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Technics SL1200 Cardas REWIRE Shielding

I am currently looking to rewire my tone arm. I know that cardas makes a nice litz wire for rewiring tonearms. I have a bit of a technical question. I am hoping to use a shielded wire and I was just curious how to connect the shield within the wand and tonearm assembly?

Does anyone know of a good source to get a spool of this wire, in either shielded or unshielded format?

I believe the wire has the following flow from inside out.
Litz->dilectric enamel-> 4 straight->1 shield for all 4->dilectric.

It sees as though if I had the left and right independently shielded then I would be able to connect to the cartridge as follows left signal left ground, right signal right ground. But since there is only one shield I am uncertain of how to do this properly. Some advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a million guys looking forward to hearing from you.
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johnnyb53
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Yeah. The metal arm tube is your shield. If I were rewiring a Technics arm and wanted to thread something through the wand with it, it would be vibration damping.

Lacking that, I wrapped teflon plumber's tape around the outside of the armtube.
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