Can't find a specific post on this...Am I doing this right?: I put an album on, pressed "cue" and the arm hovered over the vinyl. Then I reach in and precariously flip the arm up and down whilst adjusting the counterweight to find the "neutral" spot where it kinda floats there. Then "zero" the indicator dial and then dial in 1.5 gm which my research tells me is about right for my mmc-4 cartridge. Well in theory that should work, (a bit tedious, I hope there's a better way)but the counterweight hits the back of the dust cover when I screw it out far enough to get to neutral (float). So I shut it down, removed the vinyl, (extended the stylus protector), and had to hold against the suspension springs to get clearance for the weight, keeping the tone arm in the "parked" position. This also caused a bit of trial and error because the arm is damped in this position, but once zeroed, clearance is achieved when the 1.5 gm is dialed back in. Seems there would be a better designed procedure, where'd I go wrong?---tx- Heinrich