ARCHIVED FORUM -- March 2012 to February 2022READ ONLY FORUM
This is the second Archived Forum which was active between 1st March 2012 and 23rd February 2022
Very pleased with the new cantilever and Shibata retip on my MMC4000 by Axel Shuerholz in Germany.
Posted it off from the UK and it was back in just over 2 weeks: excellent service!
The nightmare began when I snapped the plastic locating stub on the end of the tonearm on my Beogram 4000 trying to remove the MMC 20EN that I'd been using.
After a few choice words, I thought never mind I've got a spare on the parts-only deck I bought recently. I removed it from the donor deck easily enough after undoing a screw, sliding it off and unsoldering the wires on the connector board
I then removed the damaged one, only to find that this one had a completely different connector: it simply slid off with no wires visible, just brass strips on a slide-fit connector board.
To cut a long story short, I managed to make one good arm by wrecking the broken arm to extract the internal slide connection, and then soldering the wires from the good arm to it. I then made the connection and re-fitted the arm
MMC 4000 was then carefully fitted, VTF adjusted and now sounds great. Phew!