Classic Hifi Care

this is a flip over cartridge , not sure which one it is ... as you gotta remove the tone arm to get access to it... one side is almost dead barely and sound , what would you suggest as a good replacement for this?
Thanks...

I'll bet that's a crystal cartridge. I have a little GE stereo with an Astatic 208-1 cartridge. Gary had a replacement for it and you can also get them online. I linked a source in Parts and Service Suppliers, they are in Oklahoma. A member stated they had used that vendor with good results.

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Do they still have these?... are they any good after all these years?...or are they newly made?

I'm assuming they are NOS. Gary stands behind what he sells, and my understanding is the lady in Oklahoma I linked does as well. The only alternative is to use a ceramic cartridge after you figure out a way to include a pre-amp of some kind. Since you have a VM changer there, you can change the tone arm to work better with a ceramic cartridge. I read an article in a magazine I have that said if you use a 50EH5 as an output tube, a ceramic cartridge may drive it enough to provide adequate volume with no pre-amp as a sub for a crystal cartridge. Your definition of "adequate" may differ from the author of that article. I decided that my little GE was not going to be a "front line" stereo, something I was not going to use much, but I wanted it to work. Gary cautioned me that crystal cartridges didn't track as well as a ceramic, so not to play my best records with a crystal cartridge. I would play 45's or 78's on it mostly, so no worries there. Plus, I didn't want to have to modify the PCB chassis to accommodate a pre-amp stage.