06-13-2014, 04:46 PM
RE: folks who re-tip styli: westtechservices@yahoo.com It's all I have left, because I have a new computer (HATE 8.1!) and everything I saved was on the OLD one.
RE: Pictures... Not so you'd notice them, except there WAS a wall chart issued by Astaic about 1955 or so, and it showed an outline of it.
This stylus shank is TAPERED. Almost not visible, but tapered all the same. It is held in the pickup by friction. The socket is rubber, and molded such that putting a steel needle in destroys the socket. If someone has an old one and a micrometer, you can 'mike' the top end, and the area where it exits the pickup. With some math, the exact taper can be calculated, and something new might be fabricated. The 'rake' is critical to surface noise reduction. (Rake is the angle at which the stylus meets the record.) The earlier versions of this stylus appeared to be straight, but in fact were bent just a bit at the tip end.
RE: Pictures... Not so you'd notice them, except there WAS a wall chart issued by Astaic about 1955 or so, and it showed an outline of it.
This stylus shank is TAPERED. Almost not visible, but tapered all the same. It is held in the pickup by friction. The socket is rubber, and molded such that putting a steel needle in destroys the socket. If someone has an old one and a micrometer, you can 'mike' the top end, and the area where it exits the pickup. With some math, the exact taper can be calculated, and something new might be fabricated. The 'rake' is critical to surface noise reduction. (Rake is the angle at which the stylus meets the record.) The earlier versions of this stylus appeared to be straight, but in fact were bent just a bit at the tip end.
