Repair of a Crosley CR49 record player from 2002
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- Once again, we get to see the low quality construction of these modern record players. This particular model is a little better than some of their other models; but, that isn't saying much.
I think this is the very first TH-cam repair video of a modern Crosley phonograph.
It's sad to belong to someone else when the right one comes along,
Bryan,
Those Crosley turdtables are a real piece of junk.
I just found a portable Airline, dual speaker, high fidelity record changer from 1956 that will run circles around the Crosley every day of the week and twice on Sunday. My new 5 tube Airline even has a built in AM radio. I just ordered capacitors and resisters so I can overhaul the amplifier/radio. Cost of this little beauty was $10.00 at a radio estate sale and once restored, it will last another 60 years. Amazing, Made in USA quality.
Regards, Tom
My dad had this and all I had to buy was a power supply. I plugged it in and all that came on was sound and red light.
By watching your video you show that the arm needs to go to the right to get the turntable to spin. IT WORKS now. Thanks
hello, Great video. my son says it's a Crosley Cheapstake model (he's 11)we found out its official name is "keepsake" model.
CR49. If you turn the 9 around it looks kinda like a P, so basically they named it Crosley CR4P, or crap.
"Wall Wart" power supply...U crack me up, Bryan! Yeah, gotta LOVE that high quality chinese JUNK! I woulda told him he should throw it in the garbage & bought a vintage 1 off of you!! At the tail end of having my shop, you don't know how many of these I'd get in with the complaint being "platter won't rotate" and all it was was that they didn't know how to move the arm to the right to "reset" the auto-stop mechanism. What a convoluted piece of JUNK those things are! Geez!
14 years lifetime is impressive for a Crapley. Certainly is more rugged than the Cruiser, and kind of appears to have a little bit more circuitry, though not sure. The board looks a little bigger to me, not that it means anything.
Nice repair, good to see the player working again. Crosley products are usually considered throw-away these days, it's not worth the labor & parts to fix them for what the units cost.
the crosleys today are crapleys
You're a more patient man than I, for being willing to work on this junk. I love how the 45 center hole adapter seems to rotate in fits and starts.
My model's input jack has completely broken off. I have only the internal red, yellow, brown wires sticking out where the power input should be. How would I go about fixing this? Thanks.
Repair instructions for a crosley
1- take a hammer
2- hit the crosley with a hammer
3 Put it in a shredder
Lol
@@riverhuntingdon6659 A wood chipper, Fargo style.
Enjoyed your video!
Good reapair ......save you the problem getting another part ....
I would have thought the appropriate repair method for a Crosley with a broken power port would be more hot glue. ;)
Or a sledgehammer...
Or a 1996 Lexus LS400. ;)
Very nice and quick repair. Thx4sharing
Got these here too
I'm surprised that didn't wind up in the landfill in 2003. Maybe all the others did (in 2002) and that's the only one in existance! That ought to sell for a fortune! (ok, maybe not!)
I didn't know Crosley was making record players in 2002. Looks exactly the same as the ones they sell now.
I waiting for someone to beef up a Crosley, like replacing the motor, platter, needle, amp etc... to be a good quality player.
That's the way I would've handled it, just bolt the jack in. Wow, what a piece of crap.....I'm surprised that the rubber band that drives the platter isn't broken yet.
I wouldn't even bother. a friend of mine was looking to by his friend one and told him no don't it will ruin your records. so last Saturday he turned up with a 60s record playing not working of course but within an hour I lubed up the bsr record changer replace the capacitors and hey presto he now has a quality machine al for 20 uk pounds
Proof that even in 2002, Crosley was not a name that came to mind when the word "quality" comes into play............
Hi! Just wondering if you sell some of the radios you repair, privately or on Ebay? I'm looking for a am/fm tabletop smallish/medium radio. I don't want to buy something new that includes other connectivity etc. I'm in the San Antonio TX area, Don't know where you are but I can pay full shipping etc... no problem. Just want a decent vintage radio that might work for awhile.
Can you help me I have a ge wild cat record player that has started to run fast other then that nothing wrong with it.
is the speed adjustable on these? ? i have one runs slow on 33rpm
As far as I know, the speed of these can be adjusted by playing with the trimmers at the back of the motor (which I wouldn't recommend) or by adjusting the circuit that runss the motor. If you are lucky you'll find one or two trimmer pots on the circuit board that will adjust that, but I would really expect from Crosley to have done away without them to save a cent.
Good point. It might actually be cheaper to make a digitally controlled 2 or 3 speed synchronous motor (sometimes referred to as a "brushless DC motor) than to pay a Chinese child (OK, maybe an adult with a few weeks of training) to adjust all those screws. As long as the chip and the quartz oscillator lasted, it would be more reliable than these enlarged cassette player motors. I assume that the reason items like this no longer use induction motors is the variation in voltages and line frequencies throughout the world.
Though the motors in these, which I heavily suspect are surplus tape deck motors, need at most passive circuitry (prolly just resistors) to regulate them, which is way cheaper than a chip with a quartz resonator. Perhaps Crosley doesn't even bother to regulate them, and relies on the average characteristics of the motors used.
And as far as I know, the record speeds have been standarized so they could be easily aproximated with induction motors around the world. There were even motors that could be made to run on all line voltages, they had two field coils you could wire in parallel for 100-120 V and in series for 220-240 V. Of course, these motors have a lot of metal and are expensive. I know the Garrard RC-80 had one of these, for instance.
I don't agree with the naysayers. Anything that is a challenge is worth a shot. Just to feel like a success instead of a loser all the time. I fix things, but not always successful.
what size ac is that i know it's a Frigidaire:)
8:03 A cheap ceramic cartridge are more robust to that kind of accident. If that happens to a magnetic cartridge the diamond might fly away because the glue is so thin to keep the moving mass small.
Odd that it still works after the years... I hear Crosley is making high tier record players now?
I think the Fisher Price kiddie turn tables were better built...
But, they were fitted with tamper-resistant tri-groove/Holt screws to discourage user repairs.
Whats the song at 6:50
I was amazed that the power pack was not stabilized at 12 volts. That was quite a high quiescent voltage.
@Michael Beeny I thought the same thing when I saw those voltages. I would have thought there was some regulation built into those power adapters.
That's pretty common when your dealing with cheap crap from China..
ElfNet Gaming The inside of the unit are all splattered with Super Sporm in which the Chinese people who worked in the factory has splattered into the unit after doing its masturbation while seeing porn. Hot glue is Super Sporm.
Bryan why haven't you posted any new weekly new video's? I'm not seeing any new videos you use to upload more new video's📺📺📺📻📻
what a lovley record player ! wow LOL
Well it very much resembles the construction of late 1980s turntables found on widely accepted systems like the Yorx/Schneider Newave.
I'm not happy about the one o bought, the idler piece got bad. It was a good sounding player ( crosley collegiate) . It had a tone button and i bought an audio technica cartridge. After 4 years it died. Tried oiling the idler , dped up to chipmunk singing then. Oh well. Of course, they don't make that model no more. Other ones, imo, don't sound good. God bless your endeavors with sound.
My brother has a record player like that, even with the moving the tone arm to the right to start it. I think his was sold under the "Soundesign" brand, I know it isn't a Crosley.
That mechanism was fitted to many different cheap and not so cheap for the lack of quality stereo systems, record players from the late 80's till now.
I had Crosley but the belt broke and the CD the only think that worked was the radio and cassette I now have a boytone which I use to pit to mp3 so I can brun it to a CD audio and select the mp3 wen done
That's fixable with a really big sledge hammer. i have a nice 30 pound sledge just for the job too.
I'm honestly shocked Bryan would even work on one one of these. Things must be slow. Being from 2002 surprised it still worked. Must have sat in the closet most of the time.
Can I send you a QSL card?
Wow , can't believe your working on this modern junk!....
If I were you I'd take it off their hands and give them a new better quality player!
Sony Trinitron Same, except once i "took it off their hands" I'd get out the sledgehammer and put it out of its misery. Haha
It's funny to read the comments about how crappy this turntable is. As we age, we inevitably lose hearing sensitivity, predominantly at the higher frequencies. That makes it less and less important that these inexpensive turntables have weak bass rendition. They're overbalanced to the treble, which is exactly what our elderly ears need to compensate for what we've lost at that end anyway. We hear less treble, the turntable produces more than it should. As dreadful as this piece of gear probably sounds to young ears, it's not bad to my old ones. Not great, but not bad.
User instructions for your new compact lightweight state of the art Crosley record player 1 do not open carton 2 locate sales reciept 3 return to place of purchase for a full refund!
good work !
however it's more satisfying to throw a bowling ball at these things....
I was at Goodwill last night, and I saw the same exact model, and it was made in 2001. I didn't want to get it, because Crosley stinks when they made this one, and I looked at the bottom and it says "Made in China". The price sticker says it's about $30 to $40, and I'm not going to buy this Chinese made garbage at Goodwill, sorry!!!!
the person should have just put that trash in the bin to go to the land fill
not take it to you to fix what a waste of time and money
I wouldn't even bother fixing these cheap crappy things. Just buy a decent turntable if you want good quality.
Could you make me feel dumber.
Chinese made stuff much better than old American and European electronics. Chinese items will out last it 5 times longer at least.
Didn't listen to Nancy Reagan
+audubon5425 you do recognise sarcasm don't your?
+Direct78 Broadcast of course
Hi
What a load of crap - and I see these all the time in shops.
Warm regards
Richard
CR49=CRAP49