"I enjoy the solid discussion about 'gel-like' cleaners. I certainly have no other dog in this fight than to continue our research on how to get the most out of the slots and protect our drives and cartridges.
I saw this material on stylus pens shortly after we launched our cartridge analysis service. For months, I assumed the material was just a sloppy use of the epoxy that was used to secure the pencil to the boom. This changed when I saw a cartridge so full of material that I couldn't find my measurement lines because I couldn't find a clean facet of the pencil. The only material-free part of this pencil were the contact edges of the grooves themselves, which had certainly been cleaned by the disc grooves and have probably remained in the grooves to this day. I called the cartridge owner and he confirmed that he was using Zerodust.
We're doing infrared spectrometry on two of these "gel cleaners" to see what they're made of. We are waiting for the results and will report.
I've experimented with many USB microscopes that cost several hundred dollars. I haven't found anyone who can map well enough with a pen to display this material. All images in the article were taken with our laboratory microscope. The soon-to-be-released WallyScope certainly has enough magnification and resolution for this.
Removing this material from your stylus and boom will take some work. Any button cleaner that is suitable for the button / bracket arrangement is not effective with this heavily plasticized material. At the very least, it takes a short bristle brush to rub off, but a few drops of pencil cleaner on the brush can help redeploy the material back onto the pencil with each stroke. Make sure to throw away your brush when you're done cleaning a poorly coated pen.
JR Boisclair
WAM Engineering LLC
Several readers replied by email, including one who sent the above photo of his Ortofon Windfield Ti. His email is under this picture of his clean wind field:
Miguel,
See the attached photos. Malheureusement, the photos are also more beautiful than the WallyTools Celles, most of the time the Ortofon wind field Ti d'OrtofonUSA received to get names of diaphony and j'ai understanding of anomalies étranges écoutant de the music. In each case, Ortofon discovered that the diamond was coated with a foreign material and after thorough cleaning; the cartridge was fine. I always clean my records with a Degritter; and before that a VPI 16.5. And I never use any other pen cleaners. The perpetrator was an Onzow Zerodust. I usually use it religiously after 2-3 shots. But I will never use it again! It's funny how you published an article literally weeks after I made the same discovery. "
We do not publish the original story or this to "tarnish" anyone's reputation, as one reader put it. We post it to provide good information to ignore and take action and of course we will post their response when manufacturers get in touch. Cependant, insist that nous nous abstentions from publier ceci jusqu'à nous ayons from leurs nouvelles n'est pas raisonnable, pas plus that l'affirmation se laquelle il n'y aucune "preuve" ici à propos de ce trouble offers. This is important information that we would be happy to provide to you and which would also be happy to provide feedback from the manufacturer if we receive one.
Aucun commentaire:
Enregistrer un commentaire