it says “record adapter” right on the thing
I’m still confused. What does it adapt? Does the hole size of LPs differ?
7“ singles usually have a bigger hole where the adapter is needed
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That’s not really all that special or unique. There are lots of things that many people would instantly recognize that others would have never seen before.
45/33 1/3 RPM records might be well within your wheelhouse, but would you recognize a 78 RPM record, or an Edison wax cylinder at first glance? How about the image below?
Beyblade!
Let it rip!
Fr thought the other thing was a beyblade part until you reminded me what beyblades looked like.
How about the image below?
Sir, please, I had a childhood!
obs studio logo
Is it the Ubuntu logo?
your fidget spinner looks like it wouldn’t spin very well
It’s whole point in life is to spin
that’s sad :(
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I had no clue until I remembered this
It literally says what it is right on it lol
It’s a record adapter.
Still doesn’t explain if you don’t have at least some knowledge of it
I’m just wondering how it works. I know there are different sizes, and thus different speeds that the record needs to spin at but all the turntables I’ve ever used had a switch for the two most common sizes. I have to assume this is for slowing/speeding up how fast it turns on a table without an adjustable speed, but I can’t quite intuit how that would work.
The adapter does not affect the speed of the turntable, and you would still need to flip the switch on the record player to 45 RPM. These physically smaller (7") records were commonly referred to as singles because they would hold a single song per side.
The larger (12") 33 1/3 RPM records had a smaller spindle than 45s, which meant you would need to use an adapter like the one pictured to play a 45, as demonstrated in the video shared by @thermal_shock.
Since 33s were physically larger and played at a slower speed, you could fit much more music on each side of the disc. That’s why those discs would be used for entire albums, and were also commonly referred to as LPs (Long Plays).
Huh. I guess I just never saw the different sizes having a different sized spindle hole. My dad has a collection of records, and there are two different sizes of records among them, but they all have the same sized hole in the center. However, none of them appear to be 45s. They’re all 10 inch or 12 inch LPs. I was aware of the smaller 45s, I just didn’t know their hole was way larger.
That’s awesome, you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000.
It supposedly had something to do with calculus and the ratio between the diameter of the inner most groove to the diameter of the outermost groove being optimal at that size, but I’m not sure how much of that is genuine or just marketing. I’ve also heard that the larger hole is better for the mechanisms in jukeboxes.
I think it’s just an adapter because the holes are different size, so this goes in the larger hole to fit the spindle. I’ve never used a record either though so…
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It’s a practice ninja star for little Japanese kindergartners?
Wait, in English people call the kids in kindergarten kindergartners?
(cries in German)
What do you call them in Germany?
Kindengartenkind (Kindergarten child). We don’t use Kindergärtner, but I’d expect the educator to be the gardener in that context
So few people know this
I kinda broke a ninja code by sharing this knowledge, but I love you guys.
is this a precursor to the SCP Foundation’s logo?
I think so. But is was originally green and not red
Old people.
Younger vinyl fanatics would like a word.
Those are just young old people, give it time.
some DJs die young
Are there still really a lot of 45’s in circulation?
Oh yeah. Lots if vintage record shops have them.
I have not seen those in many decades…
Like everything in the universe. Some know some don’t. Good shit post.
