Very pleased with the new cantilever and Shibata retip on my MMC4000 by Axel Shuerholz in Germany.

Posted it off from the UK and it was back in just over 2 weeks: excellent service!

The nightmare began when I snapped the plastic locating stub on the end of the tonearm on my Beogram 4000 trying to remove the MMC 20EN that I'd been using.

After a few choice words, I thought never mind I've got a spare on the parts-only deck I bought recently. I removed it from the donor deck easily enough after undoing a screw, sliding it off and unsoldering the wires on the connector board

I then removed the damaged one, only to find that this one had a completely different connector: it simply slid off with no wires visible, just brass strips on a slide-fit connector board.

To cut a long story short, I managed to make one good arm by wrecking the broken arm to extract the internal slide connection, and then soldering the wires from the good arm to it. I then made the connection and re-fitted the arm

MMC 4000 was then carefully fitted, VTF adjusted and now sounds great. Phew!