I just played some vinyl records with steel needles and under the microscope they are just needle shavings and sometimes scratches on the bottom of the grooves witch comes from poorly balanced tonearm.
Surprisingly no. The stylus used is a regular "soft tone" steel needle. The trick is to first play an old 78 for about a second before playing the vinyl. This dulls the needle just enough to not completely gouge out the soft vinyl while still amazingly being able to fit in the small grooves.
That vinyl record was never meant to be played with steel spikes on an a Gramophone. It was meant for a diamond stylus of no more then a few grams. Great way to destroy a vinyl record !
I appreciate the concern but I only play vinyls on my gramophone if they are old, badly scratched and near worthless or if they are modern and still being manufactured. In this case, this old record was in poor condition when I found it in the bargain bin of a local record store. Personally I don't see the problem in having a little fun.
@@oldradiosnphonographs There are all those junky repro gramophones on eBay from India that claim they can play vinyl. I don't think you would be surprised at how many people believe that they can.
I didn't do anything special. The built in speed control knob lets it go low enough. I think I just got lucky with the type of motor in this machine. Hopefully I'll be able to get the speed more consistent.
In the video description I explain the adjustments I made to the gramophone to get it to successfully play a vinyl record. I suggest watching the whole video as you will see me wind the machine as it is playing which causes the rpm to get a little erratic since the motor is not designed to maintain 33rpm. Also towards the very end of the song the spring motor thumps which causes the needle to skip on the record. This is heard very clearly.
Not a rare record, so what the heck! Sounds better then I expected!
Good to know if the world runs out of power we can still play out lps lol
Sounds amazing! Do you know that Beatles singles were issued on 78 in India. Thanks for playing!
I've heard about those! Very rare and very expensive!
@@SuperiorSandbox Yes, indeed!
OMG! Speechless
Fabulous! How's the Saturn Vue?
Oh no that vinyl will be ruined that's terrible I hope you find something better to play on there
Sounds slower than 33.33 rpm though. What have you used to measure it?
They probably measure it by hand. (They count every turn a record makes for 1 minute.)
Sounds Great! This good be a good technique for music in horror movies.
Definitely, it's very ominous hearing music play on something like this.
Fun to play I know, but what a way to completely ruin an LP! LOL! Where there shreds of vinyl pleeling off as it played?!
I just played some vinyl records with steel needles and under the microscope they are just needle shavings and sometimes scratches on the bottom of the grooves witch comes from poorly balanced tonearm.
Since they are using a dull tin needle, you could barley see anything under a microscope.
Did you mod the needle with a regular stylus ?
Surprisingly no. The stylus used is a regular "soft tone" steel needle. The trick is to first play an old 78 for about a second before playing the vinyl.
This dulls the needle just enough to not completely gouge out the soft vinyl while still amazingly being able to fit in the small grooves.
@@SuperiorSandbox At one time they did mike Sapphire spikes.
That vinyl record was never meant to be played with steel spikes on an a Gramophone. It was meant for a diamond stylus of no more then a few grams. Great way to destroy a vinyl record !
I appreciate the concern but I only play vinyls on my gramophone if they are old, badly scratched and near worthless or if they are modern and still being manufactured.
In this case, this old record was in poor condition when I found it in the bargain bin of a local record store.
Personally I don't see the problem in having a little fun.
@@SuperiorSandbox Hopefully people will read your answer here so they don't think it's OK to play Vinyl records on an antiquated Gramophone.
Yeah, the Beatles made millions of records and I assume you know well not to play anything rare or in good shape on a machine like that.
@@oldradiosnphonographs There are all those junky repro gramophones on eBay from India that claim they can play vinyl. I don't think you would be surprised at how many people believe that they can.
@@HaggisCat1 smh
Nope. Sounds terrible. Plays too slow. 👎
How did you get the platter to spin so slowly? The consistency isn't great but it's way better than it should be!
I didn't do anything special. The built in speed control knob lets it go low enough. I think I just got lucky with the type of motor in this machine. Hopefully I'll be able to get the speed more consistent.
Fake
How?
@@Fyleveld it’s so easy to tell… can’t you?
In the video description I explain the adjustments I made to the gramophone to get it to successfully play a vinyl record.
I suggest watching the whole video as you will see me wind the machine as it is playing which causes the rpm to get a little erratic since the motor is not designed to maintain 33rpm.
Also towards the very end of the song the spring motor thumps which causes the needle to skip on the record. This is heard very clearly.