Weight setting on 1200 & 500-ALII?

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Posted by Widget on Sep-05-2003 20:47:

Weight setting on 1200 & 500-ALII?

What do people have their settings (weight wise and anti-skate) for:

SL1200 Mk2
Stanton 500-ALII cartridges?

I'm using just below 2.5 on my weight and can't put the weight on anymore, even if I wanted to. anti-skate is 0.

Posted by JohnSmith on Sep-06-2003 00:48:

correct me if i am wrong, but if your weight is just under 2.5 you should have lots of room left to go before you can't put more weight on.

turn the weight till the tonearm balances out level, then set the number ring only to 0. then you will have it reset properly.

Put the weight as low as you can, without having it skip when cueing, and you are good to go.

Posted by Widget on Sep-08-2003 16:37:

quote:
Originally posted by JohnSmith
correct me if i am wrong, but if your weight is just under 2.5 you should have lots of room left to go before you can't put more weight on.

That's what I thought as well, but it doesn't seem to happen for me.

quote:
turn the weight till the tonearm balances out level, then set the number ring only to 0. then you will have it reset properly.

Put the weight as low as you can, without having it skip when cueing, and you are good to go.

Yep, yep, I know how to set it up and do so according to that method. I've no idea why my 2.5 is so far along...

Posted by dcougar99 on Sep-08-2003 17:46:

You may have the weight backwards. Try to take it all the way off then turn it around... screw it back on with the #'s torward you. Then set the weight to 0 with the tonearm level. This mite help... i know some others who had the same issue.

Posted by dcougar99 on Sep-08-2003 17:48:

you may also need a weight at the end with your cart. depends what type of headshell you have. just a thought.

Posted by Widget on Sep-08-2003 20:20:

quote:
Originally posted by dcougar99
You may have the weight backwards. Try to take it all the way off then turn it around... screw it back on with the #'s torward you. Then set the weight to 0 with the tonearm level. This mite help... i know some others who had the same issue.

nope, it's definitely on the right way around.

It's kind of strange, because I couldn't put the weight on anymore, even if I wanted to.

Posted by JohnSmith on Sep-08-2003 22:43:

yeah, you probably need to use the weight that you screw into the top of the headshell to make it even out:

The standard technics one:

the stanton one:

those weights are pretty easy to lose though. I have seen people get around this by taping a penny to the top, it looks a little ghetto but it works.

Posted by Widget on Sep-08-2003 22:47:

quote:
Originally posted by JohnSmith
yeah, you probably need to use the weight that you screw into the top of the headshell to make it even out:

those weights are pretty easy to lose though. I have seen people get around this by taping a penny to the top, it looks a little ghetto but it works.

Well, the thing is that I don't need the extra weight. I'm just wondering why my 2.5g on the weight is the max weight that I can apply.

Posted by JohnSmith on Sep-08-2003 23:14:

because the 2.5 setting is relative to the weight on the other end of the tonearm. if you put a 4 gram weight on the headshell end of the tonearm, you are going to have just under 4 more grams of pressure to play with on the side with the weight on it, it's simple physics.

*JohnSmith goes off on a tangent*

I wonder if a turntable has ever been used to weigh out drugs? think about it, you could use it to weigh out like by balancing it to 0, putting the drugs on the headshell, then turning it till it balances!

even better, you could get a little bowl that would screw into the top where the headshell weight goes, then you could put your powdered E or whatever in there.

Posted by Widget on Sep-08-2003 23:30:

quote:
Originally posted by JohnSmith
because the 2.5 setting is relative to the weight on the other end of the tonearm. if you put a 4 gram weight on the headshell end of the tonearm, you are going to have just under 4 more grams of pressure to play with on the side with the weight on it, it's simple physics.

hmmm... okay, I'm now understanding you. Hadn't thought of that. Well, I think I'm good for the moment. Putting on the weight at the front of the headshell won't change the amount of weight on the record, so I won't change that for now.

quote:
*JohnSmith goes off on a tangent*

I wonder if a turntable has ever been used to weigh out drugs? think about it, you could use it to weigh out like by balancing it to 0, putting the drugs on the headshell, then turning it till it balances!

even better, you could get a little bowl that would screw into the top where the headshell weight goes, then you could put your powdered E or whatever in there.

I'm sure you can get cheaper scales to use, than a turntable. Although in the clubbing circles, you could probably argue that turntables would be more appropriate and possibly even appreciated by the users. One could start selling drugs as being "weighed on an authentic and original Technics SL1200mk2 turntable"