This is my own turntable I've just gotten
out of the closet. I'd like to listen to some of my 70's records. The
unit I'm working on is an old Thorens TD160 turntable with an Stanton
gold body 500 cartridge. The cartridge is equipped with the elliptical stylus
designed to track at between 1 and 2 grams. I'm presently tracking at
1.25 grams without any apparent problems.

I would like to set this up as accurately as possible. I'm hoping that
someone can advise me on this. The manual I have is for a
slightly different unit with a newer tone arm, and all it mentions
about anti skate is to set it just slightly lower than your tracking
weight. It seems to run fine what ever anti skate is set to and
although I've made that adjustment to just over 1, I would like
to be a bit more precise than that if possible.

I thought I recall (way back when) that there was a procedure whereby
you leveled the unit, and then you played this "record" without
grooves. If the stylus remained in one spot without drifting then your
anti skate was correct. If it drifted, then a slight adjustment on the
anti skate was in order. I don't have any such "record" and I can't
think of a way to do something like that without damaging the stylus.
I was wondering if anyone had any further information pertaining to
this procedure? Thanks, Lenny