mmf-5 again

How are blancing the arm? How are determining how much tracking force you are applying?
The anti-skate will pull the arm to the spindle or the center of the record.

Is you turntable level? (very important)

Boxingnun,

I used to own a MMF5 & never had a problem with it.

Like Rockinroni suggested above, ENSURE your 'table is level. Use a external bubble level i.e. do not rely on the level provided on the plinth.

If you have a stock Goldring 1012, then playing weight or VTF should be 1.75gms. Dial it in thru the marked counter-weight. If you have a Shure gauge, double check the VTF.

Place the anti-skate thread in the MIDDLE slot (of the provided 3 slots) on that metal protusion near the arm pivot.

You should be ready to go! Your 'table MUST be level before you can even begin to set VTF & anti-skating.

Oh, defeat the anti-skating (i.e. do not attach the anti-skating thread) while setting/dialing in the VTF.

This will sound very stupid, but here it goes. Once the arm is balanced at 0 (sits on the record), I turn the little guage on the weight to 0, then turn the whole thing until the guage is about 2/5 of the way towards the 5. The table is level. I listened to it last night and I loved it, but I can't get it to keep going.