>> You can not reuse needles, nor can you sharpen them. With the
>> acoustic-era machines, needles are used exactly *once*. Play the record,
>> then pitch the needle. If you reuse needles, you will wreck the records.
>
>So,...
>are you saying that it is also not a good idea to tape a stack of quarters
>to the top of the tone arm to stop it from skipping?
Since I only have the one acoustic player, I can't say for all designs.
But my Victrola has a weight already attached, and a pretty heavy one at
that, so I wouldn't dream of doing such a thing. As is you have to tilt
the needle down into place gently or it will tip and slam the needle into
the record pretty hard (hard enough to put a nice puncture wound into a
finger as I learned from experiece).
Although, I know of people doing that with arms for newer analog
turntables. But then in every case it was either because the person had a
REALLY cheap one, or they didn't realize that there was a counterweight
on the back of the arm already (I've seen a few where the weight is under
the plastic cover to the arm, so it isn't obvious its there... my Rockola
jukebox is like that)
-chris
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