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Originally Posted by Arr_w
ok, so once everything is up to speed, it is more-or-less a consistent force that simply needs to be balanced. The counter weight for a lightweight 9" Grace arm would work just as well on a 12" Schick arm.
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Sort of - but depending on how and where the anti-skate weight attaches, one arm may give the same weight more or less leverage versus another arm - and/or may allow for a greater range of adjustment, etc. My Fidelity Research arms fit the weight onto a mini pivoted arm that both allows for a wide range of adjustment (further from the pivot the weight is, the greater the anti-skate force), and continuously decreases the effective lever length (the arm rotates upwards towards 90 degrees, at which point the anti-skate force is 0) as the arm travels towards the inner grooves - which is cool, but since choosing an anti-skate setting is always a compromise anyways, I can't say whether that's better that simply choosing a constant "best average" anti-skate force over the whole record surface (not possible on these FR arms).