How to test your tone arm bearings
How to test your tone arm bearings
1) Install stylus guard!
2) Adjust counterweight for ZERO force (arm floats horizontally – does not rise or fall
3) Turn anti-skating to ZERO
NOW – set arm in middle or stationary record or platter. It should NOT swing laterally. CERTAINLY not fast. If is DOES, your anti-skating is BROKEN.
Now BLOW ever so lightly on the right side of the arm. It should swing all the way in. If it moves a bit and stops suddenly, your lateral bearings are broken (or the tone arm wires are hung up near the bearings – rare, but it CAN happen). The headshell should also bob up and down easily. If it FREEZES in motion, the vertical bearings are damaged.
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