Originally Posted by
Svend N
Back to your sticky problem with the RB300/OM20 -- did you happen to check whether the arm lift might be out of adjustment? If it's set too high, or the curved arm is bent slightly upwards, then it could well be causing the sticking you describe if the arm is making contact with it while playing. The arm lift height is adjustable with a little grub screw, BTW. Worth checking...
Did check very carefully to make sure tonearm is not rubbing agains the arm lift, and no, that's not the case, not even close. At the point when the 'stuck in the groove' defect occurs, the tonearm is nowhere near touching anything or rubbing against anything. It really feels as if there is some friction inside the pivot, because I can feel a bit of resistance when I hold the tonearm in my hand and push it toward the centre of the platter.
Don't you just hate it when you cannot detect where the post ends and a signature line begins?
Alex.