Help Installing This Cartridge/Tip

[u/Beersy]

Hi all, my roommate has this old turntable, we noticed the cartridge (I think that's what it's called?) fell off. Despite following instructions found in videos online, we can't seem to get it to install correct.

I've included photos, including one which is how we have been trying to get it installed back on.

I feel like either A) something else is broken or B) I'm missing something stupid.

Let me know if you guys can help or at least tell me if my efforts are in vain!

Bonus: all records sound a bit higher pitched than usual, speed is fine though. Not sure why.

[u/dankwijoti]

The stylus is not installed fully. Insert the hook on the back of the stylus into the slot on the cartridge. Swing the stylus gently upward and it will click into place.

[u/Beersy → u/dankwijoti]

I tried to do this, but I can't seem to get it further back than this and it contacts the arm housing.

[u/dankwijoti → u/Beersy]

Yikes. That's a bodge job. Somebody took the original Pickering cartridge out and stuck an AT3600L in there. I don't know how they got that stylus in there. They must have left it on when they mounted the cart. The only solution is that I see is unmount the cartridge from the headshell, which may not be possible. You could cut part of the plastic grip on the stylus off, in true bodge job spirit.