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Originally Posted by Richard_FM
I've heard of people taping coins to the tonearms of Dansettes to stop them from jumping, old pennies being common.
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Many years ago the attractive young lady who lived down the road asked if I could mend her record player. It kept jumping and she had discovered that putting an old penny on top of the tonearm cured it. I told her that that wasn't a very good idea as it would wear out the records very quickly but I was sure I could fix it. I assumed a bit of oil and/or a quick twiddle with a screw driver was all that was necessary.
Try as I might I couldn't get it to track correctly. Not wanting to lose face, I wrote to the manufacturer explaining the problem. A couple of weeks later I got a reply. It was apparently a design error but there was a fix. They sent me a metal plate about the weight of an old penny which had to be installed between the cartridge and the end of the tonearm.