LAST???? Has anybody tried this?

When I worked at a Linn dealer, Ivor Tiefenbrun himself was visiting our store, and used a match striker to clean the stylus. When we questioned him about it, he said it was the best way to clean a stylus, as long as you knew it was a well made one, and you know since it was a Linn cartridge, he knew it was a well made one. I used a match striker to clean my Linn Karma stylus for years thereafter, and found great results with no damage, even though the thought of it is a little frightening. If you use a paper matchbook striker, remove the staple first, because the staple can hook the stylus and rip it off or bend the cantilever. Just lightly stroke the stylus forward once or twice on each side on 45 degree angles to remove residue from the contact areas. That's it.

In fact, now that I recall, Linn were giving out matchbooks with the Linn logo on them bearing the inscription of "Linn Stylus Cleaner". I saved one for many years, but lost it in the last move.

Casey(extremephono) was telling me that he thought it was merely 3M 300 grit.Not sure how this would do in the nooks and cranies.He is sending a product he markets which is a sticky solid compund simmilar to what Fremmer metioned in an article recently except it's a hell of a lot cheaper than the one in the article costing $75.I'll post as to what I think but hey even now my guess is it couldn't hurt if used in conjunction with another form of cleaning though as he states earlier in thread he's against the lquids.Get in touch with him here or see what he has on ebay at www.extremephonp.com.He might not be a shameless self promoter but he's steeredme right in the past about Linn so I thought I'd give him the plug.