Decca arm rewire
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#1 Decca arm rewire
For my next trick (after finishing my speakers) I'm going to attempt to re-wire my funny old Decca u/p arm.
I've lived with it for a year and a bit now and last night I managed to get it to track brilliantly after redressing the orrible stiff cables that it came with BUT they have to be just so.
I'm guessing that the insulation has hardened over the years and is causing the slight miss-tracking I'm getting especially on inner grooves.
I've ordered some of the Litz wire from Satcure seeing as it's highly rated and cheap,
Any tips?
DTB
I've lived with it for a year and a bit now and last night I managed to get it to track brilliantly after redressing the orrible stiff cables that it came with BUT they have to be just so.
I'm guessing that the insulation has hardened over the years and is causing the slight miss-tracking I'm getting especially on inner grooves.
I've ordered some of the Litz wire from Satcure seeing as it's highly rated and cheap,
Any tips?
DTB
"The fat bourgeois and his doppelganger"
#2 Re: Decca arm rewire
Fit it inside your tonearm when it arrives and have a listenDave the bass wrote:
Any tips?
DTB
Ha, ha, ....sorry couldn't resist
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#3 Re: Decca arm rewire
Arf!Darren wrote:Fit it inside your tonearm when it arrives and have a listen
Ha, ha, ....sorry couldn't resist
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#4
Oooo, My Brahms-and-Litz wire has arrived, huzah.
It looks like the silk insulation unwinds, is that how it's stripped back>
Did anyone here find a way to accurately remove small bits of the insulation? Iron tip? Fire? Machete? Termites?
DTB
It looks like the silk insulation unwinds, is that how it's stripped back>
Did anyone here find a way to accurately remove small bits of the insulation? Iron tip? Fire? Machete? Termites?
DTB
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#7
Ta Darren and Andrew, I think I could use the heat from my throat at the mo, I've got a lurgy
I'll have a Decca-destruction-day next week.
Cheers me dears
DTB
I'll have a Decca-destruction-day next week.
Cheers me dears
DTB
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#9
Cheers Simon,simon wrote:Yep, concur with the above, that's all I did - use the heat of the iron. The silk charred a little close to where the iron had been but nothing to worry about.
I was going to pass the un-charred silk back to the silk worms what with being veggies and all that
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#11
Yeah, 'spect bruv <knuckle touch>simon wrote:You truly are a worthy hippy. Respect brother
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#13
Yes thanks Richard, interesting that he had problems with the fraying of the satcure litz I'm hoping to have a bash at mine this week.
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#14
Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh.
This arm is hacking me off, someones bonded the headshell socket to the arm tube. It's supposed to be a grub/set screw, I can't get the 2 apart, looks like super glue to me.
Grrrrr.
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This arm is hacking me off, someones bonded the headshell socket to the arm tube. It's supposed to be a grub/set screw, I can't get the 2 apart, looks like super glue to me.
Grrrrr.
DTB
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#15
The patient lives and WILL play the piano again.
It tracks now, the anti skate actually DOES something and the VTF is consistent.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
DTB
It tracks now, the anti skate actually DOES something and the VTF is consistent.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
DTB
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