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Does Anyone Know Someone Who Can Fix BSR Record Changers?
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Does anyone in this forum know someone who can fix BSR record changers? I have a Realistic Clarinette Stereo with a BSR record changer and the spindle is loose. I have tried everything to tighten it down but failed. If anyone knows someone who does this, please let me know. Thanks in advance. Sincerely Frank R.Schoonover |
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Does Anyone Know Someone Who Can Fix BSR Record Changers?
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 08:25:17 -0800, frschoonover wrote
(in article ): To The Group Does anyone in this forum know someone who can fix BSR record changers? I have a Realistic Clarinette Stereo with a BSR record changer and the spindle is loose. I have tried everything to tighten it down but failed. If anyone knows someone who does this, please let me know. Thanks in advance. Sincerely Frank R.Schoonover I don't think ANYONE can fix a BSR changer. I had one as a kid. I believe that I paid something like $12 for it NEW from Radio Shack (then a mail-order only outlet located in the Boston Mass area). IIRC, the spindle support was a tall, steel collar in the center of the platter "depression" in the chassis plate and was peened into place. That is to say that the stepped-down end of that support passed through the heavy gauge steel chassis where the end was flattened by some kind of press (sort of like a big, hollow rivet). It is likely that this has come loose (if I'm reading you correctly). This makes the platter wobble as it rotates, especially when the changer mechanism engages - am I right? Mine did this and as I recall, I was able to fix it by taking almost everything off of the chassis (the turntable itself was held on by a "C" clip if memory serves.). Then, turning the chassis upside-down, with the spindle tower resting on the closed jaws of a bench vice, I placed a block of steel over the peened spindle support and whacked it a number of times with a hammer. This re-tightened the mechanical connection between the spindle support and the chassis plate. HOWEVER, be advised that I seem to recall that in my case anyway, the repair was temporary. In a few week or months (I don't recall exactly how long) it loosened again. The next time it happened, I replaced it with only a slightly less awful British record changer, a Garrard AT-6. |
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