Hans Henrik Pedersen og Annette Ipsen wrote in message ...
Lisa skriver:
.........I managed to pull one of the pins
out from the cartridge............ Can anyone tell me if I can fix this.

I doubt it is easy to fix this without some butchering that
will destroy the exterior look, and as I don't know your
skill with a soldering iron this is difficult to handle
without standing with the parts.

On the other hand: The cartridge is worthless as it is, so
why not try to do some butchering, comforted by the fact,
that the stylus is the expensive part of the package.

The worst thing that can happen is, that you will have to
buy a new cartridge, and if the stylus you have is fine,
perhaps an extra stylus isn't that bad - either buy an
upgrade cartridge like OM 20 or 30 - or a PRO pickup if you
have many worn records from the past/fleamarkets etc.

If you do have luck to butcher and solder the "patient",
you'll be proud of yourself and feel less clumsy afterwards.

Good luck.

Henrik.

Thanks for the tips, I will try the butchering, as you say I have
nothing to lose.
I do get a lot of my records from flea markets etc, why is the ortofon
pro so good for this type of thing

regards

justin

Lisa skriver:From: "Lisa"
Newsgroups: rec.audio.high-end
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 7:07 AM
Subject: ortofon OM10 Broken can anyone help!!
I do get a lot of my records from flea markets
etc, why is the ortofon pro so good for this
type of thing

regards justin

The PRO, PRO S, Broadcast E etc. can - being more rugged and
playing with a higher tracking force - be a fine option for playing
the often warped and less than perfect records you may sometimes
find in flea markets.

On some records, you may find, that even a tiny change in the
shape of the stylus will make a record that you would otherwise have
discarded, tolerable.

Also for worn mono records (45 singles for example) the PRO
or PROs in some cases is a better choice than the D25M stylus
originally invented for monorecords.

The OM/Concorde is perhaps not he best cartridge in the
world, but it is very versatile. It can easily be swapped from hifi
(OM 40, 30....) to shellac (OM 78) via all the different PRO/disco
versons for rugged use playing old, worn and imperfect records.

Sorry if this is beginning to sound a bit off-topic, but
although not strictly a high-end discussion it is about how you get
the best out of the worst records.

Yours Henrik.