Teardown: The Crosley RSD3 Mini Turntable Featuring 60s Flexi-Discs

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  • @terryhall3960
    @terryhall3960 2 місяці тому +16

    Love how it's got the fake strobe markings on the outer ring - which doesn't actually rotate!

  • @Capturing-Memories
    @Capturing-Memories 3 місяці тому +31

    That motor is indeed a two speed motor, I think the way it is wired disables the two speed feature and their adjustments, The H is high speed adjustment, the L is the low speed adjustment, You can find some help online to rewire it correctly and restore the 45 rpm speed and the adjustment for both 33 and 45.

  • @jhudso214
    @jhudso214 29 днів тому +1

    I never knew that these tiny record players existed

  • @Fardemark
    @Fardemark 3 місяці тому +5

    I love that the new Beatles 3” records have a standard size hole and they can play on a real hip pocket player. I use my hip pocket player to play my 3” records mostly and I can play the previous releases on it using a plastic washer to adapt the hole to the smaller standard size. I’ve demoed some of these on my channel and also tried my hand at embossing 3” cds to make custom 3” records it’s quite fun

  • @HelloKittyFanMan....
    @HelloKittyFanMan.... 2 місяці тому +5

    I remember getting some square flexible records in little mailings or magazines or something like that when we were really young.

    • @billkeithchannel
      @billkeithchannel 2 місяці тому +1

      May late dad has a stack of these from Science Digest and Ellery Queen that he got from the LOC blind/visually impaired ordering catalog.

    • @Dee.J.Mogfry
      @Dee.J.Mogfry Місяць тому

      They are called pocket discs or hip discs.

    • @HelloKittyFanMan....
      @HelloKittyFanMan.... 22 дні тому

      @@Dee.J.Mogfry: Not the ones we got. They were too big for pockets. like 45-sized but with the small hole, so 33.

  • @Ni5ei
    @Ni5ei Місяць тому +1

    7:07
    Stereo? Doesn't sound like it. Couldn't you have recorded it directly instead of your camera microphone recording a speaker?

  • @markseymour5558
    @markseymour5558 3 місяці тому +4

    So glad to see you back!

  • @Musicradio77Network
    @Musicradio77Network 3 місяці тому +12

    These 3” flexidiscs can also be played on Bandai’s 8Ban record player from Japan, and it can also play Talking View-Master flexidiscs.

  • @kaitlyn__L
    @kaitlyn__L 3 місяці тому +8

    So weird to see Crosley imitating an 80s Technics (or, indeed, a 2020s Technics) turntable rather than a midcentury RCA one. Especially since those mini discs clearly evoke early 45s, even moreso with that deep blue colour!
    This does seem kind of neat though. Is it me, or did they try harder with this novelty than they did with some of their full-production pieces...? I know they make _some_ better, "real", stuff, but...

  • @dariuszjablonski1969
    @dariuszjablonski1969 28 днів тому

    I'm not to much into technical things but I guess it could be easily moded to operate both 33 and 45 speeds

  • @H2Oredfirefox
    @H2Oredfirefox 2 місяці тому +10

    For a brief second I thought it was a CD player that looks like a record player😆😆😆😆😆😆

    • @KlingonCaptain
      @KlingonCaptain 25 днів тому

      You are not alone.

    • @danieldaniels7571
      @danieldaniels7571 24 дні тому

      I actually saw that at Five Below yesterday for $20 and almost bought it

  • @RebrandSoon0000
    @RebrandSoon0000 Місяць тому +1

    Maybe you can modify the turntable with a switch and some resistors or whatever could be used for 45 rpm. I never done anything of the sort but it would sound possible to do something.

    • @sefusolace410
      @sefusolace410 Місяць тому

      👉🏾Do something? I’m not missing the point here. But, you can just buy an actual real life sized turntable… that’s what I would do! 🤷🏾‍♂️ 😂

  • @billkeithchannel
    @billkeithchannel 2 місяці тому +3

    Nice to see that America has someone that moans over tech.

  • @perrybarton
    @perrybarton 3 місяці тому +2

    13:00 That's gotta be Jim Henson. What record is this?

  • @HelloKittyFanMan....
    @HelloKittyFanMan.... 2 місяці тому +3

    Ha, that little "TV" is really cute!

  • @automatedelectronics6062
    @automatedelectronics6062 3 місяці тому +4

    There was a short-lived record company named Americom which also made 3" flexi-discs, with standard spindle holes and they were 33 1/3 rpm, so you can play them on the Crosley RSD3. The Americom discs featured The Beatles and other Apple artists. They were sold from a vending machine.
    I don't remember which, but there was a cereal company which included 3" 45rpm story flexi-discs as a bonus. I used to have a handful of them.
    I do still have a large collection of the Hip-Pocket records.
    If you want to speed the RSD3 up to 45 rpm, put a snug-fitting bushing over the motor spindle. Year ago, I found that I could slide a rubber vacuum hose over the spindle of my belt-driven Dual turntable to speed it up to play 78's.
    With the Crosley, it's even easier. Build the size of the spindle up using heat-shrink tubing adding more until the platter spins at 45 rpm.

    • @carlosdj4884
      @carlosdj4884 2 місяці тому

      You can see that they are just using a jumper wire on the Molex Connector to achieve 33 rpm, try removing one side and it might be 45 RPM.

  • @RaymondMDay
    @RaymondMDay 3 місяці тому +8

    This is put together pretty much like Crosley's regular sized players....simple and cheap...even looks like the same board, wiring, cartridge as my Grace Picowriter....a Crosley based RCA/USB output unit....just smaller.

  • @ВячеславСпирин-ю7ц
    @ВячеславСпирин-ю7ц 3 місяці тому +25

    Купил, один раз послушал и больше никогда не включишь!!!!!!!!!

    • @cultprosvet1
      @cultprosvet1 2 місяці тому

      Можно поподробнее пожалуйста

    • @dj_bob
      @dj_bob Місяць тому

      это детская игрушка!

    • @cultprosvet1
      @cultprosvet1 Місяць тому

      @@dj_bob то есть «детские игрушки» спроектированы таким образом, чтобы включаться только один раз?

  • @nicolabelle1415
    @nicolabelle1415 Місяць тому

    This mini turntable is So cute but can guess the Discs will be hard to find or will be affordable at high prices …

  • @fhwolthuis
    @fhwolthuis 3 місяці тому +18

    A drop of oil may help the motor

    • @carlosdj4884
      @carlosdj4884 2 місяці тому +1

      Sounds like too much tension for the plastic platter & spindles cheap design.
      But it's still a cool little TT conversation piece.

  • @fiercefeline5096
    @fiercefeline5096 2 місяці тому +1

    Those Hip Pocket records were sold in vending machines and were designed for the small portable transistor record players like the Singer and Columbia. There were a lot of odd formats at that time before people settled on 8Tracks and cassettes for portable and/or car use. If you actually carried a stack of these in your hip pocket they probably didn't last long.

  • @JerryHickey-1958
    @JerryHickey-1958 Місяць тому

    Here is What I say I think you got a first Generation of this type of player , I get the feeling that in time maybe a short amount of time they will make players like this for 45s and those Small records , they might can get them full album lengths . What I am Seeing since people are wanting to get Vinyl records again , they are mostly wanting to shrink down record sizes for easier storage and shipping cost for records .

  • @LiovaSly
    @LiovaSly 2 місяці тому +2

    If it will be the recorder. That device will be interesting.

  • @doogie812
    @doogie812 3 місяці тому +2

    Seems they shot themselves in the foot by not making it capable of playing a standard 45 RPM record. The thing is very cute. It is a pain in the butt to switch cartridges on my main turntable to play 45's. A little TT like that one only a selector switch away would make bringing out the 45s' a little more fun.

  • @elijahvincent985
    @elijahvincent985 3 місяці тому +7

    It's good for a claymation prop at least.

  • @Onteo1
    @Onteo1 3 місяці тому +6

    The Beatles website has a version with 4 Beatle records for $199.00

  • @12_inch_spinnerz
    @12_inch_spinnerz 3 місяці тому +8

    But why?

  • @teddine7366
    @teddine7366 Місяць тому

    That's a cool little novelty. I wouldn't mind putting it up on my shelf to look at. Wasn't this player and the little records just a record store day gimmick? I think it was but not sure. I sure wouldn't buy this thing to for use but just as a cool conversation piece.

  • @rustymixer2886
    @rustymixer2886 27 днів тому +1

    How do i create flexi discs

  • @HelloKittyFanMan....
    @HelloKittyFanMan.... 2 місяці тому +1

    Cool video, thanks! I haven't seen one of yours for a long time--a few years, it feels like.

  • @sazieboy64
    @sazieboy64 2 місяці тому +1

    Interesting video. At the start I thought it was a turntable that reads CDs. That would be novel.

  • @imrejoni8891
    @imrejoni8891 Місяць тому

    Ami meglep hogy hagyományos bakelitnek néz ki a videón az első lemez a második az már a mini változata annak ami már volt a 80-as években is. Lehet az első se bakelit már valójában. Érdekelne hány mega vagy giga adatra képes ez a lemez?

  • @max_e_maxxy_
    @max_e_maxxy_ 2 місяці тому +8

    Crazy to think that this novelty turntable has a real moving magnet cartridge while most of the Crosleys, cruisers and such, have a terrible ceramic cartridge 😅

  • @Ashuy-e9c
    @Ashuy-e9c 3 місяці тому +4

    1980s i remember there is a christmas card have mini vinyl records

  • @brianrigsby7900
    @brianrigsby7900 2 місяці тому +1

    0:39 wait…so you just destroy the machines after you’re finished with the video…? Or do you reassemble them off camera…?

  • @coondogtheman
    @coondogtheman 3 місяці тому +2

    Can you play the record on that tiny gramophone on the crosley?

  • @debojitacharjee
    @debojitacharjee Місяць тому

    How are you able to play a CD on this record player?Is it having a laser diode?

    • @databits
      @databits  Місяць тому +1

      Hi there! The CD was embossed with grooves on a record cutting machine.

  • @HelloKittyFanMan....
    @HelloKittyFanMan.... 2 місяці тому +1

    "...Vinyl on top of plastic."
    Since vinyl IS plastic, then I wonder what _other_ kind of plastic they'd layer it with.

  • @Gnc_Arteband
    @Gnc_Arteband Місяць тому +1

    Tem tanto tempo que eu não ouço um vinil que eu não as vezes sinta saudades da época que ouvia , Led Zeppelin, te who . Eric Clapton. Jeff Beck. Beatles, Milton Nascimento. 14 bis. Lo Borges. Ten years after. E outros. Mas o cd também faz falta, como o vídeo cassete. Mas tudo é pro avançado pela ciência. Valeu! Hoje temos até carros voadores...

  • @radionicpowers5938
    @radionicpowers5938 3 місяці тому

    Cool video surely one could change the speed electronically to 45rpm ?

  • @TimothyTimPSP
    @TimothyTimPSP Місяць тому

    What experiments are you using the batteries for?

  • @HelloKittyFanMan....
    @HelloKittyFanMan.... 2 місяці тому

    Oh wow, I couldn't tell that that little hub was 3.5mm like a mini-ear/line plug!

  • @imrejoni8891
    @imrejoni8891 Місяць тому

    ez nem mondható újdonságnak max a méretét tekintve! Nekünk már a 80-as években volt ilyen ami akkora volt mint a hagyományos Bakelit lemezeké arról ment a video diszkó. Gyerekként nem is értettük hogy játszik le egy tű egy fémnek ma már tudjuk cd vagy dvd anyagú lemezt

  • @marydehaven2539
    @marydehaven2539 2 місяці тому

    do you know or anybody else know were that record min withnol abel came from

  • @vivileon
    @vivileon 25 днів тому

    When I want to connect it to my speakers do I also need to connect it to a pre-amp first?

  • @billkeithchannel
    @billkeithchannel 2 місяці тому +1

    We used coins back as a child to keep the flexi discs from slipping.

  • @peterripson
    @peterripson 3 місяці тому

    I think they use the current hole size because it looks like their "records" are actually CDs, but, using CDs made with either a different plastic altogether or just a different colored CD plastic

  • @stefanegger
    @stefanegger 2 місяці тому

    where can I buy a record cutter and a "LP-R"? LIke the Plastik Disk without a song? So I could make my own records?

  • @HelloKittyFanMan....
    @HelloKittyFanMan.... 2 місяці тому

    So if you bought your Cros disc player _off_ of ebay, then which website did you buy it ON?

  • @franciscoxavier9617
    @franciscoxavier9617 3 місяці тому +1

    Será se vai chegar no Brazil

  • @rustymixer2886
    @rustymixer2886 27 днів тому +1

    9:48 austin powers

  • @mateuszamadeusz6894
    @mateuszamadeusz6894 Місяць тому

    Who would listen to something like that?... 😄

  • @dean6816
    @dean6816 3 місяці тому +1

    They've done a Beatles version with 4 Beatles records.

  • @SPINNINGMYWHEELS777
    @SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 3 місяці тому

    loved it - you can get that puppy choochin in 45 with the motor installed and minor mod maybe a pot is available

  • @tinicum54
    @tinicum54 Місяць тому

    I take it to keg parties!!

  • @marc6340
    @marc6340 2 місяці тому +1

    Crosley is literally just junk. It's one step up (or down?) from Fingerhut. I DO remember getting records like that when I was a kid, though. Plus, whatever happened to the records they used to print on cereal boxes? I loved those!

  • @MinorLG
    @MinorLG 3 місяці тому +13

    I'm watching this video at two times speed and it sounds perfectly fine.

  • @LicocoS
    @LicocoS 3 місяці тому +1

    En la miniatura parece un compact disc en un lector con el laser en el brazo. nunca vendieron uno asi. lastima.

  • @xaenon
    @xaenon 3 місяці тому +3

    It's not that the motor is 'SUPPOSED' to be that loud; It's that it's a cheap, gimmicky toy and they don't CARE that it's that loud. It isn't intended to be a 'high fidelity' device.
    In 'real' record players, the motor is isolated from its mounting points with rubber grommets. That is very obviously not the case here since the are no mounts at all.
    Yes, the motor is configured for three-speed operation. It's the very same motor used in their other record players like the cruiser. They left it that way because it was probably cheaper than buying a single speed motor., but there is no provision to actually change speeds. No idea why your efforts at adjustting it didn't get results. Sometimes it's difficult to hit the adjusting screws.

  • @DavidMander-rs4uk
    @DavidMander-rs4uk 3 місяці тому +5

    The wow and flutter is strong with this one! 😆

  • @MichaelStoneham
    @MichaelStoneham Місяць тому

    ther motor sounds fairly quiet in the recording.

  • @tomsaltner3011
    @tomsaltner3011 2 місяці тому

    I guess, a larger center of the center is better for smaller records in terms of mechanical stability and perfect centering…

  • @HelloKittyFanMan....
    @HelloKittyFanMan.... 2 місяці тому

    Ha, wow, that first disc looks almost like a small CD!

  • @stefanegger
    @stefanegger 2 місяці тому

    You can record the sound in 33 RPM into a computer and maybe figure out what is the multiplier from 33 to 45 (sorry, I am not good in math) and then you can stretch the sound file and play it as 45 RPM on the PC

  • @joepacheco7979
    @joepacheco7979 2 місяці тому

    "One small step for man,… one giant leap…"

  • @w140
    @w140 2 місяці тому

    as these cheap turntables have a spring for needle weight tis often not linear with the hight of the needle. it will show higher measurements if the weight is measure not on alne with actual vinyl. The higher you pull the tonarm the more spring act to add weight to the needle. You should measure it right at the hight of the record to get the real weight numbers

  • @ChrisKewl
    @ChrisKewl 3 місяці тому

    You could just mod it to run the motor faster, maybe a switch mod to go between 45 and 33.

  • @АндрейПотапов-о4ц
    @АндрейПотапов-о4ц 3 місяці тому +3

    Это же альтернати́вный прои́грыватель,тому́,на котóром в Совéтское врéмя и Грóзные гóды прои́грывали грампласти́нки,а тепéрь на Нëм вопроизвóдятся компáкт-ди́ски.Рáньше агрегáт назывáлся электрофóном,а тепéрь его мóжно назвáть лазерофóном или квантофóном(Вáш доброжелáтель Андрéй Потáпов).

  • @HelloKittyFanMan....
    @HelloKittyFanMan.... 2 місяці тому

    "...Or phonograph..."
    Both of those players are phonographs. All groove-driven audio players are phonographs (even the Tefifon, a phonographic ribbon player is, in a certain sense).

  • @perfectstrangers7673
    @perfectstrangers7673 Місяць тому

    😊 Industrial waste, child's play at most!

  • @enriquegonzalez2802
    @enriquegonzalez2802 2 місяці тому

    So cute turntable! :D

  • @highpath4776
    @highpath4776 2 місяці тому

    I suppose you can record to audacity and then speed up the file

  • @ikonix360
    @ikonix360 2 місяці тому

    Would be more authentic if the outer ring rotated.

  • @carojujulapassionhaster
    @carojujulapassionhaster 3 місяці тому +2

    woooo j en veux une c'est trop bien merci pour ta vidéo

  • @HelloKittyFanMan....
    @HelloKittyFanMan.... 2 місяці тому

    The motor has several RPMs? Huh, interesting, I've been used to non-BL DC motors that could just do variable RPM based on simply varying the voltage, and that was nothing special, so this confuses me a little.

  • @DavidMadeira29
    @DavidMadeira29 2 місяці тому

    You make me understand why Jimi Hendrix took the underground way. Namastè.

  • @garylynncook1560
    @garylynncook1560 3 місяці тому

    How much?

  • @grantc61
    @grantc61 3 місяці тому +59

    What junk. I had a portable record player as a kid that worked beautifully and actually had a decent speaker. Portable record and cassette players today are garbage.

    • @awesomeferret
      @awesomeferret 2 місяці тому +4

      I had a 60s portable record player that was made out of cardboard (no, really) and therefore I never used it once because I was afraid to ever plug it in, and it couldn't be disassembled due to the cardboard (good thing I got it for free). As with most in life, reality is nuanced.

  • @AMOKIAN
    @AMOKIAN 3 місяці тому +2

    Awesome

  • @squireaudioselectionssasdi5371
    @squireaudioselectionssasdi5371 2 місяці тому

    Gekken?

  • @mist1206
    @mist1206 3 місяці тому

    The "Weird Al" Yankovic 3" Beat On The Brat has this "standard" spindle size.

  • @ferroud
    @ferroud 2 місяці тому

    CD компакт-диски проигрывает? )

  • @nwmusic2010
    @nwmusic2010 3 місяці тому +2

    My guess is there is a belt that is slipping

    • @nwmusic2010
      @nwmusic2010 3 місяці тому +1

      Nevermind it’s actually a direct drive turntable! Wow.

    • @Volodymyr_Revunets
      @Volodymyr_Revunets 3 місяці тому

      ​@@nwmusic2010
      17:40 we have the belt.

    • @nwmusic2010
      @nwmusic2010 3 місяці тому

      @@Volodymyr_Revunetsah! I missed that the first time around

  • @andrea-sp2xm
    @andrea-sp2xm 2 місяці тому

    potrebbero anche risparmiare tempo e denaro che costruire questi simil giradischi giocattolo denaro buttato come i giradischi di ultima generazione gia' amplificati simil valigetta che andava negli anni 50- 60 che quelli se non altro erano realmente funzionanti e con valvole

  • @HelloKittyFanMan....
    @HelloKittyFanMan.... 2 місяці тому

    Now let's hear the 45 Hip Pocket just on the high end of the silver player _without_ the editing.

  • @beep1484
    @beep1484 2 місяці тому

    I remember record gum

  • @RichGustafson-zw2ip
    @RichGustafson-zw2ip 3 місяці тому +1

    Play them on your home Stereo Turntable they sound better I did that with 1969 Doors Pocet disc and 2023 Doors RSD 3 inch as long as your turntable does not have auto pickup .

  • @CH32mix
    @CH32mix 3 місяці тому

    A brand new nugg

  • @rw4pjqradiomaster529
    @rw4pjqradiomaster529 2 місяці тому +1

    Какой интересный интересный микро проигрыватель😂

  • @MikeGervasi
    @MikeGervasi 2 місяці тому

    Crosley finally admitting the truth and making toys. 4+ grams of weight. Nice.

  • @MarkusFlorence
    @MarkusFlorence 2 місяці тому +1

    5:37 vinyl IS just plastic! 😅😅🤣🤣

  • @tiempoveganoprovida2247
    @tiempoveganoprovida2247 3 місяці тому +2

    No entiendo quien va a comprar eso...

  • @ValmirGomes-yl9yn
    @ValmirGomes-yl9yn 2 місяці тому +1

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊

  • @litoboy5
    @litoboy5 2 місяці тому

    Great

  • @piotrbiedowicz1602
    @piotrbiedowicz1602 2 місяці тому

    Who need's that?

  • @raimundposset1932
    @raimundposset1932 14 днів тому

    Wow des hob ich noch nie gesehen ,.

  • @chrismaton01
    @chrismaton01 Місяць тому

    My daughter had a Fisher Price record player, then graduated to Sony at about age8 . I wouldn't buy her this!

  • @DrBovdin
    @DrBovdin 2 місяці тому +1

    And here I thought it was an unusual CD player design with the actual laser pickup in the arm.
    Sadly, this device seems to be nigh on utterly useless. Who would ever want to publish anything but novelty titles for the format?

  • @FlamingRobzilla
    @FlamingRobzilla 2 місяці тому

    The micro USB standard wasn't introduced until 2007, so what makes this particular turntable 60's technology?

  • @WillKlaver
    @WillKlaver 3 місяці тому +1

    .. i have never seen one of these .. 🎼🎸⏺️