That is exceptionally cool!Originally Posted by Old Guy
Makes me wish i'd found a safe place to keep our Capehart instead of selling it. This is rare stuff that most people don't know existed.
Tired of turning over your records? Lincoln turntable
Lincoln Series 50 Changerhttp://myvintagetv.com/Carsten/HPIM0151.MPG
Your neighbors called. They like your music.
That is exceptionally cool!
Makes me wish i'd found a safe place to keep our Capehart instead of selling it. This is rare stuff that most people don't know existed.
Not all vegetables make good leaders.
What a cool design. Plays both sides of 20 LP's without interruption! Perfect machine for those all night dance marathon contests and sock hops back in the 50's and 60's! I would love to own one of those--would have been especially handy during my single days. I remember one girlfriend in college complaining that if we wanted to listen to LP's while, umm, snuggling, I'd have to get up every 20 minutes to flip the record over or put on a new one. I think 16 hours would have been just about right!
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Being of "Sound" Mind
Luckily I was an undergrad during the endless loop 8 track era! Crank in Fleetwood Mac Rumors or Dave Mason Split Coconut and you were good to go for the night!I remember one girlfriend in college complaining that if we wanted to listen to LP's while, umm, snuggling, I'd have to get up every 20 minutes to flip the record over or put on a new one.
Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent --Wittgenstein
That's what RTR @ 1 7/8th ips is (was) for ;-)
or a loop bin......................
Not all vegetables make good leaders.
I had a Tandberg with the big 10 1/2' reels for that, you could put a foil leader on the tape, it would reverse and play the other side of the tape.
Your neighbors called. They like your music.
That is pretty cool. But I bet the stylus pressures would be tremendous and consequently wear out the LPs in no time.
To me it looks like the mechanism is based on a mechanical juke mechanism.
The series 51 and 51M(according to the site) were direct replacements for the Capehart 100-18 mechanism. That Capehart is often attributed to being the first production jukebox. A lot of the original Capehart parts from 1934 were cast of white metal(pot metal) and disintegrated over time. The whole thing was a bit of a Rube Goldberg contraption. If memory serves, it held 10 or a dozen 78's in a "carousel" that used roller chain and sprockets to rotate, and changing records could cost you a finger or two if not done with care. But, they're rare and historically significant so it's not surprising that even in the 50's retrofits were made for it.
Not all vegetables make good leaders.
Years ago, my aunt and uncle had a stereo console with the mechanism from a Seeburg jukebox, it was really neat, it had magazine that you store LPs. You "dial" in the number of the slot of the LP on a rotary telephone dial, and the system would find that LP and play it; you could program a number of LPs, but it has been a number of years(probably like 30 years or so), since I've seen the console, so I don't remember exactly what it can and can't do.
I was really impressed by such a gizmo.
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