Anti skate and tonearm damping query

Axelwahl

I have a simple test for you.

If possible, adjust your arm to zero overhang and check the skating. It will have changed very slightly (due to the change in offset angle) whereas if I read your theory correctly you would expect no skating at zero overhang.

Mark Kelly

Thank you Mark,
but you are missing the friction force in your test suggestion, present in variable degrees due to variable VTF / stylus shape / friction, as mentioned.

Therefore there will *always* be a skate force present even at 0 mm over-hang :-)
There will be MORE skate force with more overhang, my initial argument and proven by test.
The influence of the VTF => friction is (as I said also) of much more influence i.e. over-hang may therefore be ignored as be off-set, since they are a non-variable parameter (in theory at least) according to a specific arm geometry.

The test: lift the stylus of the vinyl and you'll have 0 skate force where ever the arm is :-)

Greetings,
Axel

Axelwahl

Go back and read my post 15 above this one.

Mark Kelly

Mark,
am I having a different understanding of what is off-set?

It may explain perhaps some crossed wire...

"Off-set" in my vocab is the angle that a head-shell / cart /cantilever is mounted out of the true / straight line with the tone-arm-wand i.e. 0 deg = no off-set.

As to the various measured forces caused by friction between various materials I have no issue with at all.
In fact, and often, the faster the speed the LESS the friction force e.g. when an object starting to plain on water, rather then being dragged through it is some extreme case in point.

If a tiny tip of a stylus is 'dragged' over smooth vinyl, I can see that no measurable difference in friction force would be the case.
However, no friction force *NO* skate force!

It is this friction that wants to pull the stylus tip with it. Since it can't, due to the arm pivot holding it back, it will do the next best thing and pull the arm in line with the center of rotation. This would also be the shortes distance from pivot to center of rotation, right?

Like a pendulum being pulled (eventually) to the shortest distance from pivot to the center of gravity.

No gravity force, the pendulum will remain where ever is happens to be.

Axel

Mark, my rudimentary understandig says line contact has less force on the groove wall so shouldnt less force lead to lower friction and hence lower skate force, but I cant reconcile this with your Amonton law breakdown stating lower pressure implies higher friction, although wont some of the breakdown be ameliorated by the cantilever making the diamond less hard compared to the vinyl?