Capehart Record player

[Andrew Moffat]

Hey guys

So we have this record player from the 1960's. The fm/am radio works well but the records sound like a chipmunk and play slow. 

Problem is I havn't been able to find a replacement needle. It is a Capehart SKTR1200 record 8 track radio.

[Aaron Hicks]

Try Godar in Gilbert:

http://www.godarusa.com/

Mainly an antenna place, but they fix all kinds of old electronics, and-

> Godar Electronics service center, a division of Godar USA sells vintage classic audio.Our Vintage audio service center repairs and restores vintage stereo receivers amplifiers tuners and turntables

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[cpr...@gmail.com]

From your desctiption, I'd say you've got more wrong with that unit than just a needle. Perhaps the idler wheel is also messed up, you have one or more leaky capacitors in the thing, or a ton of out-of-spec carbon comp resistors. Do you have a SAMS photofact for that unit?

http://www.antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=204039
wow! ceramic disc caps mostly, just a few papers, so that will be cheap to fix up!

Bad news though is your unit uses a static cart, those are a pain in the butt to find, so a lot of people will convert them over to magnetic and modify the pickup circuit to deal with the lower voltages that come off of it.

Get yourself a SAMS so you at least have part numbers to look up on that needle though, I do not have enough experience to tell you who made that changer for caphart though. Make an overview of it, and the problems it's experiencing and post it to youtube, there's a lot of good vintage radio/record player guys hanging around there who seem to help people!

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[Mike Bushroe]

Normally I would expect that with a slow spinning platter the record should sound very low pitched, not high and squeaky. However, if your pickup is getting old and weak then it may only b picking up the highest frequencies, and not playing the down shifted low frequencies that turning more slowly should cause. Or you might need to replace the pick up circuit regardless of which style of cartridge you use. 

I agree that if you can find a Sam's for the record player that will help a lot.

Mike