Can you identify this Contraption on my friends Turntable Arm/Cartridge

[sparkyhx]

Someone I know is asking me if I can fix her (deceased Husbands) Turntable. She says it working loose. But I have NEVER seen anything like it. So I can investigate can anyone tell me what it is before I go up and am flummoxed?

Its on a Michell Girodec.

Thanks

 

[Integralista]

Hi, it looks like some small "help tool" to set up azimut of cantilever against platter surface. I think Michell Gyrodeck on your picture has SME arm. This should be not so difficult to set up. BR.

 

[nopiano]

Another couple of pictures would help. Is it a clothes peg with a rubber band around the cartridge? Maybe because the van den hul designs have a naked cantilever and it’s a homemade attempt to keep prying hands or dusters away?

Or that sponge spacer is an isolater that was fitted, awaiting set up? What exactly is supposedly “working loose”?

 

[Al ears]

It looks like a plastic clothes peg to me holding cartridge on with a rubber band.
Remove it...., Along with the unnecessary isolator, then recheck the required tracking force.
Note: that cartridge dies not have a naked cantilever.
Very nice cartridge by the way....