Lost stylus seeking similar experience

I never thought about warranty, just sent it to VAS for repair.  $450 is fair and VAS does first class work.  Faster than sending it to AT too.  No idea what caused it or where the diamond is either.  Steve at VAS it quite certain that Stylast attacked the adhesive.  I won't believe it unless I can discover a statistically significant incident rate of similar occurrences.  The stuff has been on the market too long with no discoverable history that I have found so far.

I've used STYLAST on many carts over the years.  Never an issue.  I was also one of the very first LAST dealers and sold a lot of it.  Never a complaint...

I bought a Supex 500 mc cartridge with a missing diamond. The cantilever and suspension is intact. It awaits a replacement diamond.

I believe Steve is correct, the adhesive got dissolved, the tip simply fell out.

It happened to me, on a rebuilt cantilever/stylus, one day the stylus was gone. I used liquid stylus cleaner frequently on all my cartridges then.

It happened to my friend's Benz Micro Ruby Wood, Steve was able to put a new MicroRidge in the existing hole in the cantilever, glue it, and put a warning not to use liquid stylus cleaner on it.

Steve just repaired another friend's Grace F9 Soundsmith replacement stylus and warned my friend not to use liquid stylus cleaner.

Had a stylus fall off midway through an Lp. 
Dynavector XX2MKII that I had bought from a guy in Asia who used to list cartridges often here on Audiogon. It only had 100 hrs playing and no warranty so just did the factory rebuild and lesson learned.