Fell asleep while TT was running with ortodoncia black cartridge!

no biggie. no problem. no worse than playing that same amount of time as records.

It's when the turntable is bounced and the stylus jumps up on the label part. That’s when it becomes a problem.

I’ve had that happen. When I had no money, like really poor, and the music was all that helped me get by.

I had a linear tracking maplenoll turntable on a wall mount.

I’d accidentally left the stylus on the dead wax grooves...and then went outside, but I had to slam the door, due to how sticky it was. It bounced, all right.....

That cost me a brand new Ortofon MC30 Super.

came back in a few hours later, no more stylus. Snapped it off on the eaten away paper label.

Ok great... thanks for your response. Feeling relieved. Just bought the cartridge fairly recently too, so was feeling extra guilty.

Get yourself a tonearm lifter.  I've tried a few and found Little Fwend to be the best - i's also pricey ($250), but well worth it.  I like to tip a few and listen to vinyl - there's no other better time - I think we can both agree on that. Audio Technica offers a version at around $130 - there may be cheaper ones on Ebay.

Agree. You should be fine.

Although, you never know about those Ortodoncia cartridges :-)

Don't worry, nothing catastrophic has happened, a lot has happened to me in the past.