[Jukebox-list] Fascinating home record changers

[Doug Duncan]

David Breneman wrote:
> If you think some jukebox mechanisms are Rube Goldberg
> devices, check out these videos of home flip-over
> record changers from the 1920s-1950s.  Absolutely
> amazing -- that they even worked!
>
> http://www.myvintagetv.com/changer_videos.htm
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> David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com
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Thanks for pointing these out. It is amazing how they work and the level 
of detail that goes into the design.

I first met one of the Thorens units in a hifi shop I worked in in the 
early seventies and ever after I've been looking for one. Mind you after 
I discovered 78 jukeboxes I needed one less but I would still go quite a 
long way to find one.

Also the owner of the Capehart is very enthusiastic about his machine 
and says that they never break records unless you use 12 inch ones.It 
seems to handle the discs quite gently. However I recall seeing the 
mechanism of a Capehart Jukebox cycle on TV some years ago and it really 
flings the discs around. The disc is pushed onto the turntable from the 
bottom of the stack and after playing is flipped back onto the stack and 
freefalls into place. In the process the disc is turned over The records 
stack in contact with each other. You pay to get the next tune but you 
get whatever is next in the sequence. The man demonstrating it said that 
on the day of filming it had broken a few so best not to use your 
favourites.

Doug