Lost stylus seeking similar experience

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. 

https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/cartridges/styli-accessories/a-t-moving-coil-exchange-program

Depends on what solvent is in LAST. Epoxy is pretty impervious to most.

@faustuss 

that's it, I sent AT an email, sent it in, they sold me a new AT33PTG/II for $235. A bit less that half price at the time.