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I found a couple of records the other day and I wanted to listen to them but I didnt have a record player so i decided to make my own! you only need a few fairly common items for this project.
parts needed:
- CD drive motor
- Spacer to place the record on
- Power supply (3-12v)
- sewing needle
- 1k pot
- stiff wire or flexible metal for the needle
- receipt for the "speaker"
- A pumpkin
- And of course a record to play
parts needed:
- CD drive motor
- Spacer to place the record on
- Power supply (3-12v)
- sewing needle
- 1k pot
- stiff wire or flexible metal for the needle
- receipt for the "speaker"
- A pumpkin
- And of course a record to play
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this is pretty straight forward, you put the motor on a table and place the spacer on top. this motor i salvaged from an old DVD player that quit working, its not very powerful as far as torque goes so its not the best choice for this application but it will work. it can run on a little as 1.5 volts without a "load" on it but we will need alot more power to make this record spin. then i placed a plastic conduit washer on the top of the motor as my spacer. you can use anything for this, but this is what i had available.
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You can improve a lot the pick-up, using a disposable coffe cup. The needle can be sticked to or threaded thru the bottom. The cup can be foam (thermal) or PVC or even wax paper. You will not believe how good it sounds!
I remember at the antique shop m wife used to work at they had a standing cabinet style Victrola hand crank record player. It used the old old OLD clay 77 rpm records purely analogue. volume control was achieved via opening or closing a couple of cabinet doors over the sounding board.
You had two types of needles for these records and record player. steel needles for the big bright sound, but would destroy the records pretty quick, and cut bamboo wooden needles for general playback.
That old unit would be part of my permanent collection of pointless crap if the antique store hadn't sold it the day before payday >:(
/ shakes tiny internet fist of rage!
and a record player costs like 10-20 euros its no money
I scratched Kings of the Wild Frontier doing something like this... Having the pumpkin or something similar would have helped the thing to work better.
It's nice.
L