tonearm over to the lines for step 2 on the protractor, should the stylus fall right on the bullseye as it did at step 1? Mine doesn't, but I assume there's nothing I can do about it without having the whole tonearm assembly remounted. It's a VPI Prime, which doesn't appear to have any adjustments for pivot-to-spindle distance.
I hope the questions make sense, as it's not easy to explain without having the protractor in front of you. Hopefully, someone with experience using the Fleickert can help.
Thanks for any advice!
Scott
I'd been following the discussion about the Feickert Protractor and finally decided to order one. I'd been using the GeoDisc for setup, and I wanted something a little more precise. I have been working with the protractor this evening, and the directions on the second step are not entirely clear. The first step is easy enough - set up the protractor with the gauge pin over the pivot point (easy to find on a unipivot) and adjust the cartridge to the bulls eye in the geometry you want (I'm using Baerwald). Moving to step two things become unclear
My first question:
Step 2 says "..we don't need to aim over the pivot point anymore. Please rotate the Protractor so that the stylus tip touches the cross hairs at step 2." The picture shows the stylus sitting right on the target. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's not physically possible. The cross hairs at step 2 are a fixed distance away from the cross hairs at step 1. There's no way to rotate the protractor to make this happen. You have to move the tonearm over to step 2, right?
My second question:
Assuming that I'm moving the tonearm over to the lines for step 2 on the protractor, should the stylus fall right on the bullseye as it did at step 1? Mine doesn't, but I assume there's nothing I can do about it without having the whole tonearm assembly remounted. It's a VPI Prime, which doesn't appear to have any adjustments for pivot-to-spindle distance.
I hope the questions make sense, as it's not easy to explain without having the protractor in front of you. Hopefully, someone with experience using the Fleickert can help.
Thanks for any advice!
Scott