Cleaning and servicing Collaro

[Hydrolastic]

Hello Guys. I watched these 3 videos. https://youtu.be/sG2hHdQ7NnA https://youtu.be/_mfH0eUvSsk https://youtu.be/oSU35D5Ga9w
OMG this would be a lot for me to do! Other than wanting the turntable to work properly i don't use the turntable at all. But i found a guy on facebook (I hate facebook) He may already be here if not i think i may invite him. Pat Birch. Anyway He has a servicing deal where he was doing this for others. IDK if he just does enough to get it running of if he does a full restoration. My issue is NONE of my turntables work well enough to use consistently. The other issue is i have three different type of collaro changers. I have a couple with the wire swing arm and a couple without and one with the raised knob. Five total. I will pick one and see what we can do with it. Hydro

[electra225]

I have six Collaro changers that all work to a degree. Like yours, none work like they should. One has a wonky cartridge, the CG has a seized motor that I've tinkered with before. There is no way under creation that I am going to go to the detail shown on those videos with my Collaro changers. No way. If the basic things doesn't fix them, then add a squirt of WD-40, mine will probably stay broken unless someone wise chooses to intervene. He unsiezed the motor without taking the fan off. The fan shaft is split, so a couple small screwdrivers in the slots would let the fan come off. I see what mistake I made with the CG motor now. I didn't use near enough oil. These videos are worthwhile for anybody with a Collaro changer. Thanks for sharing

[William]

Hydro, have you tackled any of your Collaro's yet? Please keep us posted, I know I would love to know what you did, and how far you went with them.

Bill

[Hydrolastic]

Hello William, I have not touched them. I did buy a couple of changers off eBay to get spare parts but haven't messed with any of them either. only one even plays and not very good. Here it is in Feb 2020 when i got the 2st208. It plays slow. https://flic.kr/p/2mA7BiC

[chazglenn3]

The main reason that I got into consoles was to play vinyl albums. The Collaro in my CG needs attention but can be worked around which is what I do. If you just fire it up to play an LP at 33 it will be running slow. I run the platter at 78 for a couple of minutes and then 33 plays at the proper speed. The belt drive Zenith Professional in my YT960 works great.