Chip Tube Alignment

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Re: Chip Tube Alignment

Post: # 23625Unread post opcode66
Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:35 am

Just be sure to bend the tip of the pipe cleaner a bit. So, when inserting, the bend in the pipe cleaner matches the bend of the tube. Otherwise you'll be raking metal against metal and might damage the plating on the tube. Or scrath it, which you dont want.
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Re: Chip Tube Alignment

Post: # 23642Unread post audadvnc
Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:35 pm

We get occasional problems of chip wandering off onto the lacquer, usually it comes down to a partial blockage in one of a half dozens sections of the vacuum hose system, which lowers vacuum pressure. After ten or fifteen minutes of poking around and cleaning tubes, we find a rat's nest of chip nestled away in some out of the way passage we hadn't considered before.

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Re: Chip Tube Alignment

Post: # 23663Unread post Serif
Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:11 pm

I read that the Audiodiscs were supposed to be stored at 50% RH. I suppose Apollos and Transcos would be similar in need of humid environs?



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Re: Chip Tube Alignment

Post: # 23694Unread post Greg Reierson
Tue Feb 26, 2013 1:42 pm

Sam from Apollo just swapped out the new Adamant styli I was having trouble with for Transco. I should be able to test tomorrow to see if they work better.
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Re: Chip Tube Alignment

Post: # 23752Unread post Greg Reierson
Thu Feb 28, 2013 4:48 pm

Just an update. The Transco styli are working great. All seems to be back in order.

Thanks for all of the suggestions. I'm sure there will be more question!
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Re: Chip Tube Alignment

Post: # 23754Unread post jjgolden
Thu Feb 28, 2013 4:55 pm

Good to hear Greg, big relief I'm sure!
Thanks for the update

Is it a transco "K" stylus?

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Re: Chip Tube Alignment

Post: # 23755Unread post Greg Reierson
Thu Feb 28, 2013 5:16 pm

320 is all it says.
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Re: Chip Tube Alignment

Post: # 23756Unread post jjgolden
Thu Feb 28, 2013 5:33 pm

Ok Thanks,
I believe 320 K's have a finer tip.
(the "K" marking is a second white sticker on the back of the case)

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Re: Chip Tube Alignment

Post: # 23757Unread post Greg Reierson
Thu Feb 28, 2013 5:38 pm

The sticker says 320 A2652. I assume the second is the serial number.
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Re: Chip Tube Alignment

Post: # 23797Unread post adamgonsa
Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:07 pm

Glad it got sorted out Greg. I was in the same position some time ago and incorrectly thought it was the stylus. Actually what I needed to do was adjust the cutting angle. The cutting angle had drifted somehow and the chip was getting blocked on it's way to the suction tube, first balling up and then winding around the center spindle as you described. When I fixed that I put the old "problematic" stylus back on and it worked fine.

This might not be relevant for a VMS70, but it helped on a Scully.
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Re: Chip Tube Alignment

Post: # 58198Unread post rcvinyl
Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:09 am

today I face a similar problem on my Scully which is very frustrated...the suction can not pick up the chip from the beginning, when I setting LPI on around 280, the chip can stand pick up for a few seconds, in other LPI setting, chip balls up immediatelyand I check all things again and again.
1.Tube and hose are all clean
2.stylus angle have no problem, clean with acetone,I switch a new micro point stylus and use a new MDC lacquer but it doesn't works.
3.try to get the suction tube as low as I can, nothing change.
4.the suction can suck the baby powder pretty well



Is there anything I can do?

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Re: Chip Tube Alignment

Post: # 58226Unread post Aussie0zborn
Mon Apr 05, 2021 6:13 am

Stylus Rake Angle: 2 degrees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt___Ct_zRU

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