Dear Lew, The round plate before VTF adjuster has only decorative
function. To get inside the arm this plate need to be removed. This
plate is glued with a kind of ''weak glue'' but is, alas, not easy to
remove . When removed the first thing we can see is the spring
which has two functions. One is for the VTF adjustment the other
is dynamic function of the arm. The mentioned spring is ''loaded''
in grease which can harden as function of time. Dertonarm advised
''watchmaker method'' to make the greas liquid: ''put the arm in the
sun''. In my case this was not sufficient so I removed the old sticky
greas from the spring and put new ''fresh grease'' instead. The VTF
adjuster works smood since while possible resonances are
supressed by the grease. Now regarding ''damping'' . I owned
Triplanar VII for some years but never used ''damping provision''
with oil ''can''. Nor deed anyone else to my knowledge. So the
Triplanar also lacks damping according to Raul. BTW you are
wrong about ''inanimate objects''. ''Der Tonarm'' means the tonearm
in English and both refer to an inanimate object but one of our
former member has chosen this name as his member name.
Yuo obviously ovelooked the real object of Raul's hate.