{"id":150,"date":"2014-02-01T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2014-06-19T19:13:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T01:13:09","slug":"collins-200-broadcast-turntable-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/collins-200-broadcast-turntable-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"Collins 200 Broadcast Turntable Restored"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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I had the chassis floating on silicone blocks to isolate from plinth, but later found the rumble excessive. Rumble reduced dramatically when chassis bolted to plinth (the manual confirms this need)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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The Micro-Track is a simple tonearm. the base is oil filled as an anti-skate device. The pivots are isolated from the gimble with rubber. It will \u00a0track to 1\/2 gram. The weight adjustments are made from the headshell. The tracking with the M91ED is set to just under 2 grams.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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This turntable was sold under various labels. The shifter housing is a separate aluminum piece. Some versions reveal the seam between housing and chassis, but Collins filled the gap with a Bondo-like material.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Bodine Motor. New idler and motor shockmounts from russcoturntables.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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signal ground is isolated from chassis ground<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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3 speed shift, neon indicator and standard bat switch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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MicroTrack tone arm is unusual, all aluminum. Most have wooden arms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Front Collins Emblem was a nice find.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Brass wafer weights under cartridge. Heads can be interchanged without adjusting rear weight.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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signal wire internal RCA connections.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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internal power connector<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Original Condition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Original Condition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had the chassis floating on silicone blocks to isolate from plinth, but later found the rumble excessive. Rumble reduced dramatically when chassis bolted to plinth (the manual confirms this need) The Micro-Track is a simple tonearm. the base is oil filled as an anti-skate device. The pivots are isolated from the gimble with rubber. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}