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I have been creating a lot of images based on the "copy wheel eye" or Sharingan eye which is part of a Japanese comic series.
The Obito eye (left) bears a strange resemblance to a connector device that anybody who remembers 45 records will recognize.
I made this into a stereogram.
How many people recognize the yellow thingy. And how many people remember 78s? 45s? 33 LPs?
remember them well!! Great stereogram
I grew up as a small kid with ex juke-box 45's that we needed one of those for, to play on our portable dansette; we used to race who could swap the adaptor from one disc to the next the fastest :D
78's - my gran had some of Gracie Fields....
like the stereogram
I do remember your stereograms...
I was never able to see any of them because my brain is wired differently.
I also still love you.
:)
Very familiar, and I like that stereogram.
I remember all of those but as usual I cannot see ehe stereogram.
If you had a turntable, you wouldn't be without one.
It was as important as the stylus!
I can only remember using these things for ex-juke-box 45's. The standard 45 you purchased in the UK didn't require one, it already had a smaller hole. Great Streogram Gary.
That's interesting, great idea, we always had to use one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
Yes, it appeared a better idea. If the 45 required the larger hole for a juke-box you could snap the middle bit out.
Alternatively you could buy a gizmo thar fitted over the centre spindle to fit the larger hole. But in the main all 45's in the UK were like the attached image so the gizmo wasn't required.
yes that's right, we used to call them, and our music shop sold them as, '45 adaptors' - only needed to buy them for the ex-duke box 45's, that were sold off cheap [and if we were lucky as kids given away]
And when one or more of the thin connectors broke off when trying to lift them up our stacked/multi-record player's long spindle, which happened in my case too often.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
The regular (solid) adaptor couldn't be used, so we had to use the spider-type adaptors, but often they came off as well. We had mostly access to rather flimsy ones, such as the one shown in the picture. Or forget using the stacked-record option and play one record at a time using the small spindle and having to get up each time to change records. Life of a teenager was hard back then.... ;)
oh so hard...
would you believe our stacker never worked properly, it ended up scratching the 45's even more, bering in mind they were used in the first place, usually well used: snap crackle and pop...
would our parent's buy us a new dansette.. no they would not.. and kids had no real mony in those days and... [herself says I should stop here before I go the full monty... python that is :D]
I remember putting thin felt stickers on them so they would scratch or slip.
I remember those adapters. I had a solid plastic one that you could fix on the turntable.
Cardboard box?
Aye.
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. :D
Luxury!Quote:
Cardboard box?
Aye.
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. :D
Try telling that to the kids these days ...
oh no !! - I let the python out of the box :-O :D
LOL :DQuote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
How many people recognize the yellow thingy. And how many people remember 78s? 45s? 33 LPs?[/QUOTE]
Hi Gary, I do recognize the yellow thingy and actually still use them. I have been collecting and still use vinyl records for the last 50 years or so. I transfer songs from vinyl to my computer using .wav format to retain the original sound which I love and make different playlists. I use these playlists at dances for seniors who love the old stuff from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. This is a great way for me to stay busy and active.
Roly
Excellent.Quote:
This is a great way for me to stay busy and active.
There are some interesting facts in this video. Firstly there were no juke-boxes at the implimentation of the 45. Secondly the use of a large centre hole made it far easier to hold up to ten stacked 45's rather than the small holed versions.
It's a rather long video, but for the demographics of TG members might be of interest.
To view just a specific part of the video FF to the 34 minute section of this video