phadedvision wrote:Hmm... Try taking out your needles from the cartridge and licking or breathing heavily on them (for conductivity purposes).
NO, Dont do this!Your breath contains saliva!!! And licking your stuff will leave saliva behind also!!!!
Saliva corrodes things and you don’t want that to happen to any part of your turntable cartridge or the contacts in your tone arm , you may end up with a very expensive fix if you start doing stuff like this!
If you need to clean the contacts on your tone are use a pencil with an eraser on the end, gently put it in where the contacts are and lightly move the pencil side to side...
Cleaning the cartridges is slightly trickier, i use a contact cleaning spray called Ambersil, its not expensive and works very well!
Sorry phad, but that was just bad advice...