Rebuilding the cartridge is not too difficult if you are reasonably handy and can handle a soldering iron. I know at one time there was a tutorial on line. The problems with replacement carts lie in tier wiight an in stylus tip height in this machine.
Ron L -----Original Message----- From: Antique Phonograph List [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 5:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Phono-L] RCA V-225 I found one of these not too long ago in pretty decent shape, and have been slowly checking it out. In case you're unfamiliar with this particular model, it's the one with the changer that can play both sides of a record without flipping it over (one side at a time, of course), then eject it and move on to the next disc on the stack. It's a 1942 model, and debuted (or so I have read) shortly before Pearl Harbor, so there aren't many of them, and I'm delighted to have found one, though I know it's going to be A LOT of work. Right now, I'm trying to figure out what to do about the two crystal cartridges: They're both dead (no surprise there). The only other phonograph of this vintage that I've owned had an original crystal cartridge that was, by some miracle, still good, so I've never had to deal with re-building or replacing one. Can anyone recommend someone (or, preferably, several people) who can rebuild these cartridges? (I don't think I'll need the entire changer rebuilt -- knock on wood -- just the cartridges.) If not, would you recommend replacing them with newer cartridges? I wouldn't be opposed to that option, as long as they wouldn't show, but I know that the needles on newer cartridges are a lot less durable, and I don't want to have to replace the cartridges more than once. What would you do? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20150126/130d3388/attachm ent.html> _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
