What's considered bad for your stylus?

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  1. jon9091

    jon9091 Master Of Reality

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    Obviously played on this...

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  2. Bolero

    Bolero Senior Member

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    maybe it was damaged by someone wiping it down with something that was abrasive?

    like a cloth with dirt in it etc

    or trying to play it with a broken stylus?

    who knows what kind of crazy gear that LP has seen :D

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  3. MikeInFla

    MikeInFla Glad to be out of Florida

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    When I was a young lad I had one of those all in one Sears record AM/FM cassette players. If I had a record that would skip I would apply pressure to the tone arm with my finger over that particular area of the record that skipped. If left the SAME marking that is on your record. It fixed the skip but sounded like SH** after I did it.

    Please excuse my ignorance, I was 12 years old. But I think someone might have done the same thing. It wasn't this but it looked similar (digital radio instead of analog tuner and no 8 track and no read cartridge and the tone arm was not adjustable).

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  4. SixtiesGuy

    SixtiesGuy Ministry of Love

    Steel wool.
     
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  5. vudicus

    vudicus Forum Resident

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    Anything by the Eagles.

    I'm joking, I don't even own a turntable. :winkgrin:
     
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  6. Trapper J

    Trapper J Senior Member Thread Starter

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    Fairly common for me too, but not in good shape. Yea I'm kind of regretting this purchase now.
     
  7. Trapper J

    Trapper J Senior Member Thread Starter

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    Interesting... Thanks for the reply
     
  8. 1970

    1970 Forum Resident

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    You know, some of these thread titles I dread clicking on. Always something to worry about. We should have an all purpose sub-forum called "Paranoia Corner." Drink three cups of coffee before visiting, to fuel the anxiety... :) :thumbsup:

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  9. Coricama

    Coricama Classic Rocker

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    Looks like the stylus was completely shot and the bottom of the cartridge was dragging on the record. Or, maybe it was skipping so somebody taped a few coins to the top of the head shell to weight it down? I wouldn't play it.
     
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  10. Coricama

    Coricama Classic Rocker

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    I think that's it.
     
  11. MikeInFla

    MikeInFla Glad to be out of Florida

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    Leave it to a dumb 12 year old to figure it out 32 years ago!
     
  12. Licorice pizza

    Licorice pizza Livin’ On The Fault Line

    Great quote.

    I always say a stylus is like a baby. Once it pops out of the womb it immediately starts living, decaying and dying.
     
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  13. What's considered bad for your stylus?? Half a bottle of Jack Daniels!!!!
     
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  14. Doug G.

    Doug G. Forum Resident

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    Scratched vinyl is still just vinyl and it's not going to wear the diamond any faster than a brand new groove. If the scratches are bad enough that they throw the diamond/cantilever around, those could be damaged by the physical onslaught but the diamond won't wear any faster.

    Doug
     
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  15. OcdMan

    OcdMan Senior Member

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    I used to do that too! Funny stuff now. It's essentially the same kind of damage caused by DJ scratching which is extreme and excessive wear, except it's caused by 7 pounds of tracking force for one pass instead of 7 grams for 100 passes. Usually with an already trashed stylus. :eek:

    I'd really like to hear the damaged portions of the LP in question. If there's a residual "thump" in the middle of it all, it was probably a skip and someone put their finger on the tonearm. If there's sibilance, the groove was shredded during mistracking. If it's just flat-out distortion, maybe DJ'ing or a quick test play by someone using a record wrecker. I have one of those LPs: pristine everywhere except where someone tested a section of a track with a junk turntable.
     
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  16. quicksilverbudie

    quicksilverbudie quicksilverbudie

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    I have but I don't know how it happens, perhaps someone playing the same line over and over learning a guitar part? I don't even skip tracks for fear of damage, I play sides.:agree:

    sean
     
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  17. Some old automatic turntables can do things like that to LPs in that part of the record. They have a thing that comes up every time you put a record, if it touches nothing, it knows it´s a single, if it touches something (that would be the LP) then it knows its an album. Playing it several times can result in something like that.
     
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