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Hello j-man,
i would thank you very much to send me also the contact for the cartridge repair.
I have the same one SK-461 in my Tonmaster and it is "worn" with no longer good sound.
Thanks a lot and best wishes
Gernot
Hi, sorry for the delay. I sent you a PM with the contact.
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The cartridge is back and works great! Thanks a lot Hildegard!
There's still something I need to fix: I believe that the repaired cartridge is heavier than before, because i had to move the counterweight to the very edge ot the arm to get the right tracking force (slightly less than 10g). Of course this setting affects only the lower B-side of the records: how can I adjust the tracking fo
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@Hachikoo1
Maybe it's a bit too late, six months are passed since your post... but I have a Fanfare 60a in my lab right now, I can shoot a video to show you how it works, if you still need it.
In short, when the coil is powered on, its shaft pushes a short lever that turns on the start-stop and arm movement leverage. After the start cycle is completed, the small eccentric pulley lever s
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Martin, I sent you a private message with the contact Hildegard sent me. Good luck!
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Update. I just got a mail from the lab in Ansbach, they'll fix the cartridge for 59 € plus shipping. Thanks to Hildegard for her precious hint!
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Hi. I've been busy for a few days, but I managed to contact some "cartridge repair" labs (including the one that Hildegard sent me): I didn't get any answer yet, I hope they are busy too...
In the meantime I found other info sources: here's a topic about a "Rochelle salt crystal" cartridge on an Italian site and here's the Dutch webpage where the rest
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Looking for further informations about the cartridge I got a little confused...
On this webpage they say that the Tonmeister/Tonmaster was equipped with a Ronette TO-284... that looks completely different from the cartridge I got.
Before trying to tear it up, I was looking out for a possible spare... you never know.
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QuoteHildegard
Another kind of often bad piece is the rubber where the top of the styli rest on.
Hmm, that piece doesn't look like rubber to me.... I suspect that somebody messed around with this cartridge in the past, but of course I could be wrong: I never saw a Wiegandt Tonmaster cartridge before. What do you think?
I never heard about cartridge repairs here in Italy, but to be hones
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Today I managed to get the arm lever to work correctly. Unfortunately the cartridge doesn't generate any sound, I guess it needs to be replaced (seems impossible to open it without any damage). It looks quite different from the picture included in the service manual (part number SK460) but it fits perfectly in the tonearm cradle. Any information is welcome... thanks in advance.
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I would check the eccentric pulleys that drive the tonearm: the large one also moves the shaft on the main lever to raise the tonearm when the record player is turning counterclockwise. Maybe the pulleys just need to be cleaned.
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Swen, thanks a lot for your good advice. I'm gonna send him a mail.
By the way, last night I got the jukebox working for the first time... what a thrill! The mechanism is fully working, but there's no sound and the automatic stop is triggered too early. I guess the cartridge is broken - it was connected straight to the line input of an hifi amp - and the arm lever that I built hasn
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In addition there's another photo with sizes.
Sorry, I have to write in English because my German is terrible... I studied it in school forty-five years ago (I should I have studied it, to be honest...) but I forgot almost everything since. When I got the Fanfare service manual, I tried to translate it in English but I got to use Google Translator all the time
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Hello everybody: this is my first post here, so I will introduce myself a bit. I'm Italian, I'm a musician and since I was a child I developed a passion for electronics. It became useful when I began to work in recording studios in the Eighties, first as a maintenance engineer then as MIDI programmer and keyboard player, and after a while the latter became my real profession, while elec
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