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Age Test: If your record needle skips you put a what on it?
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Jul 26, 2023, 9:34 PM
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Pretty much only a certain crowd will know this!
Well, never mind, dang Google can tell you, LOL.
Did anyone else have to take this particular action back in the day?
We used this one particular Nickel.
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Jul 26, 2023, 9:37 PM
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Re: Age Test: If your record needle skips you put a what on it?
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Jul 26, 2023, 9:37 PM
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Oh, you taped a coin on top of the needle arm?
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Exactly. Usually, a dime would.......
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Jul 26, 2023, 9:40 PM
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be enough weight.
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but you zero your digitals with a nickel before you scale that black tar for your customers***
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Jul 27, 2023, 11:39 AM
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Re: Age Test: If your record needle skips you put a what on it?
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Jul 26, 2023, 9:40 PM
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a penny. That's all we could afford to spare.
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Re: Age Test: If your record needle skips you put a what on it?
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Jul 26, 2023, 10:04 PM
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I always just adjust the tracking force, or replace the stylus. Sometimes you could clean it and make it run a little longer.
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Re: Age Test: If your record needle skips you put a what on it?
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Jul 26, 2023, 10:07 PM
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I always just adjust the tracking force, or replace the stylus. Sometimes you could clean it and make it run a little longer.
+1 for using the proper term for "the record needle"! I heard it called that just recently and was like; "what's that"? LOL!
You are the 2nd person in about a two week period to use the proper name of the device. Kudos!
Needle is what my parents called it; so I just kind of followed.
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Ball peen hammer?***
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Jul 26, 2023, 10:09 PM
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Re: Ball peen hammer?***
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Jul 26, 2023, 10:10 PM
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🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 bahahaha! Not far from the truth, I'm afraid. LOL!
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Man, was I off on this one. We used to run a wax candle
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Jul 26, 2023, 10:54 PM
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across the scratch to try and "fill" it so that it wouldn't skip. It actually worked 2 out of three times, unless it was a REALLY bad scratch. Then, you just felt like taking a beisaball bat to whoever scratched it.
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Re: Age Test: If your record needle skips you put a what on it?
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Jul 26, 2023, 11:00 PM
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In the early 70’s I had a cheapo turntable and didn’t know “the trick”. One of my favorite albums was Hendrix’ Are You Experienced. It got scratched and would skip. I don’t remember which song it was but i listened to it so many times that the skip became “normal” to me and years later when I would hear it on the radio or whatever it kind of wrenched my brain a bit. There ya go.
Go Tigers..and Happy 80th, Mick Jagger!
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Re: Age Test: If your record needle skips you put a what on it?
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Jul 26, 2023, 11:18 PM
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You should never put a coin or extra weight in a needle. It will over time ruin your needle and records. Properly adjusting the tracking and counter weigh by is what you need.
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Re: Age Test: If your record needle skips you put a what on it?
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Jul 27, 2023, 5:08 AM
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This was a trick for record players without the counterweight. Adding a small weight was the only way to adjust the tracking force.
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Re: Age Test: If your record needle skips you put a what on it?
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Jul 27, 2023, 7:47 AM
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Werther's Original?
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A couple of pennies or washers***
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Jul 27, 2023, 7:57 AM
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When I cleaned the dust off the needle
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Jul 27, 2023, 8:17 AM
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it would play Tiger Rag from the grooves in my fingerprints.
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A little pressure.
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Jul 27, 2023, 9:36 AM
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Sometimes the pressure will re-cut the disk. You might lose a note or two but the repeating will end.
What we're calling a skip is when the needle jumps back a groove or two and repeats again and again. The goal is to make it play through rather than skipping backward.
You can put a weight on the arm but that will wear on all your disk. Not the solution.
BTW, if you keep your idiot brothers and sisters away from your turntable you won't suffer this fate. Needles can be damaged by any experiments involving fixing groove skipping.
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Re: Age Test: If your record needle skips you put a what on it?
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Jul 27, 2023, 9:44 AM
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On our old cheap kids record player, we left a nickel taped on top of the arm. If the record was badly scratched, we would hold a comb against the arm to encourage the needle to take the right track. And when we were really bored, we’d play a song on the wrong speed.
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WE had two solutions.
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Jul 27, 2023, 10:46 AM
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1. Put a wieght on it. Howevr many coins it took to stop the skipping.
2. Adjust the tension on it, which was essentially the same thing.
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Coin!!***
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Jul 27, 2023, 10:49 AM
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Re: Age Test: If your record needle skips you put a what on it?
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Jul 27, 2023, 11:20 AM
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Hmm, we always used a penny. A nickel would buy a fountain coke with a shot of cherry!
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Re: Age Test: If your record needle skips you put a what on it?
Jul 27, 2023, 12:41 PM
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LOL!
Thanks everyone!
I appreciate the brief walk down memory lane! Some really good suggestions; I wish I knew then.
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