Anyone try the replica B-60 Fidelity Research VTA?

''Look in the mirror'' has, except  metaphorical also some other

meanings. We ''the Serbian warriors admire and love our

Russian brothers.  Anyone can see that I usually refer to ''our''

chakster as my ''Slavic brother''.  However no single Serbian

would ever buy an Lada if he can afford whatever German car.

On eBay I regular see Russian listings but would not even

dream to buy any ''hifi stuff'' from there. In some sense this

can be described as ''prejudice''. In my case a ''double kind''.

So I am not only surprised that my Slavic brother can afford

an B-60 but much more that the thing was/ is available in

the Russian Federation. Those new rich Russians obviously

changed Russian usual market conditions.

Now regarding this ''damn screw''. After long thoughts I decided

to buy an professional (aka German+ digital) caliper. According

to ''measuring is knowing'' principle no (other) argument kinds

can surpass this one. Anyway no chance  to otherwise satisfy

Lew's criterions in such matters .

Well my steel (?) screws which caused the problem measure

at or on their ''nose'' 1.8mm while the moving collar trench

for the up and dawn movement is 2mm. My ''gun metal''

samples are 1.9 mm. So while the problem is about fractions

of one mm the results are very different. Those ''damn details''.

Those ''damn details''.

My dear ''other Slavic brother''. B-60 is not an VTA but an  SRA

adjuster. As I mentioned in my previous post those ''damn details''

are about fractions of one mm. No way you can do this with your

''PITA  method''. You need to loose two screws and manual

adjust the arm level. Then you need to use some magnifier glass

to be able to check  this pale aluminum scale on the FR-64 collar.

I am not able to see 2 mm difference on this scale. My assumption

is that you never owned the B-60 so you have no idea what you

are talking about (grin).