Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners

Ct0517,
As you know the ET2 is a very tweakable arm. I run slightly higher torque settings on the 4 arc bolts and for this reason I loosen them slightly before adjusting VTA. Your analogy of car wheels is rather odd. In over 35 years of running the ET2 the arc block is still original and in pristine condition.
I did have some customers who managed to break and grind down arc blocks by over tightening and trying to adjust VTA whilst overtightened and indeed one customer who managed to break 3 cartridges mounted on their ET2 back in the day, despite adding copious amounts of mass...

Dover, please advise what colour Allen key Ct0517 should use.

"By the way in your original post you suggest using the short end of the allen key - in fact using the long end in the cap screw, and turning the short end to turn will put less torque on the bolt." Dover

:-)

http://www.pbswisstools.com/en/quality-hand-tools-qht/color-code/rainbow/key-l-wrenches.html

Boy.... tough crowd .... do you agree Dover ?

John47/Frogman - I always seem to have good luck fishing when the lure has a chartreuse color scheme to it.
So I am thinking of getting a chartreuse colored wrench...that is unless Dover advises differently.

Probably be easier to find it when I drop it in the carpet as well. Maybe it will fall next to the loose leaf spring I have been looking for. (Forum readers that have never owned an ET2 and not paying attention here are now heard muttering - what is a loose leaf spring ? )

Frogman - thx for the link. I am a little disappointed that PB Swiss Tools doesn't offer an Audiophile "Woodie" version made from the hardest and densest wood. A Woodie wrench would have (past tense) made a great Christmas gift match to an audio friend who recently tried his ET2 with what he calls the

"ET2 Chopstick I Beam Mod"

If he sees this I dare him to post a pic here.

Who knows ...it might make it into the Annual 2015 ET2 Audiophile W(rap)

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