Renovation of the TP16 tonearm

The TP16 arm still fitted to the base plate

You can see the two allen crews on the bottom. You have to release them for about two turns to lift the arm from the base plate. On the back is a second screw at the bottom.

Two Allen screws at the bottom plate

The two allen screws at the bottom plate of the armboard securing the mount of the tonearm. You have to releave both screws to remove the tone arm form the baseplate. Just turn the screws two or three times. That should be enough for removing the complete arm.

The complete arm is lifted from the base plate after releasing the two Allen screws.

Making the aluminium tube loose from the cardanic shaft of the tone arm.

You can see the nylon wire between the cardan shaft of the tone arm. You have to loosen the arm a little bit and be very careful. It will give you just enough room to fill in the new tone arm wires.

Tone arm is now detached

The tone arm is now detached from the cardanic joint. Again treat the assembly with care. The dots in the weight now become visible. You can see to old wires (the two copper wires) coming out of the aluminium shaft at the bottom of the shaft. The third wire connected to the cardanic joint is the ground wire and grounds the complete tonearm. You have to connect a new black tonearm grounding to this connection.

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The arm tube with the new wires

The plastic adapters in de tube are removed for direct connection to the cartridge.The four new wires are placed with the tube.

The headshell with still the current cartridge

Pastic connector in aluminium tube of the arm.

The plastic connector in de aluminium tube of the arm. I remove this plastic connector because the wiring goes directly to the cardridge without any more needed connectors in de signal path.

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The arm without the pin

I use a drill column with a 1 mm drill to remove the holder pin. You can see te removed pin out of the aluminium tube of the arm. .

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