Hello,
Just found a cool old 50-1721 in a basement. I'd love to use it. It gets a hum at high volume. It turns but no sound unless its set at high rpm so you hear chipmunks but no sound at the correct speed. Any ideas?
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Hi Zeb and welcome to the Phorum,
Several thing come to mind. Would service the chassis by testing tubes and resistors replace foil/paper caps along w/ eletrolyics. This will give you a good starting point to do any further troubleshooting.
The turntable give it a mechanical cleaning and lub. Not uncommon to find deteriorating rubber parts (driving the platen) that will need replacement. Another common issue is a weak cartridge (low output) and low tracking pressure.
After 69yrs these sets aren't a plug and play unit any more.
Thank you very much... so far that is all a mystery to me so I'll start looking into how to do all that. I'd love to get it working again.
Whatchu got against chipmunks?!
Nothing really I just don't chipmunks in my vintage pre-chipmunk turntable
HA! ok bud.
Terry is good , smart help. There's lots of good help here.
Nah just don't have a life.