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From: wjm@whuxj.UUCP (MITCHELL)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: stylus timers
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Date: Mon, 7-May-84 08:42:23 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  7 08:42:23 1984
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Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, N.J.
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The best advice I've heard about stylus checking is that a stylus should first
be inspected at 500 hours of use and every 100 hours thereafter.  2000 hours is
FAR too long until first inspection, given the damage a worn stylus can do to
records.  One simple, and downright CHEAP trick I use for tracking time is to
get one of those $1.99 counters they sell for keeping track of your grocery
bills - totally mechanical with four plungers, one for each digit and the
beastie counts to 9999.  Each time I play a side of an LP, I increment the
counter by one.  Since most classical LP's have about 30 minutes of music
on a side, I simply divide the reading by 2 to get the total hours logged on
the stylus.
Bill Mitchell
Bell Communications Research, Inc.
Whippany, NJ  (whuxj!wjm)