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Step 3Feed in the thread.
Now it is time to feed the thread through the tone arm/the metal pipe. The thread has go to the pipe from mounting suspension towards the Teflon nib. You can suck it through with your mouth or with a vacuum cleaner or - as I did it - put a wire through the pipe (the wire is hard enough to push it through) knot the thread to the through-pushed wire and just pull it out of the pipe. Now pull out about a ft. of thread to avoid that the thread is pulled back by accident.
Now put an inch of thread through the Teflon nib. Put the end of the tube into the "little" hole in the cone of the vacuum cleaner, cover the "big" hole and, yes, start the engine.
The thread should be sucked into the tube through the Teflon nib. Feed in about 4 to five inches to be sure the thread doesn't fall out back.This is also a good test, because that will later be the way, the cleaning liquid and dissolved dirt will be sucked off the record.
Thats the thing that had to be done at the turntable itself.
Now put an inch of thread through the Teflon nib. Put the end of the tube into the "little" hole in the cone of the vacuum cleaner, cover the "big" hole and, yes, start the engine.
The thread should be sucked into the tube through the Teflon nib. Feed in about 4 to five inches to be sure the thread doesn't fall out back.This is also a good test, because that will later be the way, the cleaning liquid and dissolved dirt will be sucked off the record.
Thats the thing that had to be done at the turntable itself.
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The nylon nozzle tip of the vacuum arm does not touch the record. A fine filament nylon thread threads through the center of the arm and nozzle that allows the arm to lie very close the record. This un-calendared thread acts as a "ski" to support the arm and keep it a small fraction of an inch from the record. In fact, the distance is the thickness of the thread.
Pull a new piece of thread through each time you clean one side of a record to ensure clean thread rests on the record each time.
Hope that helps