I have a Christmas Music channel here on YT and the first year I put it up there was a couple that just had a baby that had some non life threatening problems and couldn't be taken home yet. They said that they would rock their baby and listen to the Johnny Mathis Christmas Album I put up. They said that was the only way they could get their baby to sleep. Conversely there was a Lady that contacted me and was sitting in the VA with her dying Brother in Hospice listening to my channel, gotta admit I got pretty choked up when she thanked me and told me about her Brother.
My wife and I totally remember our teachers using Audiotronics 338 record players in school. My dad taught at a small private college (rich students, poor faculty), and often brought one home on weekends and holidays as we couldn’t afford our own cheap stereo, so I’m extra familiar with this machine. I loved goofing with it like you did!
Hi John, Great video. Brought back lots of memories. My dad was born in 1920, and grew up in East Harlem where the Black, Italian, and Irish neighborhoods came together. The love of his life was jazz music. He used to go see all the Big Band greats. He amassed over 14k 78’s of music from his youth. He started recording all his records and cataloguing them. He had three reel to reels (Teac), and about a dozen turntables. He wore out everything over time and would rob parts from his stash. He worked for Kaman, Inc. I saw a Kaman box on your rack. They designed and built the Ovation guitar in CT where my dad worked. I had a pretty good collection of records including a David Sevill “The Witchdoctor” precursor to Alvin’s and the Chipmunks. I also caught a glimpse of that nice Hallicrafter Shorteave receiver. Very nice. Another great troubleshooting. Best Regards, John
Another item from the past saved. A little over a year ago I sold a couple boxes of tubes for tvs and more. There was bushings in boxes , needles , screws exc. if I would have known they could have been in New York by now. You did what we all do is make due with what we have. No radioactive items here. Good show thank you.
What a fun trip dawn memory lane. My sister had one of those phonographs. Getting it to work was priceless and of course it was only possible because of a trip to the attic. You are a great entertainer John.
Hi John,great video.I use to be a TV/electronic repair man.I serviced many "record players". I had to replace some of thr drive wheels.Also lubracate all the bearing/bushings.Then everything would work great.All the memories.
Wow does that record player bring back memories of school days! I noticed some speakers were from Lafayette. One of my Cub Scout projects was putting together a crystal radio kit that came from Lafayette. We're always in for a tour of the attic museum. Excellent show, Scout. 😄👍
Awesome find! Forgot about those old players. Great job on getting it goingand operating. Although I think most people keep their skeletons in the closet😂. Thanks again and see you Wednesday.
Enjoyed the trip down memory lane, remembered all three records you played, your Dad would’ve been proud of you. Nice repair on the ole record player, would’ve been a shame to part that one out. Like the flag, as always, thanks for the memories, enjoyed watching.
Great fix 👍 definitely remember that from school and used to run one for my class mates back in the day was a member of the school’s audio visual group and still love my records to this day 👍
Good job getting it back running. The speakers and vinyl records are going up especially good clean vinyl. I remember those records at school. They had a chime to tell you to go to the next slide or advance the film frame.
What a cool record player! I had to laugh at the snow white record! I thought we had in our collection most of what Disney sold, but we didn't have that one yet. LOL
Had hifi's and record players all through the 60's and into the 90's but never before now did I know the inner workings under the turntable. Thanks for sharing this Scout and a nice job on the reconditioning in memory of your dad.
I worked at the Charleston Naval Shipyard in Charleston, SC for about 15 years. They used to use fresh Coleman lantern mantels for simulating an actual problem. The radiation detectors they used for personnel had alarms if the detected radiation exceeded a certain level. Those mantels would set them off every time. It was a good way to make sure the guys manning these stations were paying attention! If you’re gonna play Al Green, you need to include some footage of Scoutcrafter bust in’ a move! 😂
Great job John… my dad’s nickname was “Doc” because he could fix anything!! I think I have just a little of his skill because I’m sort of handy myself. Your dad would be proud!!! Take care… The Old Army Scout…
Hey John, thanks for the shout out. You did exactly what I have done with those bushings. I've also used rubber grommets, the ones use to pass wires through. I like that old Halicrafter radio you have tucked away in the attic. Also, I've been meaning to ask who's your friend in the attic?
Your father and I would have gotten along just fine. I am 40 and I collect vintage audio equipment myself. I repair and restore vintage audio equipment as a living, and business is good. There’s a lot of people that would like to get their equipment working. Your father had good taste, Sansui receiver, JBL speakers. I wish I could’ve seen it before you sold it off. I am sure he had fantastic stuff. I’m hoping that I can get my daughters into it, but probably not. After I go, I’m sure they will sell my stuff as well, as long as it helps them out that’s all that matters.
All the people in the Bronx with RUclips channels saying, ''see those lights over there, that's ScoutCrafter's house glowing in the dark from all the radioactivity in his attic'' 😀
There's a coincidence, my wife and I were discussing my time at school while we were walking today, and I told her how I was much more interested in setting up the record player or reel to reel than any of the lessons - so this is a blast from the past for me ! High end Hi-fi certainly is an expensive business, and it's funny how Vinyl is popular again now with the younger generation !
thank you I still have my HeathKit Tuner&Amp snd my Garrard record player and my Thorens turn table... attended a J.Mathis concert in Dallas ~1981. Bernadette Peters co-performed with him. not so much Co-singing ... JM had to test after a couple songs. He put so much effort into his perfect-performance, he had to rest! then he would return for another #. find a perforance of 'Misty' on youtube and listen closely with your best spkrs, headset... and minimal distractive noises. 'tnx for the memories" (re 'Memory Lane' segment on the Gary Moore show)
Nice job getting it to work…would have liked to hear more of Snow White album…I think it was on the top 10 list for six months…🤥…oh yeah Disney every Sunday night on TV …homework had to be done and checked…such a time…🖖
Did you notice the shape of the hole in the frame for the variable spindle drive? Mickey Mouse? How appropriate to first play a Disney Record as this player was brought back to life.
I know I have said this before,= in the comments, but MAN do I pity you when you move!!!!!!!!!!!! We went through a major move 2 1/2 years ago and it threw me for a MAJOR loop - with all the stuff we accumulated over the years.
I recognized the record player from school as soon as you showed it on the street. But, a more pressing issue I need to know about. I am sure as a young lad I saw Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, probably on a Sunday evening on the Magical World of Disney. But I don't recall the scenes you posted stills of from the film. (14:22) Why is the rabbit looking through a porthole in the chair at the deer, and why does the deer have it's keister pressed against the porthole? Then in the next still - what in tarnation are these squirrels doing? Is it just me? Or were the animators running scenes that only adults notice that kids don't. The Simpsons often have jokes like this.
Great tribute to your dad and his hobby. It's a rabbit hole! TEAC fluid was for cleaning the tape heads. As an owner of some Boston Acoustic floor speakers, they are done after 30 years and you need to replace the foam surrounds due to rot -- there are no Patina Boys who are fans of of old speakers. LOL Always wondered about that 16 speed on the turntable.
Great video 👍 That Poor Man’s Flea Market is the place to be. Great view of the water and the city 🌃 at night. That vintage record player was a awesome find 👍. Always great to see the attic. There is always something pretty cool to see when you take us up there 👍. That chair 🪑 looks really comfortable. That vintage Firestone spark plug ⚡️ is pretty cool , glad to see it wasn’t radioactive ☢️, but hope you aren’t drinking coffee ☕️ out of the fiesta ware 😱☢️😂. That was a fantastic idea 💡with the plumbing washers to fix the motor mounts on the recordplayer to get that gem 💎 back to service. It sounds good as new now,again great job!👍. What a great collection of 🎶 classic tunes, It was also great to hear 👂 them play on the vintage Record player you repaired. I was also surprised how the speaker 🔊 sounded in that unit,I thought it sounded pretty good👍. I think it was so awesome to fix that vintage record player in memory of your dad👍. I bet he would have enjoyed having it in his collection. Great view from the attic of Old Glory 🇺🇸 flying in the breeze. Well again great video and can’t wait to see what you do on Wednesday.Have a great evening. 😄👍👍
Very cool repair. There is so much stuff out there that just gets thrown away because of a single fail point. In this case that bushing but its dynamics made the the whole speed selection work or not work.
Great find on the record player, John... I would imagine that a good cleaning and a bit of lubrication will fix most of the fluctuations in speed... Yeah, the old bushings can be a bit of a pain, but a record player with the 16 RPM is pretty rare these days and is hard to find... You should probably wait a bit to strip it for parts....
Your phonograph has what's called "idler drive". In a direct drive setup the motor shaft is coaxial with the platter spindle. You'd want to check the tracking force before playing a lot of records - some of those old cartridges had very high tracking force that will wear out records quickly. Modern cartridges typically operate with around 2 to 3 grams tracking force.
My Dad had some beautiful phonographs, with speed tracking RPM indicators and balance adjustment for the arm. These school record players were built heavy duty and inexpensive. 😂👍
A great hi-fi presentation. Stereophonic all the way. John now that you have a had soap dispenser do you have a poor man’s version of Boraxo? It’s over $35 for 3 lbs.
This reminds me of an uncle gave me a record for Christmas when i was a kid. I swear some people have a knack for giving useless gifts. This record was useless because i had nothing to play it on. I had a boom box with cassettes in the 80s. Record players were the 40s, 50s, and 60s. 8-tracks were the 70s. Cassettes were the 80s. Don’t get me wrong, i understand why you picked up that old record player. You’re reliving your childhood. It would be like me picking up a boom box and cassettes from the 80s, which would be weird because i was so glad when they were replaced by CDs.
The tone arm should be picked up or moved with the little lever off to the side above the stylus to help keep from skipping the stylus over the record grooves. You were operating the machine backwards. A finger under that lever and straight up to pick it up or down to lower the arm.
FiestaWare is still made by Homer Laughlin at their factory in West Virginia. Grandma collected Fiesta and used it as her everyday dishes when I was growing up in the '70s. Many was the garage sale we visited so she could find another piece. I inherited all her collection, then added more later. If you get a chance to visit the Homer Laughlin factory, you can find some good deals at their factory outlet. PS- for the most part, I've retired the radioactive pieces. ;-)
PPS- I started my career on the Middle/High School AV Crew. As I recall most of our phonographs were Califone branded. Still, just the sight of one brought back memories. I had a hand-me-down phonograph with the same drive mechanism when I was a little kid. Grandpa fixed the same problem by replacing that spring.
Your dad would have been proud of you !!. Love your poor man's flea market finds.
Repairing the record player for your dad, the best reason to fix it. Thanks for sharing this.
I have a Christmas Music channel here on YT and the first year I put it up there was a couple that just had a baby that had some non life threatening problems and couldn't be taken home yet. They said that they would rock their baby and listen to the Johnny Mathis Christmas Album I put up. They said that was the only way they could get their baby to sleep.
Conversely there was a Lady that contacted me and was sitting in the VA with her dying Brother in Hospice listening to my channel, gotta admit I got pretty choked up when she thanked me and told me about her Brother.
I always wanted to put some recordings on RUclips but the whole copyright thing has me scratching my head! 🤔
OMG! What a walk down memory lane! I half expected you to play "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archie's on a record cut out of the back of a cereal box.
I can’t believe anyone else remembers those things! Maybe SC has some stashed away somewhere.
My wife and I totally remember our teachers using Audiotronics 338 record players in school. My dad taught at a small private college (rich students, poor faculty), and often brought one home on weekends and holidays as we couldn’t afford our own cheap stereo, so I’m extra familiar with this machine. I loved goofing with it like you did!
Hi John,
Great video. Brought back lots of memories. My dad was born in 1920, and grew up in East Harlem where the Black, Italian, and Irish neighborhoods came together. The love of his life was jazz music. He used to go see all the Big Band greats. He amassed over 14k 78’s of music from his youth. He started recording all his records and cataloguing them. He had three reel to reels (Teac), and about a dozen turntables. He wore out everything over time and would rob parts from his stash. He worked for Kaman, Inc. I saw a Kaman box on your rack. They designed and built the Ovation guitar in CT where my dad worked. I had a pretty good collection of records including a David Sevill “The Witchdoctor” precursor to Alvin’s and the Chipmunks. I also caught a glimpse of that nice Hallicrafter Shorteave receiver. Very nice. Another great troubleshooting.
Best Regards,
John
John- You are indeed my brother from another mother! 😂👍
Another item from the past saved. A little over a year ago I sold a couple boxes of tubes for tvs and more. There was bushings in boxes , needles , screws exc. if I would have known they could have been in New York by now. You did what we all do is make due with what we have. No radioactive items here. Good show thank you.
When I saw those motor mounts I thought of plumbing washers. They worked a treat.
What a cool project. Your Dad would be proud!
What a fun trip dawn memory lane. My sister had one of those phonographs. Getting it to work was priceless and of course it was only possible because of a trip to the attic. You are a great entertainer John.
Good job John! I think you made you dad proud. Thanks for sharing!
You are a man of many talents , my friend, thank you for sharing them with all of us!
Just in time for my lunch break.
Never thought I'd get back up into the attic so soon! Bravo!!
Hi John,great video.I use to be a TV/electronic repair man.I serviced many "record players". I had to replace some of thr drive wheels.Also lubracate all the bearing/bushings.Then everything would work great.All the memories.
Wow does that record player bring back memories of school days! I noticed some speakers were from Lafayette. One of my Cub Scout projects was putting together a crystal radio kit that came from Lafayette. We're always in for a tour of the attic museum. Excellent show, Scout. 😄👍
I wouldn’t mind seeing more of your old mans stereos equipment. That’s my passion too.
Awesome find! Forgot about those old players. Great job on getting it goingand operating. Although I think most people keep their skeletons in the closet😂. Thanks again and see you Wednesday.
Your skills are Neverending Mr. John and at this point I'm never surprised at what you can do, but always impressed!! Have a great week!
Great Show Mate!! Your Dad will be spinning in his grave if you tear that apart for parts you know you will never use!!☻
That transformer is begging for a new use! 😂👍
Enjoyed the trip down memory lane, remembered all three records you played, your Dad would’ve been proud of you. Nice repair on the ole record player, would’ve been a shame to part that one out. Like the flag, as always, thanks for the memories, enjoyed watching.
Worth sticking around just for the Al Green track,, 👍👍
Great fix 👍 definitely remember that from school and used to run one for my class mates back in the day was a member of the school’s audio visual group and still love my records to this day 👍
Amazing that the vintage record player still works. Well done on the fix. The old electrical components held up very well.
Dave.
Good job getting it back running. The speakers and vinyl records are going up especially good clean vinyl. I remember those records at school. They had a chime to tell you to go to the next slide or advance the film frame.
Man do I love seeing that tank John.
I really did enjoy the phono repair and hearing those old records!
What a cool record player! I had to laugh at the snow white record! I thought we had in our collection most of what Disney sold, but we didn't have that one yet. LOL
As soon as I saw that I knew it was a school record player. Awesome job showing us how you fixed it. That Disney record is pretty cool as well.
Had hifi's and record players all through the 60's and into the 90's but never before now did I know the inner workings under the turntable. Thanks for sharing this Scout and a nice job on the reconditioning in memory of your dad.
I worked at the Charleston Naval Shipyard in Charleston, SC for about 15 years. They used to use fresh Coleman lantern mantels for simulating an actual problem. The radiation detectors they used for personnel had alarms if the detected radiation exceeded a certain level. Those mantels would set them off every time. It was a good way to make sure the guys manning these stations were paying attention!
If you’re gonna play Al Green, you need to include some footage of Scoutcrafter bust in’ a move! 😂
Al Green was just fantastic. You could be having a horrible day and put a little AL on and everything gets peachy! 😂👍
Awesome finding
When the day started I didn’t think I’d be listening to Snow White on the old 338 come nightfall but here I am. 😂.
Great job John… my dad’s nickname was “Doc” because he could fix anything!! I think I have just a little of his skill because I’m sort of handy myself. Your dad would be proud!!! Take care… The Old Army Scout…
Hey John, thanks for the shout out. You did exactly what I have done with those bushings. I've also used rubber grommets, the ones use to pass wires through.
I like that old Halicrafter radio you have tucked away in the attic.
Also, I've been meaning to ask who's your friend in the attic?
Some people have skeletons in the closet I have them in the attic! 😂👍
Yes, but what's his name? Gotta have a name.
Hey Señor germano... great fix. Your papá is smiling at you where ever he is. Saludos.
Your father and I would have gotten along just fine. I am 40 and I collect vintage audio equipment myself. I repair and restore vintage audio equipment as a living, and business is good. There’s a lot of people that would like to get their equipment working. Your father had good taste, Sansui receiver, JBL speakers. I wish I could’ve seen it before you sold it off. I am sure he had fantastic stuff. I’m hoping that I can get my daughters into it, but probably not. After I go, I’m sure they will sell my stuff as well, as long as it helps them out that’s all that matters.
Nice fix John! I like the old record player and I especially like that Hallicrafters S-38 in your attic! Hams like us would understand.😁73, Bill.
That was a nice project. Im sure your Dad has a big smile watching you repair the record player. Cool attic and contents.👍🏻😀🇺🇲
All the people in the Bronx with RUclips channels saying, ''see those lights over there, that's ScoutCrafter's house glowing in the dark from all the radioactivity in his attic'' 😀
My fingers were crossed for some Artie Shaw. No luck.
I definitely remember players that looked exactly like that from my early school days. Thanks.
There's a coincidence, my wife and I were discussing my time at school while we were walking today, and I told her how I was much more interested in setting up the record player or reel to reel than any of the lessons - so this is a blast from the past for me !
High end Hi-fi certainly is an expensive business, and it's funny how Vinyl is popular again now with the younger generation !
Andy- I’m waiting for film photography to make a comeback. 😂👍
Hello John, great decision in fixing the record player. 👍👏👏👏👏
you have some hifi equipment that is very vintage and sought after. I'm just amazed at the stuff you have
Lou- You would have flipped at the stuff I sold! 😃👍
Now that's an interesting attic. I'm fascinated every time you put a few frames of your attic into the vid :)
Your dad would be proud! Was that some Johnny Mathis I heard?
Yes!! 😃👍
Love the Sansui 8088 receiver you walked by when showing your Fad's HiFi equipment. Bought one in college used...still have it!
great work John sounds good 👍 🛠👌🇨🇦
The Al Green out-tro really did it for me. ♥️
Al Green had such a fantastic voice and rhythm, his live appearances were terrific! 😃👍
@@ScoutCrafter I love him too
I loved my Dad too. And My God,How I miss him.
That was a great show, ScoutCrafter, you overcame the challenges of that record player. Good for you.
Nice video.
I enjoyed a trip down memory lane! Thanks John!
Johnny Matthis, When a Child is Born... My favourite Christmas song of all time.
On “Gillian’s Island” the Professor made a Geiger Counter from scratch but couldn’t patch the SS Minnow?😜🤪😉🤷♂️🤷♀️
If you ever moved, you would create the worlds biggest poor man’s flee market
What a great video..thanks John
Restore the old phonograph. Its a piece of history.
thank you
I still have my HeathKit Tuner&Amp
snd my Garrard record player and my Thorens turn table...
attended a J.Mathis concert in
Dallas ~1981. Bernadette Peters
co-performed with him.
not so much Co-singing ... JM
had to test after a couple songs.
He put so much effort into his
perfect-performance, he had to
rest! then he would return for
another #. find a perforance of
'Misty' on youtube and listen
closely with your best spkrs,
headset... and minimal distractive
noises.
'tnx for the memories"
(re 'Memory Lane' segment on
the Gary Moore show)
The algorithm will never ding you on kopy wright. Because the sound is warped.
Believe it or not as soon as I uploaded it the copyright status came up! Both the Disney and Johnny Mathis were detected but NOT Al Green! Go figure.
@@ScoutCrafter one guy I listen to got a strike for playing his own music because someone else said it was theirs. We graduate too many lawyers.
Nice job getting it to work…would have liked to hear more of Snow White album…I think it was on the top 10 list for six months…🤥…oh yeah Disney every Sunday night on TV …homework had to be done and checked…such a time…🖖
Excellent episode. Thank you for the information on the tableware. Who knew?
another day in the trenches of "LIFE", thxs for sharing...hi Pipes
I remember those old record players! Cool find and fix up.
Did you notice the shape of the hole in the frame for the variable spindle drive? Mickey Mouse? How appropriate to first play a Disney Record as this player was brought back to life.
Believe it or not that’s the first time I ever saw that record! It was between some other ones. Very colorful! 😃👍
Im glad you didn’t strip it for parts and got it working in honor of your dad.
I know I have said this before,= in the comments, but MAN do I pity you when you move!!!!!!!!!!!! We went through a major move 2 1/2 years ago and it threw me for a MAJOR loop - with all the stuff we accumulated over the years.
Great job fixing the record player.
Nice restoration.
DazeCars just had a video using PinSol to soften hard rubber. PinSol will not fix cracks however.
That's was great find look like fun get it working again
Good stuff, boy some memories with the record player!
blast from the past!
That was awesome John. I don't know if i could scavenge parts from it now that it works😂
I recognized the record player from school as soon as you showed it on the street.
But, a more pressing issue I need to know about. I am sure as a young lad I saw Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, probably on a Sunday evening on the Magical World of Disney. But I don't recall the scenes you posted stills of from the film.
(14:22) Why is the rabbit looking through a porthole in the chair at the deer, and why does the deer have it's keister pressed against the porthole?
Then in the next still - what in tarnation are these squirrels doing?
Is it just me? Or were the animators running scenes that only adults notice that kids don't. The Simpsons often have jokes like this.
Here! ruclips.net/video/mIwa9sPFT5I/видео.htmlfeature=shared
Way to go!
Great tribute to your dad and his hobby. It's a rabbit hole! TEAC fluid was for cleaning the tape heads. As an owner of some Boston Acoustic floor speakers, they are done after 30 years and you need to replace the foam surrounds due to rot -- there are no Patina Boys who are fans of of old speakers. LOL Always wondered about that 16 speed on the turntable.
16rpm Mostly vocal spoken word- lots of bible reading records on eBay in 16rpm. 😃👍
@@ScoutCrafterHad no clue, thanks!
Great video 👍 That Poor Man’s Flea Market is the place to be. Great view of the water and the city 🌃 at night. That vintage record player was a awesome find 👍. Always great to see the attic. There is always something pretty cool to see when you take us up there 👍. That chair 🪑 looks really comfortable. That vintage Firestone spark plug ⚡️ is pretty cool , glad to see it wasn’t radioactive ☢️, but hope you aren’t drinking coffee ☕️ out of the fiesta ware 😱☢️😂. That was a fantastic idea 💡with the plumbing washers to fix the motor mounts on the recordplayer to get that gem 💎 back to service. It sounds good as new now,again great job!👍. What a great collection of 🎶 classic tunes, It was also great to hear 👂 them play on the vintage Record player you repaired. I was also surprised how the speaker 🔊 sounded in that unit,I thought it sounded pretty good👍. I think it was so awesome to fix that vintage record player in memory of your dad👍. I bet he would have enjoyed having it in his collection. Great view from the attic of Old Glory 🇺🇸 flying in the breeze. Well again great video and can’t wait to see what you do on Wednesday.Have a great evening. 😄👍👍
Steven those plumbing washers always come in handy for something! 😂👍
Very cool repair. There is so much stuff out there that just gets thrown away because of a single fail point. In this case that bushing but its dynamics made the the whole speed selection work or not work.
John It is marvelous
Great find on the record player, John... I would imagine that a good cleaning and a bit of lubrication will fix most of the fluctuations in speed... Yeah, the old bushings can be a bit of a pain, but a record player with the 16 RPM is pretty rare these days and is hard to find... You should probably wait a bit to strip it for parts....
I also love to listening a music when i was young . I thought i was alone. How did this
Good video, I like Johnny Mathis too.
There is a guy that I watch that has taken a few of these and converted them to amps for guitars. When they can’t be repaired
David- What a fantastic idea!! Wow! 😃👍
Works great don't strip for parts great video
Cool.
At thirty-six seconds, some people have one in a closet. You have one in the attic
Your phonograph has what's called "idler drive". In a direct drive setup the motor shaft is coaxial with the platter spindle. You'd want to check the tracking force before playing a lot of records - some of those old cartridges had very high tracking force that will wear out records quickly. Modern cartridges typically operate with around 2 to 3 grams tracking force.
My Dad had some beautiful phonographs, with speed tracking RPM indicators and balance adjustment for the arm. These school record players were built heavy duty and inexpensive. 😂👍
love you think of your dad so much
A great hi-fi presentation. Stereophonic all the way.
John now that you have a had soap dispenser do you have a poor man’s version of Boraxo? It’s over $35 for 3 lbs.
I think powdered laundry detergent like Foca
You got that right. I’ll be going through NYC in June. Any possibility for a face to face??
John drop me an email Bicycleguy@aol.com
Bananas are radioactive too.
I dont think there is anything you can't figure out and fix. Fiesta Ware is still made. My wife loves if.
This reminds me of an uncle gave me a record for Christmas when i was a kid. I swear some people have a knack for giving useless gifts. This record was useless because i had nothing to play it on. I had a boom box with cassettes in the 80s. Record players were the 40s, 50s, and 60s. 8-tracks were the 70s. Cassettes were the 80s.
Don’t get me wrong, i understand why you picked up that old record player. You’re reliving your childhood. It would be like me picking up a boom box and cassettes from the 80s, which would be weird because i was so glad when they were replaced by CDs.
I think it’s nostalgic for me. I like the simplicity of it too. Remember when everything was becoming obsolete in a year?
There's an interesting sub-Reddit where people post about everyday radioactive stuff. (r/radiation)
The tone arm should be picked up or moved with the little lever off to the side above the stylus to help keep from skipping the stylus over the record grooves. You were operating the machine backwards. A finger under that lever and straight up to pick it up or down to lower the arm.
I remember those from my elementary school days in the 50's. Glad you didn;t part it out.
Gotcha 👍👍
FiestaWare is still made by Homer Laughlin at their factory in West Virginia. Grandma collected Fiesta and used it as her everyday dishes when I was growing up in the '70s. Many was the garage sale we visited so she could find another piece. I inherited all her collection, then added more later. If you get a chance to visit the Homer Laughlin factory, you can find some good deals at their factory outlet. PS- for the most part, I've retired the radioactive pieces. ;-)
PPS- I started my career on the Middle/High School AV Crew. As I recall most of our phonographs were Califone branded. Still, just the sight of one brought back memories. I had a hand-me-down phonograph with the same drive mechanism when I was a little kid. Grandpa fixed the same problem by replacing that spring.
The radioactive pieces are somewhat collectible by Geiger counter geeks! 😂👍
What kind of maniac doesn’t keep a geiger counter in their attic???