Braun stylus tracking force gauge

This stylus track­ing force gauge was desi­gned by Dieter Rams in 1963 for Braun, Frank­furt. A tool for cal­cu­la­ting the ideal balan­ce for a stylus on a record player. This is a very useful and abso­lut­e­ly nec­ce­sa­ry tool for the stylus pres­su­re adjus­t­ment of the turntable’s tone arm. To cali­bra­te the opti­mal stylus pres­su­re was a common task in the seven­tieth, becau­se vinyl was the domi­na­ting music medium at that time and turn­ta­bles were in every home. Here you have a scale in pond from 0 to 8. The Shure pick-up sys­tems in the Braun audio need a stylus pres­su­re bet­ween 1.5 and 3.0. With this mecha­ni­cal stylus track­ing force gauge you can deter­mi­ne the actual pres­su­re and by tur­ning the coun­ter weight the tone arm can be pre­cis­e­ly balan­ced. For real Braun enthu­si­asts a must have.

There are only a few items available on the market in good con­di­ti­on. The ori­gi­nal packa­ge had a simple sign ‚Ton­arm­waa­ge‘ prin­ted on its cover.