MC Cartridge retipping help

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Hi,
I have Lyra Lydian Beta MC cartridge, while cleaning my turntable the cloth got stuck to cartridge (which was not protected) and accidently the diamond tip came off and is lost.
Wanted help regarding retipping experts available in india (mumbai preferable) who can retip my cartridge.
 
Hi during one of my conversations with Mr Kuruvilla, he happened to mention that he knows someone who re-tips stylus. Get in touch with him. He may be able to help.

Regards,

Lifewater
 
You said the diamond tip came off ! Are you sure that's all that came off ?
The diamond is glued very well to the cantilever and it sounds impossible to be able to pull of 'just the diamond tip' which is really tiny, by brushing it with a cloth!
It's more likely that the whole cantilever has been pulled off. No way you can fix that here.
In any case a new tip with cantilever or new stylus like in other cartridges, is almost as expensive as the new cartridge itself. So it might be wise to just go ahead and buy a new cartridge itself.

Do get back to us with a picture of what you did to your cartridge. A pic tells all ?
 
Soundsmith has three grades of retip for 150, 250 and 350 (IIRC) dollars. 150 gets you an aluminium cantilever, 250 gets you ruby cantilever. Stylus on these two are same. 350 gets you ruby with a specialised stylus geometry, but this needs special attention to SRA. I once used (and broke) a Soundsmith retipped Ortofon kontrapunkt with ruby stylus.

Retipping needs specialist inspection and repair of the inside, etc. Send it to a specialist. There are retippers in UK and Germany too.
 
Sorry,was not able to reply back,busy with office work.Thanks for your inputs,I will surely get in touch with kuruvilla
 
Yes ,only diamond came off, the cantilever is perfect.when I looked though a lens the front end of the cantilever is like a fork in which the diamond is inserted.I realized the diamond is missing when I put the needle onto the record,the tonearm just slipped towards the center.
 
Here are the pics of the broken cart
 

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