I have joined in the ZYX Family

Skills and age. We probably assume that the older people get the

more problems with their mental and physical capabilities.

Does this apply for skills? We have Van den Hul who at age

of above 70 keeps his skills in good condition by producing at

least one cart pro week. As is known his customers can order

whatever output they want. This means winding the coil wire

on those very small ''bobins'' differently. We have Axel the retipper

who is above 70 but got so many orders that he was not able

to accept all the work. We have the old master Mori san who

designed XL series MC carts for Sony. He make those SAS styli

for Jico which involve tension wire for MM carts. Those are more

difficult then MC tension wire. Technics 205 series  styli are

irreparable because ot those tension wire. To exchage their

 suspension the tension wire need to be removed but it can't

be put back. We also have Allaerts who make his own coils from

 very thin gold wire. Look at the pictires of his coils to get ''the

picture''.  Everyone who owns an ''open MC cart'' can see how

 thin those coil wire are. Who would dear to touch them? But it is

 impossible to wound those coils without touching  them.  The

 answer is  continious practice in order to keep the involved

skills in good condition. We all have the so called ''motor

 cortex'' in our brain. This part  with further brain connection

govern our muscles. Our fingers in particular. Looking at ''Pieta''

made by Michelangelo from a block of marble with chisels and

hamers. One can hardly believe that this work of art is made

with human hands. This context of skills may explain why we admire

 old masters like Ikeda, Takeda, Sugano, Van den Hul , Lukatschek

(Benz) etc.

First of all all manufacturer get their cantilever/styli combos ready made by their supplier.

Dear chakster, I own the same Airy 3 which is retipped by Axel

with his own combo of boron cantilever and nude Shibata.

According to him the Original stylus was mediocre. If you look

at the boron ''nose'' you can see that one additional tube with

stylus is glued above the cantilever. This is an additional tube

becausse one more aluminum kind is in the nose of the moving

parts(aka)  stylus/cantilever, coils and the part on which the coils

are glued. All exotic cantilevers can't be pressure fitted with

whatever stylus so the stylus need to be glued in such cantilevers.

See our cantilever discussion with J. Carr.  Your pretentions by

far exceed your knowledge. We already have had such dispute

about Technics 205 styli suspension failure which you deny but

never provided any proof except your own convinction. But you

own many of those which you want to sell. Mentionig Axel as

argument is very curious. He as my friend was not able to fix my

205 stylus but well for the to him totally unknown chakster.

Before you can teach others you need to learn the trade first.

As novice you, alas, need to have much more patience.

But as I stated before you start to look like  your model Raul.