#record-player — Public Fediverse posts

An old (disk) #recordplayer takes steel needles, which have to be regularly replaced, and which are kind of rough on records.
In this little video notice that the needle is bendy. We tried a cactus thorn, and it works! They're readily available, and much softer than steel.

The #recordplayer mechanism has been returned to its owner (my "projector repair sensei") and reinstalled, and it's playing music :)

With the springs all fixed up it's time to put everything back together and wrap up this #recordplayer #restoration. But everything was covered with goopy 100-year-old oil (it looked like motor oil. Eew). So first a teardown, cleanup, and reassembly with just a few drops of light oil where needed.
Would have been a *really* quick job if (a) I had slowed down and taken more pictures of how it goes together, and (b) manage not to drop any tiny screws.

One other things I did for this #recordplayer #restoration that's just for aesthetics is getting all the rust and funk off of this crank handle arm. Started with steel wool and elbow grease, eventually a #Dremel and a wire brush attachment.

Back together and working :)
Not really together for good yet, because I didn't grease up the latest spring yet, or screw the cover onto it's barrel.
Also I want to take everything else apart and clean it all up too.
But this is nice to see.
Notice how one spring is unwinding rapidly, and the others more slowly.
When everything is all *really* back together, it'll be interesting to wind it up completely and see what the process of unwinding is like. And just how long this super-duper triple-spring mechanism can run.
#recordplayer #restoration

After all that work to fix the broken spring this #RecordPlayer I'm working on the #restoration of still didn't work. It has 3 springs and it turns out one of the other ones just wasn't grabbing onto it's shaft. There are very small hooky thing that have to grab onto the holes in the ends of the springs and things have to be lined up just right. So I had to take this spring out too, and it just needed a little bending on the end to wrap more tightly off the shaft. But first, let's get that 100-year old grease off of it. Hot (like boiling!) soapy water makes this easier.

Continuing with fixing this spring as part of a #recordplayer #restoration.
Since the inner end of the spring broke off, what remained didn't coil tight enough to wrap around the shaft.
I used a torch to soften the metal and some pliers to twist it to a tighter coil, and now it snaps on.

I saw a young person talking about how they just bought 6 vinyls from their favorite artists but that they didn’t have a “vinyl reader” to play them on yet, and I think I felt my face slide off.

#vinyl #RecordPlayer #HelloFellowKids #vintage

More updates about fixing a spring for a #RecordPlayer #restoration. Not a cylinder player this time, this is a Grafonola disc player that belongs to my "movie projector sensei".
It turns out that when you mention you fix record players, a lot of people have them. And most of them need work, and if it just plain doesn't work, it's almost always the spring.
The last time I worked on a spring, it was a success, but I sort of wished I'd done a neater job. Another chance came along quicker than I expected! (Descriptions in alt text)

I got The Lawrence Arms on the record player!

#TheLawrenceArms #PunkRock #RecordPlayer #Vinyl

#NowPlaying The original 1977 soundtrack from Star Wars by John Williams. I'm listening to it on YouTube and this is one of the best videos I've seen - it's a video of the entire album being played on a record player! Fantastic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HyEXrrihYE

#StarWars #Music #JohnWilliams #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #ClassicalMusic #Soundtrack #Vinyl #RecordPlayer

Electric guitar + vinyl = win:

#design #phonograph
#ElectricGuitar #recordplayer

https://www.designboom.com/technology/electric-guitar-shaped-turntable-vinyl-records-frosted-platter-wooden-base-clearaudio-al-di-meola/

Meanwhile, back on the #CylinderPlayer project. I found an Edison speed governor that turned out not to be from the same model of player (different threading for the connection with the mandrel gear) but the weights were compatible so I put them on this machine's original governor. And now things are running pretty nicely.
#RecordPlayer #Restoration

Here's the two spring barrels. A big one that has two springs, and a small one with just one. The big one is the one that was actually turning when I moved the crank, so I figured the problem was likely there. Sure enough, one of the springs in there was sheared, pretty close to the shaft attachment.
#Grafonola #recordplayer

To get the spring barrels off of the shaft, you need to press out the shaft. First remove a couple of little screws that hold the bearings in, then get the shaft out by giving it gentle taps with a small hammer and something like this long bolt (which has a non-pointy end). #Grafonola #recordplayer

Taking a detour from my #cylinderplayer project to look at a friend's Columbia #Grafonoloa #recordplayer. The symptoms are that if you turn the crank, you get a little resistance, then a little "klunk" sound, and then it freewheels. Sounds like a spring issue. Either detatched from the shaft or broken.
I should have taken a picture of the whole player, but here's the extracted mechanism, which I brought home to look at. And an add that shows more or less the model I'm working on,
Seems to be a deluxe triple-spring one, which gives you extra-long runs on a single wind, but means there's more places to check for a break.
That ad shows a girl listening to a Grafonola on a camping trip, like a steampunk iPod. I guess you could, but these things are a bit heavier than an mp3 player!

Saturday vibes #AgingPunks #Victrola #RecordPlayer #Jungle #ForEver

AUDIOPHILE MAN - HiFi REVIEW
This is a V2.0 of my van den Hul Crimson Elite XGW cartridge review. The original had some B-roll issues so I did the decent thing and re-edited it. I also added some extra signage.
Click: https://youtu.be/stkra2gPxe4
#VinylPlayback #MovingCoil #HiFiLife #AnalogAudio #RecordPlayer

AUDIOPHILE MAN - HiFi REVIEW
Testing the van den Hul Crimson Elite XGW. 
Low mass, huge dynamic reach and startling midrange clarity.
 Set it up right and it sings.
Click: https://youtu.be/GX4IvaGlZTU
#VinylPlayback #MovingCoil #HiFiLife #AnalogAudio #RecordPlayer

While at #Walmart I stumbled upon this in the electronics section. Record Vinyls and Record Players. Makes you wonder how bad the 'digital' music market is to start selling physical media again that was popular decades ago. I'm not complaining. Perhaps that the vinyls are stuck behind lock and key, but I for one am happy to see shit like this make a comeback. Anyway, what year is it? #Vinyl #RecordPlayer #Shrek #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy #Metalica #Chromakopia #StrayKids #BobSegen

This is odd. Edison #CylinderPlayer s have these little screws so that you can adjust the level of the reproducer (and stylus) relative to the cylinder. My original player has one, but it's missing in the one I'm fixing up now. I have no idea what size it's supposed to be. I went to a local #ACEHardware and searched all over for one that would fit.
I found one that seemed to. But it's metric! That can't be correct, can it? It fits with a little wiggle, but so does the original, actually. They were only $0.47 each, so I took some home. Cheap enough to get as an interim and toss if I find a more accurate fit later. (Would have been a low-cost shopping trip, but they have a big display of jars of honey and BBQ sauce to catch you on the way out).
I will be consulting with the masters of the cylinder player internet over this.
#RecordPlayer

#TheParksForThe34thTokyoDrift hits the rails as I make my way from #Tokyo to #Osaka onboard the #Shinkansen! Join me for the journey, an Ekiben for lunch and checking out the Hotel She, Osaka - where every room has a #Vinyl #RecordPlayer - perfect for my #TaylorSwift #Showgirl Era! http://youtube.com/watch?v=BtYYcIyjyH4&feature=youtu.be http://tvpauld.com/2025/12/06/i-went-from-tokyo-to-osaka-at-270-km-h-on-the-shinkansen-bullet-train/

I got that record!

https://streetartutopia.com/2021/12/23/i-got-that-record/