Sep 27, 2006 07:34 am Quote:
My record player is a jerk
Never anthropomorphise record players...they don't like it.
My record player is a jerk
Posted on Sep 27, 2006 07:31 am
Johnny Hero
Member Since: Apr 26, 2002
Lately, it's been doing this thing where it drops the needle on the record for about a second, and then picks it right back up and puts it away again. I then have to wait for it to stop spinning and put the arm back in the rest position before I can hit start again, which takes about 30 seconds. I have to repeat this process about 20 or 30 times before it finally gets the hint that I want to listen to more than the first 2 seconds of the record.
Right now, it's finally had it, and so have I, because I'm going on 50 starts and I still haven't gotten it to play. Any idea what the hell is wrong with it? Maybe it just doesn't like Elvis Costello as much as I do?
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Sep 27, 2006 07:34 am Quote:
My record player is a jerk
Never anthropomorphise record players...they don't like it.
Sep 27, 2006 08:27 am Hey, I wouldn't have to call it a jerk if it would just play the damn record.
Sep 27, 2006 12:31 pm Tape a penny to the stylus arm.....
F*** - I just aged myself, didn't I?!
Sep 27, 2006 02:07 pm Dated ! : p
Tall Chap is right, though... it just may work .
Sep 27, 2006 03:02 pm What, like, on the top?
I very, very vaguely remember my dad having a penny taped to the arm of his record player... but I don't remember where or why... then again I was about 2 years old when he died...
Sep 27, 2006 03:37 pm My turntable has a counter weight on the end that adjusts the downward force of the needle. I thought that most turntables do as well. This would eliminate the penny trick.
Sep 28, 2006 12:36 am Quote:
Tape a penny to the stylus arm.....
A common trick used by "scratch" type DJ's.
A good idea, however this can prematurely wear out your records if it's too heavy...
Go for the lightest weight coin possible and place it as close to the fulcrum of the arm as possible to still achieving the desired result
a blob of blu-tac works the same but doesn't look as "old-school"
Sep 29, 2006 06:45 pm I do believe it is probably the mechanism that resets the tone arm after play is finished. The switch might be stuck. If you can remove the bottom of the player or sometimes the switch is visable near the rear of the tone arm. You can look to see if it is stuck. It is just a little trigger switch that when the LP is finished the tone arm mech bangs into it and triggers the reset/rest sequance which then turns the motor off and sets the tone arm up into the cradle.
I tused to happen with some of my older players and my old Thornes turntable, but never with my newer ones.
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