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Victrolaman wrote:The little screw that's set about the needle bar is it supposed to be touching or not?
Someone told me that's it's not, if it is it dampens the sound, is this corect?
On mine it's just above it nit touching, how far away from the needle bar should it be?

The stop screw should not be touching-it's designed to keep the needle bar from damaging the diaphragm in the event of rough handling. You can loosen the lock nut and carefully tighten the screw until when playing the sound is dampened. Then you back off the screw two or three turns and set the lock nut (described on page 278 in Baumbach's Look For The Dog).

Bob

Ok, I was hoping there was. Way to make it louder