Oil or no ? This is the problem...

[studiorp]

Hello all, I have read some interesting post of past here about the use of oil for damping the high freq. of mechanical resonance of some cutting heads like Grampian or other.

At the end what do you think ?

Thanks.

[Bahndahn]

I have heard it's a must, the question is instead: what weight of oil to use?

That being said, I don't own one of these heads and have no experience with them, I just read about it regarding the Grampian replica by rolandjays.

[Voxster1965]

Do you mean oil for dampening the suspension mechanism (i.e. dash pot) or for treating the substrate (i.e. master or dub plate)?

[studiorp]

No, I mean the oil inside the cutting head that has working with this system for dampening the movemnt of stylus holder. This system had replaced the old gums that with the time gone...

I know that there is people that use these heads like Grampian for example with oil, other no, because prefer another type of sound, and so on... Interesting is another case, the Ms-52 h of Neumann, because inside somewhere there is silicone grease and not oil, but too here, depend which is the viscosity grade, as oil... Exist more types of silicone grease...

[Voxster1965]

I think from what you are describing you probably need a light silicone oil. For general mechanical lubrication I also use sewing machine oil ("Singer" brand if you can find it).

[Radardoug]

Ferrofluid would be the answer.

[crowesBR]

Anyone tried with a Presto 1c or 1d?