Sure sorry you were scared off, tru blu. My instructions about setting stylus force are easier to do than to read about, believe me. I was trying to make all of it useful to anybody with a Rega TT, or some other with the same general construction. That definitely includes yours. Maybe I was too wordy - and the part about libations to the turntable gods can safely be omitted, I think. (It was late at night.)

From what I've read you could upgrade, if you ever wanted to, from the Ortofon OM-5E to the 10E or 30E without changing anything else, as long as you placed the mounting screws exactly the same way. Whether there'd be enough improvement in quality to justify the cost is something I don't know. Does anybody else?

Everybody, enjoy your vinyl - inconveniences and all. (Why, oh why, doesn't somebody make a remote-controlled arm lift, to be used when the phone rings??)