Are you using a record clamp? Do you still have the foam disc that goes under the vinyl at the spindle? If not, see if it still skips without the record clamp.
Record skips near the innermost grooves
I have a Vpi hw-19 mk2 w/ an sme 309 & a Grado gold. The problem is this set-up wants to skip near the very end of all l.p's...near the innermost grooves.....Any suggestion's for a cure out there? Tracking force is 1.5 to 1.75 & I have adjusted the anti skate to different setting & nothing seems to help