It is easy to remanufacture the rubber insert for the Series I arm, but the triple bush spider on the Series II is another matter altogether, requiring a clockmakers bush press to push out the tiny retaining pins, so that the rubbers could be changed. Also the rubbers in the SME spider, even if you could get a NOS one, are going to be knocking on forty years old and could be either hardened or perished. Replacement spiders are available on ebay but they are invariably used and I wouldn’t want to take a chance on one. The Series II Improved arm does not seem to have an easy solution to the saggy counterweight issue, and nobody seems to talk about it much - probably because the Series II improved is not as desirable an artefact. You can read plenty of stuff about saggy counterweights on the older Series I tonearms, and places like Peak Hi-Fi sell the rubber insert for the rear of the armtube and provide fitting instructions, so the older arms can be kept going. It was pointing slightly upwards.įurther examination revealed that the counterweight was sagging, the cause being, that the two bottom rubber bushes, of the three that make up the decoupling arrangements on the spider carrying the threaded counterweight stub had become compressed over the years. My SME 3009 Series II Improved arm had been bothering me after I noticed a couple of weeks ago, that the way rod carrying the tracking force scale and rider weight, was not level with the armtube.
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