Help! "Crosley" tonearm skids or skips across the record! 

My Crosley C6 worked perfect until replacing the other cartridge. It started to skip when close to the inner track. I have solved the issue already. The 4 wires inside the tone arm became little short after my cart replacement (probably I pulled them). Anyways, I opened the back cover, and pulled back the 4 wires slightly. Now, everything worked. The design was bad. They manufacture should use softer and little longer wires. Hope my experience does any help.

I have crossley and I bought new records and they skip! I try to put 10 cent coin on the stylus as a load, the skip just disappeared -.-

The biggest reason that the 'Crosley' type of turntables (they're actually made by Chinese manufacturer "Skywin") skip is down to lack of 'mass' in the arm and headshell parts. The arm is a very light aluminium tube, with a very light plastic headshell. The Chuo Denshi CZ800 cartridge used (or more often a cheaper clone of the CZ800), only weighs aprox 2 grams. The weight of the arm and cartridge combined is what gives the average tracking force of 5 - 5.5 grams. That sound a heavy figure for tracking, however, as the whole assembly together is so lightweight, the energy generated when the stylus hits a loud or dynamic part of the music, it's enough to throw the stylus out of the groove! Your BSR will be able to track more accurately, even with a ceramic cartridge, is because the arm and headshell mass are far, far higher, and using a counterweight/spring method to balance the arm/cartridge, and to set the tracking force, means that although the cartridge may be only tracking at 4 - 5 grams, the more substantial arm/headshell are not thrown so easily out of the groove by the stylus! A 1 or 2 gram weight can be added to the headshell of the Crosley/Skywin to add 'mass', but a proportionately heavier weight must also be added to the back end of the arm behind the pivot point, to counterbalance the added weight at the headshell whillst maintaining that 5 gram tracking force! This would fix some of the tracking errors, but possibly not all.... These turntables are usually OK with records from the 50s, 60s, 70s, and most 80s, however, it's the new 180 gram re-issues that cause most of the skipping problems, as these are often mastered and cut 'hotter' than the older records ever were.

I ripped off the red part on the tip of the tone arm thinking it wasn’t meant to be there. Is there a way to replace it?

Very informative, thank you

Embassy, Woolworths own brand of records, used to cost 4 bob in the 50s/60s.

Personally I would get rid of the Crosley because it’s junk. You would be better off with an audio-technica, or Stanton or even numark. Or if you just want 33 and 45 SONY is a good choice as well.

Buttalo

Yep that about covers it, I'd have that mat off double quick... ;)