Stylus Retipping Service (phono cartridge) - specialist from Russia, Moscow

This my first post and appreciate the fine work on rebuilding these !
How do you determine the length to use and what kind of epoxy are you using ?

Thanx
David

 

Very interesting thread and very nice job from Roman, congratulations Roman I am really impressed.

 

Hi Roman , how much the repair costs of Ortofon Cadenza Black? Cantilever is bent/ curved, rest is ok.

 

[QUOTE = "Walterwalter, publicación: 18477454, miembro: 86219"] A Michail
Utilicé cables desmontados del antiguo cartucho Ortofon MM para enrollar nuevas bobinas para el carro MC. Hay bobinas bastante grandes con muchos cables en cualquier carro de MM. Personalmente, tengo un montón de cadáveres de diferentes carros MM de extremo superior, así que no hay problema para encontrar el modo correcto de rebobinar MC. [/ QUOTE]
I've used wires dismantled from vintage Ortofon MM cartridge to wind new coils for MC cart. There are pretty huge coils with a lot of wires in any MM cart. I personally, have a lot of dead bodies of different top end MM carts, so no problem with finding proper to rewind MC.

 

Hello you can repair coils thanks

 

Hi! Sorry for my late reply... Can you send me some pictures of you Ortofon Cadenza Black, please? My e-mail: [email protected]
I've got my own Ortofon Cadenza Black and it's fantastic cartridge! Middle frequency is just unbelievable on this cartrige.
But I hardly can imagine how cantilever could be bent, since Cadenza Black uses boron cantilever... Boron can't be bent.
Probably there is a problem with suspension wire... Anyway, I have to take a look at your cartridge.

 

Hello!
No, unfortunately I'm not dealing with coils repair.

 

My new works...

Denon - DL-103R
Stylus - Original stylus



Dynavector - DV-20X
Stylus - Van Den Hul

 

Denon - DL-103
Stylus - Nagaoka JN-P200



Koetsu - Rosewood
Stylus - ATN-440ML



In the process:
Audio-Technica AT-32
Sony XL-55PRO
Yamaha MC-1S
Benz-Micro - ACE S

 

Roman, are you able to retip t4p cartridges and keep the correct 20mm distance from the back of the cartridge body to stylus tip? If so I may be interested in getting a couple cartridges retipped.

Warren, is there by chance any left over styli from the group buy or are they history? If there are, I'm interested in purchasing a couple.

 

i know this is an old thread but i wonder if you've ever worked on a technics epa-305mc?
i have one that the rubber damper has become soft and it rides low.in your photos above it looks the same.
is this something you can replace/fix please?
best wishes.
jamie.

 

hmm no reply to email sent,i wonder if he's not doing re tipping anymore?

 

seriously? he just posted a couple days ago fotos of all the cartridges hes done recently.

patience, grasshopper!

doug s.

 

ah perhaps i should have seen the dates,my bad.

 

Hello everybody!
Just want to let you know - sometimes I'm a little bit busy with some other things and can't reply on your messges in time, but I will reply to all of you anyway, just with a little delay... Sorry for that.
And I'm still running my re-tipping thing, definitely not going to stop

 

Hello Jamie!
Soft damper on Technics cartridges - it's a common thing, this is their "ailing side", 70% of Technics cartridges have the same problem.
And unfortunately due to a difficult construction of moving parts on this 305MC model - it's almost impossible to change the damper without damaging coil wires.
There is one screw on the body, this screw is responsible for a tightening or softening of cartridge moving parts.
It's possible to tight moving parts a little bit by this screw, but I don't think it will help, if damper already became too soft due to aging.
Try to check condition of damper - is he looks like a glue already?

 

thanks roman,i will post a photo,give me 5

 

I can do this, but only if we are going to use an aluminum cantilever as a spare part.
Boron, beryllium, sapphire of ruby cantilevers can't be cutted to a necessary length.

 

well it looks sticky and wet,ive just bought a new old stock one still sealed in the box,i hope it doesn't share the same fate.

 

Yamaha - MC-1S
Stylus - unknown elliptical



Audio-Technica - AT32
Stylus - unknown elliptical

 

Sony - XL55PRO
Stylus - Nagaoka JN-P200



Sony - XL55PRO
Stylus - ATN-120E

 

Hello, I need my Sony XL-55 Pro cartridge repaired. It has one channel out. Is this something you can do Roman?

 

Hi Roman, I have a Monster Genesis 1000 MC cartridge and it has very little hours on it. I like it's sound very much. For whatever happened, the cantilever collapsed on the record one day I played it. Can this be repairable? Thanks

 

Cheers Roman,
May I ask why did you use so much glue on this cartridge?
I truly appreciate your efforts, but with such amount of glue I am not sure the sound of this Koetsu isgood.

 

Recoiling is not cheap, but if you decide to get a new coil I would recommend to make it around 6-8 ohm. My experience is that lower impedance cartridges sound nicer. The same is true with the DL-103 with a 6 ohm silver coil.