Way back in the dark ages, I read that tonearm damping was the coming thing in consumer audio. We just called it hi-fi. Must have been in the early 60s. I had an Empire turntable and arm, and the article I read said to get a paper clip, bend one end tightly around the arm -- more or less at the arm'smidpoint -- and set up a dish of some kind (I used the top of a Shure cartridge box, upside down), and fill it with STP. Then stick something on the bottom of the paper clip that acted as a little paddle when the contraption was lowered into the STP goo.
Well, darned if it didn't work, or at least I thought it did. Amused my friends, too.
