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I played my phono for the 1st time in a while today. I use a modded early VPI HW 19 table and Fidelity research FR 64 FX arm. There was no problem until I tried 2 of my other 3 pickups mounted in separate head shells. One only played in 1 channel, the other was dead although nothing had changed but time. Just for the heck of it I decided to clean the head shell contacts. Lo and behold both of the troubled pickups now worked and when I did the same to the original head shell, it played louder.Obviously the contacts had oxidized just from sitting for a long period. I'm sure this is a rare problem but if it pops up for you try cleaning the contacts. Hope this helps someone.
I guess this is a clue to take off and put back every connection, speaker cables, interconnects, and AC cords, in my system to clean off accumulated oxidation.
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Topic - Oxidation On Removeable Head Shell Contacts - hahax@verizon.net 20:45:03 01/18/20 (24)
- Oxidation On Removeable Head Shell Contacts - Basher52 08:52:54 01/20/20 (0)
- RE: Oxidation On Removeable Head Shell Contacts - Lew 08:01:23 01/19/20 (4)
- When I've cleaned the inside of my gold plated female leads some kind of black grunge came off. - Rick W 09:19:33 01/20/20 (3)
- RE: When I've cleaned the inside of my gold plated female leads some kind of black grunge came off. - Lew 12:55:55 01/20/20 (2)
- Guess that's a possibility, but....... - Rick W 10:32:31 01/21/20 (0)
- "Could it be residue from whatever you use to "clean" the contacts?" - 1973shovel 05:01:58 01/21/20 (0)
- Metal polish. - ghost of olddude55 06:59:04 01/19/20 (13)
- RE: Metal polish. - PAR 14:57:47 01/19/20 (12)
- RE: Metal polish. - flood2 18:03:39 01/25/20 (0)
- Polish, then clean with iso. - ghost of olddude55 12:00:09 01/20/20 (0)
- "Have you any recommendation" - 1973shovel 06:34:41 01/20/20 (5)
- RE: "Have you any recommendation" - PAR 15:41:14 01/20/20 (3)
- You're welcome (nt) - 1973shovel 05:05:39 01/21/20 (0)
- Found one . . . - alaskahiatt 17:44:31 01/20/20 (1)
- Damn - 1973shovel 05:07:14 01/21/20 (0)
- I saw a lot of references to those brushes in my search for headshell - alaskahiatt 08:35:48 01/20/20 (0)
- Well, there was this post back in 2017 . . . - alaskahiatt 00:01:16 01/20/20 (2)
- RE: Well, there was this post back in 2017 . . . - PAR 02:39:43 01/20/20 (1)
- I started googling "fiberoptic stick cleaners UK", and I found one - alaskahiatt 08:31:23 01/20/20 (0)
- RE: Metal polish. - pictureguy 15:02:17 01/19/20 (0)
- Caig DeoxIT is your friend. /nt\ - Opus 33 1/3 06:48:40 01/19/20 (3)
- It is the go-to..........nt - Uncle Mike 07:47:59 01/19/20 (2)
- Useless on Dual cartridge sleds. - ghost of olddude55 12:07:06 01/20/20 (1)
- Did you... - samstone 14:28:01 01/25/20 (0)