Helikon run-in groove problem.....

I just wanted to keep you all posted as to my progress with this problem............
Well here I am, red-faced, and STILL with the problem unfixed!
I was centain it was the arm lift that was causing the problem. I even viewed the arm semi-pausing on decent. So yesterday, my tech friend and I changed the arm lift to a brand new one and tried it out. Some records fine.....some not so!! It almost seems as though the Hilikon cartridge needs to sit in the lead-in groove just right and if it doesn't it skips out. Does this make sense? Anyway I have tried to lower the cartridge myself by hand and this sometimes causes the cartridge to skip in........then other times (if I hit the lead-in just right-usually closer to the actual record groove) it catches the groove just right.
Now I'm wondering if it is the cartridge???? It works and sound fine when playing a record??
I am calling the cartridge dealer to see if he has heard any problems like this in the past. I hope to resolve this and keep you all posted.

I want to get back to you all on this subject and close it out...........the culprit was the anti-skating. The cable between the arm block and the arm needs to be played with to get the proper anti-skate. I played, it work.......

P.S. I also changed the arm lift but the problem still remained untill I continued to adjust the cable.
Hope this helps!

One more suggestion that might help. I'm glad that you discovered that tweaking the cable helps; however, I suspect that the cable will continue to go out of "adjustment", and it's also possible that there is more than one thing at play (pun intended) here.

I have found that on my VPI table (I'm guessing that you have a VPI table as well), if I overtighten the record clamp it will cause some records to actually "lift" slightly along their outer edge and actually lose contact with the platter. This, of course, would affect the lead-in groove the most. Try using less torque on your clamp and see if that also helps.

Good luck.