2008 Crosley CR49 = junk

[radiotvnut]

Originally Posted by jpdylon

I had the exact same model come in today for repair! The owner had not had it three weeks before its first failure. This one was actually manufactured in 2009 - so it must have been sitting on the shelf before he bought it.

The failure was lack of support for the volume control / on off switch. The pot is mounted on a small PCB that is at a 90 degree angle from the mainboard. The only thing holding the small pcb to the mainboard is solder! After some jumpers and epoxy to keep the board still it ran again.

More cheap junk from china.....

OMG! I noticed the way the pots mounted to the chassis; but, I didn't look to see if there was anything holding them on besides the solder.

If I fixed something like that for someone, I'd tell them that it was working again for the moment; but, I couldn't guarantee how long it would last. I'd also advise them not to spend any more repair money on it.

The last "replica" that I attempted to fix was a late '90's-early 2000's era Thomas table model radio/phonograph/side mounted cassette player. The only thing that worked was the radio and it sounded worse than a cheap '60's pocket radio. the tape player and the turntable both had defective motors; which, were not available. I ended up giving the guy a '60's Newcomb tube type classroom record player and he was very happy after that. I ended up giving the Thomas to someone to use for a radio.

As far as the turntable in the Crosley, I've seen basically the same one in the cheapest of "all in one" stereo's from the late '80's and '90's. The only difference was that the older ones only had two speeds.