Conversion for Orotfon stylus gauge


Anyone know how to covert the mN (millinewtons, perhaps) on an ortofon stylus balance to mg for VTF?
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John,
You're right of course, I got it backwards AND sideways.

One Newton would be displayed by most scales as approximately 102 grams. Of course that's true only on the surface of the Earth and it would vary slightly with one's altitude above or below the mean radius of the planet. In any event that's neither a cookie nor a cake, though it might be an apple.

Of course if Swampwalker is setting up his turntable on the moon or on Jupiter his results will be quite different. If he's setting it up on the space station he's out of luck altogether, unless he has a tonearm with a spring-loaded downforce adjustment!
Holy moly. Talk about a tempest in a teapot ;~) I have a 0.1 gm electronic scale (not 0.01). I was just thinking of using the shure for very gross measurements, and then tighten it up w/the electronics. I found it in a box with my OL tonearm; perhaps it was a "throw in". I am aware of the technical differences btwn mass and force. I just "guessed" that the mN scale on the shure gauge was milli-newtons. Maybe someone can enlighten me.
If I'd been more careful with my first numbers the tea would be calmer. ;-) Yeah, OL threw out an Ortofon gauge with my tonearm too. I mean threw IN, they threw it IN, not OUT. What's the matter with me?