Odd Tonearm needs adjustment; where/how?

[5th beatle]

I need help identifying how and where to make various tonearm adjustments to this Micro-Trac tonearm as Iam experiencing lots of skipping where there used to be little or none. Thanks for all ideas.

 

[vinyldavid]

pics please?

Skipping could also be caused by worn stylus.

 

[5th beatle]

Well, there was supposed to be an attached picture I uploaded from hard drive My docs, my pictures. That failed. How do I remedy this? Thanks.

 

[Blue Shadow]

make sure the pic is the right size or less both dimensions and memory requirement. edit your post and see if the pic uploaded

 

[5th beatle]

Odd tonearm needs adjustments; how/where?

Well, edit attempt not accepted, as I see limit is 195KB and pic trying to upload is 688KB. Going back to My doc, My pics won't permit downsizing. Should I go back to original picture disc and reload? Not very computer literate in these matters. Pardon me.

 

[Blue Shadow]

I resize all pics using a freeware Irfanview. This allows uploading.

You can use just about any picture program to play with the pics, as most should have a resize function.

http://www.irfanview.com/

 

[vinyldavid]

try paint. Load the pic you want in Paint and go to stretch/resize and then change 100% to like 50% and click OK. Re-save as a JPEG. That's what I do.

 

[5th beatle]

Odd tonearm needs adjustments;where/how?

Hey, Blue Shadow,

Managed to download Irfanview to desktop and thought I had resized original to 27%. Upon upload attempt, I get i_view32.exe: upload error message. Very frustrated at this point. Obviously I'm screwing up somewhere. Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[goldear]

Hey, Blue Shadow,

Managed to download Irfanview to desktop and thought I had resized original to 27%. Upon upload attempt, I get i_view32.exe: upload error message. Very frustrated at this point. Obviously I'm screwing up somewhere. Any suggestions? Thanks.

What format are you saving your image in? Perhaps you are using a format which this program does not support. :scratch2:

 

[mhardy6647]

Micro-trak? Is that this thing?

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=79143&highlight=tonearm

 

[5th beatle]

Odd tonearm needs adjustments; where/how?

Format is XP with pics loaded to hard drive in My Docs. Then transferred a pic to Irfanview downloaded to desktop. Then tried to upload from Irfanview to "Manage Attachments" on AK only to get upload error message.

Yup, That's the one!

 

[Aage]

The best way to get precision tracking adjustments on an arm like that is to keep taping pennies on the headshell end of it until it doesn't skip any more.




(only kidding)

 

[5th beatle]

What are the two dots in the circle of the rectangle weight(both sides) for? There is also a larger one centered just below that and a similar one where headshell rests. BTW, mine has a 1973 quarter taped to head for balancing.

 

[Aage]

BTW, mine has a 1973 quarter taped to head for balancing.

Aha, you have the new version of it then! The old one was strictly for pennies.