ORIGINAL: TimC
I have 5 Saitos and the .82 is the only shaker. Any further leaning of the low speed needle results in a bog in transition as mentioned above. The .82 sits in my engine pile. I've completly disassembled it and everything checked out OK.
The crazy thing is that although my FA100 shakes like the devil, my 82 is *smooth* as silk. Even on the nose of a tired old profile (which can be twisted and bent easily by hand due to oil seeping into the wood), the 82 hardly vibrates at all.
I wish I knew why some Saitos shake so bad and some don't -- even when they appear to be identical.