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The "Broken Blue Point Special Club"

Geez am I a klutz! While installing a new BPS I hooked the stylus and bent it so badly that it makes a horrible humming noise. To make matters worse, I tried to "straighted it out" and sheared the stylus off completely. Can anyone confirm my fear that the next step in this process is to simply throw the thing away, or can it be repaired?
dickens
garyalex
117 posts
 
Breakage can only improve the sound of that little screecher...
lewm
13,266 posts
 
If I could find my BPS, I’d break it. But I can’t be bothered to look for it, even with nothing else to do.
neonknight
397 posts
 
Quite a few years ago I was able to buy 3 or 4 BPS with missing cantilevers. I sent them off to Andy Kim for retip, and he used a higher quality cantilever and diamond than what was OEM. The end result was a very good cartridge for not a lot of money. I sent them off to other owners, and everyone enjoyed them immensely. 

I suspect that the current BPS EVO is really the same generator as the Blackbird. Get one retipped with a boron cantilever, and a LC stylus and you will have a improved version of the Blackbird. Just my own guess of course, got no proof of this. 


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