THORENS TD 170-1 - Manual (Page 6)

TD170_E 6
Adjusting tone arm and pick-up cartridge
Remove stylus guard carefully. Turn the anti-skating
knob (2) counter-clockwise until it stops (Fig. 6).
Screw the tonearm counter weight (3) onto the rear
tonearm tube (Fig. 5).
Unlock the tone arm (4) a bit towards the centre of
the platter. Bring the lift-lever (5) into position
while holding back the tone arm (Fig. 6).
By turning the counter weight (3) the tone arm can
be precisely balanced in order to make it hover
freely above the platter. Move the tone arm back to
its rest.
You can now adjust the tracking force (1) and
the anti-skating force (2).
Hold tone arm counterweight and adjust tracking
Fig. 5
force indicator until “0” is in line with the marking
on the tone arm tube.
Slowly rotate the counterweight towards the tone
arm’s bearing assembly until the required tracking
force ist set.
Adjust to 15 mN (Milli-Newton) for the factory-
installed pick-up cartridge OMB 10.
As for the required anti-skating force refer to the table
below:
Scale
Tracking force (1) Anti-skating force (2)
1 = 10,0 mN 1
1,25 = 12,5 mN 1,25
1,5 = 15,0 mN 1,5
2 = 20,0 mN 2
2,5 = 25,0 mN 2,5
Fig. 6