Hello everyone,
I am new to the forum and appreciate any help I can get. I just picked up a beautiful Victrola Crestwood 612 v4. the cabinet is in very good shape with a few slight scratches. The radio works perfectly, to include the Wave, Broadcast, Modulation. The only issue is that the record player does not seem to work. It is missing the needle (which i could use help identifying and procuring), and motor seems to whirl but record player does not spin. The arm appears to be locked when turned on as well. Not sure if I am doing something wrong but it cannot play a record.

Any suggestions would be grateful.

Get it restored, before something POPS.

Where are you located? Maybe someone on here is close enough to give it a look.

And, yes, have the electronics restored or be willing to learn the necessary skills to do it yourself. There will be old capacitors in this unit that need to be replaced with modern parts. Those old capacitors can short without warning and it really will POP and you may end up letting the smoke, as well as some fire and odor, out of an expensive transformer that may be hard to find.

Most of these old record changers will need to be taken apart, cleaned, and relubricated. Any rubber parts (idler wheel, motor mounts, etc) will also likely be defective and need to be replaced. Lastly, the pick-up cartridge is probably bad. You can get cartridges and motor mounts from www.thevoiceofmusic.com and they can also rebuild the idler wheel.