Space age audio - fifty years on
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- The Apollo 11 moon landing encounters the Philips UFO.
Depending upon what source you read, the date for the introduction of the Philips UFO turntable might vary. Multiple sources indicate that the design was done by Patrice Dupont in 1969 - these include sound-of-desig... - and the book “L'utopie du tout plastique : 1960-1973”. However other online sources state the GF303 was manufactured from 1972-1974. Irrespective of which one is correct, it’s irrefutably a classic space-age design.
COMMENTS: Unfortunately as soon as this video was posted the comments were immediately inundated with individuals promoting their own agendas and conspiracy theories. As a result of this, other viewers complained that the comments needed moderating because of all the spam. I therefore pinned a notice to advise that comments would be moderated - however that idea got the free speech advocates up in arms.
So here's what I'm doing - I'm just going to let the comments do their own thing - I won't be reading them and I won't be moderating them.
I will be offline today, working on another video.
It's up to each individual to decide whether to read the comments.
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If anyone wants to post their agenda on UA-cam they should make their own video about it rather than trying to piggyback on a video about a record player.
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Did you get any ContentID match? By default, unless otherwise noted, NASA stuff is public domain.
@@omsi-fanmark but the recording the newspaper produced may not be.
@@chartle1 But then again, the newspaper "The News of the World" no longer exists so it may not be a problem, although News Group Newspapers does!
Techmoan Loons on social media are as helpful and irritating as your average gnat.Wonderful and interesting little thing.History is vital,and the context of an items times are always vital to remember.Amazing times.
@Monty Python the Flying Circus I've got a Today ring binder.
What a brilliant way for you to celebrate the 50 year anniversary... including the amusing youtube jab at the end.
Even a simple product like this had the schematics inside to facilitate repair in those days.
Yes, back in a time when things were made to be easily dismantled (using normal screws) & repaired, unlike today where things are glued together & when it breaks you just throw the whole item away! Progress? Not always!
For example I've got a JBL Bluetooth speaker, which cost £130 & although it should last for Hundreds of charge cycles, there is no way I can see of opening it, if the battery pack needed replacement.
NOW, That's Richy. Would that be the same model recently dismantled in a Big Clive video?
@@NOWThatsRichy Did you look under the speaker grill?
@@NOWThatsRichy I totally agree, from my own perspective I wish things were higher quality and more serviceable. But it's tricky on the scale of a large society, since a lot of people will still throw it away anyway when the new one comes out, whether the old one is broken or not
It has a discrete amplifier inside so it's not that simple.
Hi. In answer to did they sell in the uk. yes they did. I had the red version. It. didn't have any sort of plug on it , as at the time there was no law to say there had to be .. It came from rumbelows in St Helens lancs. in 1973 for my 9th birthday. all the family chipped in towards it. it lasted until around 1980 . the plastic deteriorated really badly. bits had broken off. the hinge had snapped, the handle broken off at the end. and the cartridge stopped working.. the price of a new cartridge was the same as a second hand Kenwood stack.. so it was changed for an amp turntable and speakers (which I still use),😁. loved the video. took me right back. thank you for that.. cheers Mitch
My late Mother also bought a red one new here in the U.K. I have no idea where she (or my Father) bought it. Most likely the same place they rented their TV from. The same place that sold him a Grundig DC series cassette recorder. Hers actually had the Euro plug on it so was always used with a shaver type adapter.
Liar 🤬
"We do not restore these old machines because it's easy, but because it's hard."
I bet restoring that thing's a hell of a lot easier than restoring an iPad will be in 50 years.
A hundred year old Victrola, on the other hand... that's taking your life into your own hands if you aren't prepared with that spring case!
@@michaelmartin9022 repairing a iPad is is pretty easy if you know what you're doing :)
@@mr.whiskers6273 electronics is something I'm far better at repairing than anything mechanical.
A couple of weeks ago i saw a similar record at the fleamarket, didn´t pick it up, but immediately thought: "What a nice Techmoan item" :)
Happy 50th
Huh, I just remembered I have something similar in my collection. A 12-inch LP called "We Came in Peace for All Mankind", which probably very similar contents, though more of it.
@@soberhippie Actually, his name is Te Chmoan. He is Chinese, which explains the accent.
Also, he prefers you address him as "Sir".
@@SuperScottCrawford that is not true at all, it's his mum who is chinese, he's actually a russian fellow, if you paid attention to how he says 'sausage' you will see that his accent is russian
As a restorer of old record players and higher end auto turntables, the one thing I can tell you is that rubber roller cleaner doesn't solve the problem for those idler wheels and motor mounts. An idler does two things: it transfers the motor's energy, AND, it provides isolation from motor vibration. While the cleaner can address the surface rubber, it doesn't address all the hardened rubber beneath that surface. The result is that the higher frequency motor vibrations get transferred to the platter. There are services here in the U.S. that actually rebuild those idlers. Perhaps you have the same in Britain. The same for the motor mounts. Those get stiff, and the motor vibration transfers to the plastic plinth. Sometimes you can replace those with rubber washers from the hardware store, depending on the shape. Some types are also being reproduced. Having worked on various versions of these Philips players when they were current products, I can tell you that you are correct in assuming that these ran quieter when they were new. They ran quite smoothly, in fact. The non functional motor could have been, as you said, due to oxidation on the commutator. Or, it may have been due to oxidation on the centrifugal speed regulator contacts...also inside the motor.
Lol he never said the rubber cleaner was going to fix the issue of hard rubber. Did you watch the video?
for some pieces he has rplacesed those rubber rollers, pieces he has working on a regular bases, other players like that one is a onetime gig for a vid and will do nicely on the collection he has on a shelve
i bet to keep all of them in working order he randomly picks one of those shelve items and checks if its still working when he has spare time, given the care all the backround work he is doing for those vids that time is rather short o think and very limited so its more a future ongoin project and will keep him busy long after the youtube time :D
Was there not some kind of rubber restorer that claimed to restore supplyness. Anyway I need a reliable audio repair person for an awkward job, what city are you in?
@@colinjohnston8519 Wow, do you really feel the need to counter everything someone says just to prove how smart you are? So, no, I didn't even watch the video. I just magically guessed the whole thing. Are you happy now? How about this: my response wasn't really for him, it was for those people on here that might be interested in actually restoring an old record player. How many of them know about idler rebuilding services? I know for a fact that many people operate under the false assumption that they can somehow revive a crusty old idler by soaking it in brake fluid or rubbing some magic liquid on the outside of it. BTW, Techmoan has often said that he's not a technician, so it's not a given that he knows about everything that's available for repairing these players.
@@colinjohnston8519 John Stone gives more insight in why the vibration noise is so bad, very relevant…
A 1969 Roomba that can also play records - now that's impressive!
What, no, it's a record player that's round and looks almost nothing like a roomba.
What you wrote means it can work as a vacuum cleaner, which it obviously doesn't. It's not a thing that can also play records, it's only a record player.
How is that hard to get right? You're astoundingly idiotic.
someone has not heard of a joke
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@@MuscarV2 dude you just commented on a sarcastic comment from one year ago trying to patronize the guy? You must be fun at parties
@@MuscarV2 i tought he was joking i felt the sarcasm in the joke. lol
Techmoan: ”it doesnt work”
Me: “yessssss! He’s gotta open it up!”
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If you didnt say 1969, I would say this was 2000s iPod era! Looks great, way ahead of its time for design but not ott ahead.
I want one!
If you want one search with this number Philips 22GF303/03L
I was thinking the same, reminded me of the Indigo iMAc G3 that Apple released in 2000!
I'm waiting for Crosley to offer a cheap knock off of it.
The content match shouldn't matter.
The original recording was made by the US government, so it should be public domain.
But of course, this is UA-cam 🙄
The Apollo source recordings are public domain, but someone might own the copyright on the narration.
Ah, 1969, it was August the 15th of 1969 that I walked the love of my life down the isle of a little brown church on the hill, and we were wed for life. Still going strong, we are deciding how we shall celebrate our golden anniversary.
That's amazing! Congratulations and more power to ya! 🥳👍
oh that flight plan poster is really really neat!
It's not really a special image. It's quite standard. GIS it and print your own.
the release of laurie spiegil's (sp) visualisation of kepler's laws of motion is printed on a picture disk with the original drawings for voyager's 'grand tour'
Agreed. Toward that end:
airandspace.si.edu/webimages/highres/5317h.jpg
Retouched/reworked image accessible through:
www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3ftxjv/apollo_11_flight_plan_enlarged_and_digitally/
@@pendaco You might want to see a doctor about that.
None of your content should ever be demonetized
I bought a copy of this record back in the late 80s. They must have had a few copies left over! I believe I bought it from the Museum of Moving Image's gift shop. Lovely thing, there's a chance it's still in my loft somewhere
Maybe a re-issue?
@@wisteela almost certainly, it didn't look 20 years old when I bought it!
That design has aged very well, if that was on store shelves now I don't think it would look too out of place. Great little thing! Nice clean up job Sir!
My first thought was I was reminded of a Philips portable CD player I had sometime around the turn of the millennium, sometime between 2000 and 2004. They liked their translucent blues, and the design of the AZ9101 echoes the record player here, but it wasn't nearly as clean and simple as this.
@@brocka.6479
It does indeed look pretty early 2000s-ish.
Between the Logo being the exactly the same, the translucent plastic and nice finish of the upper deck, I was thinking we were being bamboozled and it was a reproduction, until I saw the battery compartment.
Except it's probably way more durable than the present-day Crosley Cruiser.
@@wolftickets1969 I'm actually half-expecting Crosley to make a knock-off of it.
Considering the age of the machine i was impressed with consistent playback
That ufo looks more like a waffle maker to me 😂, I love when you take something completely apart and then it's like yep I'm going to work now, after you've lost half the screws
Popcorn popper!
I absolutely love these restoration videos. They're pretty much my favourite.
I'm guessing the rubber mounts are as hard as rocks. Anything inserted in there would help isolate the vibrations.
Rubber isn't actually very good at isolating vibrations as it's elastic. Replace the rubber with similar thickness wool felt to have an effective damper.
Otherwise, you'd be pickin' up bad vibrations.
Keith Brown She’s givin’ me... whatever the bad version of excitations is.
@@keithbrown7685 ba-dum-BUM! 😁
NASA recordings and photos are supposed to be released to public domain for anyone to use, but I'm sure that Philips' narrator is their own content and subject to flagging.
I seriously doubt it'd be part of the UMG auto flagging / UA-cam algorithm. But yes - anything from NASA by default is PD. With one slight exception - you can't use faces of astronauts in conjunction with advertising - ie : 'Neil Armstrong loves Folgers coffee!' - you can demonstrate a spaceman in a suit as long as it's not a specific person. Source : me - I've worked in advertising (from large agencies to small both freelance and fulltime and have had decades of IP advertising law told to me by the legal departments).
davek12 I wonder if that narrator was from Phillips or from one of the many radio and TV stations covering the event. The JFK speech was as US government origin as it could possibly be: The president making an official speech in Congress.
You have a good point. He sounded American.
Doesn't stop UA-cam from letting NASA own channel from getting pulled. gizmodo.com/nasas-official-mars-landing-video-got-taken-off-youtube-5932089
On UA-cam, you most likely get flagged because some obscure dance mix or new age white noise recording uses the original NASA audio as sampled component.
My only small clam to fame is that I was standing on the beach with a few thousand other people and we watched the Apollo 11 lift off.
Ramseys Bull Did you check if you are in the Apollo 11 iMAX movie that shows the crowds near the start?
@@johnfrancisdoe1563 Yes I did. I bought the digi download, and look a couple of times but didn't see the camper (caravan). I do remember seeing the helicopter going past a couple of times.
I was in the crowd there as well. Just five years old. I vividly remember the incredible noise and the sight of that thing climbing into the sky, the bright flames of those rockets, all of it.
There's something amazing to see old tech restored to look its best!
When you work in Engineering or Manufacturing (guess what I used to do for a living) there's an addadge: 'Cleaning is a form of inspection'... Don't know about you, but my other half often mocks me for cleaning my car's engine bay with as toothbrush!
That's one reason I keep my cars clean (1972 Hillman Avenger and 1994 Toyota Celica). Many is the time I've spotted something which needed attention, when cleaning a car.
A TOOTHBRUSH? How barbaric. I'll assume it was a desperate moment after you ran out of q-tips.
One of my pet peeves (I have several) is when someone does a UA-cam presentation on some sort of item, they don't bother to clean the item and and in close up shots the dirt and debris are quite noticeable. I won't mention any names here.
TPM
Jai Stanley i just get glares of “what the hell are you doing?” When cleaning my airbrushes in a similar manner. 🤣
I laughed out loud when the device started worked when you took it apart. We used to call this CWT in the telecom industry or "cleared while resting" 🤣🤣🤣 or the tech gremlins :). Wonderful video as always!
I LOVE that little 45!! Apollo-era stuff just fascinates me. it just so happens that one of my favourite music albums of all time, Music from the Adventures of Pete and Pete (the soundtrack to the series) by the band Polaris, includes a bonus track full of excerpts which, upon reflection, might have been taken from a source like this very 45. the first time I heard it, not having bothered to stop playback when the music was over, I was immediately fascinated by these recordings - ranging from the Apollo crewmen to JFK himself. totally worth a listen, if you're into that sort of thing!
thanks for this amazing video, Mat!!
@3:12, thank God you used the same brand batteries, I dont think the universe can withstand another black hole forming because of mixing battery types! Please make sure they are from the same lot nr, even if they are spaced a day apart in manufacturing, there is a risk of a black hole opening up!
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The key thing is to remember to never place a Wilko battery at the end.
Yeah, not gonna go through the battery drawer, scouring so many batteries, mumbling about LOT#s...my family will take me to the farm, if you know what I mean...
That record cover has a kuprick graphic vibe about it
@@neilforbes416 Absolutely. I don't know if they used to be good, but Philips has been rubbish for years.
wow. the player looks like it was designed recently. no wonder collectors value it so much. design is decades ahead of its time.
Never underestimate the value of simply cleaning a machine.
>90% of things not working is due to either some kind of dirt or bad solder. 90% of the rest is incorrect usage/maintenance and bad capacitors.
Excellent, really enjoyed this episode. I was a young teen when these amazing products (at the time) & historical events were happening. Brings back memories of a somewhat kinder time.
There was also an LP with Apollo mission sound bites, highly sought after by DJs in the 1990s.
That really is a futuristic looking record player, it wouldn't have looked out of place even in the 1990s.
If only it were on Amazon, I'd grab it now, right now.
"News of the World"?
Great, now I can't get the theme song from Mock The Week out of my head.
The Jam - News Of The World
ASFP goddammit me too now I’ve read you comment🤣
Now I've got it!
Getting rid of vibration can also be accomplished (well in most cases anyways) by sticking various densities of foam adhesive tape on the underside of the metal platen holding the whole thing (dampens any resonance, esp. if you use several densities of foam).
Thanks for the tip.
One of my first memories is watching the moon landing in the middle of the night with my dad (I was 5 at the time). The record player is probably worth more than the record on it.
I remember the landing, got dragged out of bed a 3am to watch the ghostly hopping of the astronauts across a black and white TV screen.
Needed to have the Muppets arguing over the credibility of the moon landing... 😂
LOL I Second. i noted missing them 'Landing a spot on the show'. Too busy chasing Moon Beams, i guess. : )
That is on his Sony TC-50 video. ua-cam.com/video/oJXRVyszFbo/v-deo.html
Thank You Andrew's Wife for Saving Record from trash and Thanks Andrew for sending it!
And as always I Thank You Techmoan.
Really sorry the Tech-Puppets hadn't Landed a spot here. : ( _perhaps their next orbit around_ ; }
@@tuppswahey Sure = ) GREAT - So glad to hear! ~ Peace to you both! ~- *
At first glance it looks like some kind of modern cooking device.
As someone who wasn't alive back then, if you told me it was from '79 or '89 I'd believe it. Looks modern and mass-produced inside.
Another quality video. Thanks!
Oops I meant ain't no planet X coming cuz ain't no space cuz ain't not globe earth.
One of my Mom's earliest memories was watching the moon landing.
What a time to be alive.
the Philips ufo pfff! I don't know how many I reserviced but the number is very high
for the collectors, there are many more colors than in the catalog so if you think you got them all than think again there's blue, red yellow, black, smokey brown, smokey grey, transparent, and green and a shortlived export model had nontransparent colored lids.
the motors on these differ and some have a plate with a raised center to keep the motor spindle from vibrating under the main motor plate others have a bar going across the underside of the motor with a little ball baring under the motor spindle.
in a lot of casses, the motor is just stuck nothing a little oil can't help fix in the worst case the idle wheel was worn down and doesn't touch the plateau anymore then the rubber wheel needs to be replaced
what I failed to mention is the trouble with the hinge on these and it's rather important if you have one nl they all fail its a piece of plastic screwed in both the body and lid and the plate goes real thin in the middle and that's where they all eventually crack in two it wasn't meant to last 50+ years to mend this you take the two pieces and fold them like they would be if the hinge was closed then use the bolt holes to screw them shut the broken hinge is now shut in place sand it down a bit then use bookbinder glue and rub it over the affected area then when dry glue a strip of cloth over it and let dry then cover with said glue and let dry.
last take a thin sheet of plastic and match all the bolt holes and punch those out then put it back on the machine and you can play for another 10 years or so.
The design of that record player is soooooooooo ahead of it's time, because it looks like as if it was made yesterday.
I was 12 years old and set on the floor watching it all on a small black and white tv. I remember it like it was yesterday.
Brilliant way to celebrate arguably the greatest achievement of mankind!
Don't actually know why people would thumb down this vid tbh!!
Just gonna say I love the cleaning parts of your videos. I love taking things apart and fixing things!
Grate video! I remember the Apollo 11 moon landing, and you can't please everyone. I enjoy you video for what they are.
The Moon Landing had better not have any content matches. If someone is trying to claim that audio footage, they are mental. You can't 'claim' history.
If someone has tried to we need to get the pitchforks out and start a angry mob
@@mrfluffytailthethird get those pitchforks then. Shit, Nestlé is actively trying to take water rights from people, so of course someone would have had to try to claim something historic for profit. Greed always wins.
Every past event is history, no?
shadowtheimpure Some stations like CBS in the US are uploading their original broadcasts from 1969, featuring their own reporters etc. I would expect their copyright departments to routinely put the whole thing into the content match database without distinguishing their own parts from the government public domain parts.
shadowtheimpure, eh, we're talking about Google/UA-cam here...
This is great.
I've never seen one of those record players before. Philips on a Philips too.
I have that record. Early one sold on eBay for £15 with 7 bids. Naturally the prices have gone up given the 50th anniversary.
I was all about the space program growing up, I remember that flight well. As an adult I eventually worked in aerospace and the space program was what got me interested in that arena. Awesome memories and it looks like manned space flight is making a bit of a comeback, which I'm all for.
You can vary weight tracking by using a small spring end unter the tonearm pivot ; there's three weights to chose : 3.5, 4.5 and more or less 5 g.
A common issue is the AC 187/188 transistors became sort of petrified. They're better changed but if you gently hit them that'll break the mess causing the short-circuits inside and they'll work again for some time. The more you'll use them again the less they'll freeze again.
You can also better the sound quite nicely by replacing the sponge rubber washer damping the loudspeaker in the small white holder (you can find some in DIY shops). It will make the coloured bowl vibrate again and give a bit more bass. This and a good new made stylus with fresh rubber will lead the sound to be quite pleasant.
If you're interested I just had some rubber laser cut with the right round shape and a few cable holders in case it breaks when you open the speaker case (anti-clockwise turn).
I just DJied disco music at a party with mine and that was wild fun ^_^
@@vwestlife Indeed I didn't know the exact word ^^ Odd you say that, theses phlips cartridges are pretty common I should say. New ones are sold at prohibitive profes but second hand can be allright.
Thanks for that!
Thought you were joking about the content match...but then again, this is UA-cam 😁
I can only imagine the people in 50 years on the neural quantum net. Reliving the historical date from 100 years ago and then the 50th anniversary. When they used the quaint physical objects to transmit ideas from device to device and they ponder who was this voice from the past on that strange primitive thing called the Internet back when humanity was confined to one world.
My how times have changed. UA-cam would have never flagged this in 1969, but might today. smh.
What a nice little record player ... it certainly has that "space age" vibe that was popular way back then. I could imagine one of those in the dash of my flying car....
i am so sorry to read the description ! i have enjoyed your TECH channel. i don't normally comment A) disability and B) when i watch your content, technology connections LTT or any other tech channel , i learn from them... as you all are consistently excellent in the presentation, i have had no queries.., yea, though we live in 'algorithmia', engagement is a unit of measure... yes we went, yes, they are both spheres and goaweay with other shyte!
Techmoan, I'm so happy that you buy and work on all this tech. If you weren't doing this I'd be going into debt buying all this stuff (not to mention running out of space for everything at home) but since you do it for me I'm able to keep my house less cluttered. You also save me money because I myself don't have to buy anything. Thanks again!
I still have a set of colour slides I bought back in 1969, of shots taken on the moon by the astronauts. These were sold here in NSW Australia as a promotion by the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.
Another fantastic bit of history Mat. Thanks fr showing it and stuff all the idiots who say we never went to the moon.
I was a young man of 17 when this all happens and I went back home to Norwich because we had a pub called Man on The moon which got a special licence to say open all night.
Why didn't they bring back any of that green moon cheese?
Lordy that takes me back I was 10 years old ,watched it on a black and white TV
Jeez I feel old . Thanks for the memories (ten points if you can reference the last four words)
well... "the last few words" are in reference to the words before them. No? : )
@@keithbrown7685 Actually that was from the Bob Hope show
Nice - how easily these old devices can be maintenanced :-)
But first assosiation seeing the UFO was "hey it looks like an iMac", leading to two conclusions:
I should have thought "hey the iMac looks like the UFO" and "History truly's repeating - designs will come back" ;-)
Ive was clearly referencing fifties - sixties space age design with the iMac.
Crazy how people saw it as something completely new and not retro at all.
People are idiots.
@@Frisenette I'd say "easy to fool" (not ready to admit i'm an idiot yet ;-)
That is a helluva gadget, loving the design, especially the position of the speaker. I’ve been following the historical moon landing spots on TV here, they certainly didn’t hold back on bigging up the event, so far I’ve heard one of the original reporters call it the culmination of man’s evolution and Nixon said it was the biggest event since the dawn of time. Ok then.
Hyperbole aside, it has to rank as one of (so far) mankind's greatest achievements. The whole world was captivated by it. The only thing to have had a similar global impact since was 9/11, unfortunately for all the wrong reasons. The best and the worst of humanity.
Ingleprop Noosegarm all very true, and it’s no wonder there was a bit of hyperbole considering the time and costs, in both dollars and lives, a decade plus in the making, the entire world watching, I’m hoping to catch that movie of it that’s showing btw, looks real interesting.
Beautiful job cleaning that record player! A tip of the hat to you, sir!
Born in 1970 since I was a child I was always in love with record players of any kind. Thanks to you I am still in heaven watching at your awesome videos !
Wow! Seeing the record spin and hearing those words come out of it really felt like I was transported back in time...
"the barest beginning" of the space program. yes, we've had huge colonies on the moon since 1999, haven't we? well, at least until the moon was blasted out of earth orbit
That record is beyond cool. Thanks for the great video and walk down memory lane
Nice, and you can see that in the time, the circuit diagram was included in the machine.
Fun fact: when Neil Armstrong said One small leap for man and one giant leap for mankind. He actually said One small leap for a man and one giant leap for man kind. Thats during the pause which the temporarily lost transmission. Also the Apollo audio is open source and anyone can listen to it anytime. JFK made it this was and made it to where it could never be copyrighted.
@ my spelling sucks for a reason. So I'm not always going to do great at it.
1969? That really is a futuristic design. If you had just held it up and said this was made in 1999 we would have believed you.
Two vids in only a few days? Yes please!
Keep up the good work fella!
We have the National Geographic Eva-Tone flexidisc commemorating the moon landing.
I absolutely remember the historic Moon landing by Apollo 11. My family was riveted to the TV.
Thanks for this, Mat.
Thank you Matt for at least making an effort to weed out the yahoos and their comments. I thoroughly enjoy your videos, and was immediately ticked off at some of the comments. Unfortunately, you can't fix stupid. At least you tried. Keep up the great work.
Maybe grow up a little and stop getting upset at opinions that are different than yours :)
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1:46 i'm too imature to see this
I remember that, at the time here in Australia it was during school hours and the whole school got to watch it on tv in the hall.
Mentorcase Was that the undamaged feed from the downlink in Australia or the doubly converted stream that was converted from 625 line to 437 lines and back (which is what most countries got via Houston)?
I have no idea, I was only 8 at the time.
You sure know how to find these cool, odd and/or interesting hardware and records!
It's more or less that thanks to you, i have a Sharp RP-117 and a SONY PS-F5 as my favorite turntables
Wow that discrete amplifier schematic is beautifully simplistic, what a work of art - it's so clear too in the video I could clone it
Knowing my interest, my friend Steve gave me a copy of that same record for my birthday back in January. Strangely enough, my copy has a large centre hole with a 45 RPM adaptor. My understanding was that large hole singles released in the UK were produced to be played in juke boxes; surely this particular record would be a weird choice of single for a juke box. I wonder if it was ever employed in such a way?
Your record was likely produced for the US market, where a 45 typically has the large center hole (RCA actually originally developed the 45 this way back in 1949; the large hole made it more convenient to use, particularly with RCA's own line of automatic 45 rpm record players - and supposedly, it allowed the jukebox manufacturers to simplify their mechanisms as well.
@@xaenon I doubt that the copy I have of this record was intended for the US market, because the label states "This pressing is an historic souvenir exclusively for News Of The World readers". According to discogs.com the serial number 88457 DE is correct for the UK pressing.
@@spurioustransients Hmmm. That's interesting. I wonder if the record was produced in the US and they just didn't press them with the small hole for the UK? That's definitely a mystery. If you ever find the answer, I'd very much be interested to learn about it.
What a great video which mixed the record and turntable perfectly.
Thanks so much for making this. 🙂
Your videos are always entertaining... keep up the great work
24 people currently downvoting because they believe the moon landing was fake.
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The first that pop up in to my memory is: Dance to trance with the melody "We came in peace". Search it up on YT, it`s a classic trance track :-)
This one ua-cam.com/video/6-5tZRzCGzU/v-deo.html
It's amazing to me that 1991 is only 22 years removed from 1969, whereas 1991 is 28 years removed from 2019.
Another thing I never really appreciated: the moon landing effort began in earnest in 1962 (Kennedy at Rice University) and completed by 1969. Then they did moon landings up until Dec 1972. Then Apollo was replaced by the Space Shuttle that operated from 1981 to 2011 (30 years, 135 launches).
The reason I never appreciated the close proximity between Apollo and the Shuttle was because I was born in 1968, so I was too young to appreciate any of the moon trips. Obviously I heard of them, but to me they were always something from way back in the deep past. I always regarded the shuttle as the modern way to launch, and the rockets of old to be out of date and wasteful. Well they were - but then so too were the solid boosters off the shuttle.
Oh well - and very interesting track too, btw!
Space Oddity would be a great record to play on this.
This may sound cheesey, but I highly respect the attention to specification tolerances & strivng to meet the nominal. I'm a QC tech and a vinyl enthusiast; This video hits home for me. Job well done, Techmoan!
I first started work back in the early 1980's as a Service Engineer. I notice that this record player like many other Philips devices at the time has a Circuit Diagram included inside the product to make the life of the Service Engineer a lot easier. I don't remember any other manufacturers ever doing this.
Telefunken did this too. You would often find them folded up and stuffed into a nice little envelope inside the cabinet. In USA, the KLH and Advent electronic products usually had schematics printed on paper and glued to the bottle cover. Many Japanese transistor radios would also supply a schematic on the inside back cover.
I think it used to be more common in earlier decades, maybe? I have a radio from the 60s made by Kriesler in Australia which also has the circuit diagram stuck to the inside of the case.
This was pretty cool. I was barely 6 years old when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. Back then I couldn't understand the excitement. I grew up in an age of massive change I guess. Nowadays I have more respect for what was achieved. When you consider that a scientific calculator from the mid-70s had more computing power than the Lunar module, it puts a new perspective on it. Back then we had no idea that Honeysuckle Creek dish in Australia beamed the first steps on the moon to millions around the world, or that Parkes covered most of the mission vision.
Nor 'right to repair' problems with this. Even a schematic inside. :)
i have (somewhere) a plastic insert that was included in National Geographic magazine that you could play on a record player.
Yes. A flexidisc. Quite common on the covers of magazines, particularly music magazines.
Sir Moan of Techshire, I would love to know what type and make of car audio you have had over the years? I think I'm right in saying that I'm probably around the same era as yourself I.e NWA for example, spoonie gee , Johnny Hammond . I would love to see a video on this subject plus just to be nosey , find out what vehicles you had said audio in . Thank you for brightening my life up immeasurably !
That was *fantastic* !!!
Thanks for the dual 50 year “look back”!
All the newspapers of the time produced similar souvenirs, I have a standard 8mm film of the moon landings sold via the daily express in 1969, sadly they used cheap colour film stock, so it has gone a bit pink now.
I would love to own some of that memorabilia. I can't believe they actually sold the footage on 8mm film!
@Matt Quinn well, I know home video didn't exist and all, knew you could buy versions of movies and obviously play back homemade films, I just would never have thought of 8mm films as souvenir items from special events, more so considering film stock is rather delicate and even flammable. plus spending a bunch of money on a film only to play it back using a toy projector seems like a bad investment... I wish I could get my hands on one, though! I know the feeling you get from missing out back then, if only one could back to such events... cheers!
Rob Blaize Very Un related but you just solved a Mystery for me! I remember watching looney tunes many years ago on Boomerang and at the end of many of them would show a logo for a company called Associated Artists Productions with some of the characters but it was almost all red and I never knew why until now! Thank you for that even though you didn’t mean to!
Chilled out Sunday pleasure after a stressful day.
great bit of history there playing the disk on authentic 1969 player, I remember staying up and watching this live and listening to Patrick Moore getting quite excited, I was 16 at the time so that sticks in my mind as a awesome moment in human history, cant help but think we have gone backwards over the last few years.
I was sooo happy when you said it didn't work, love these repair videos.
1969, what a year! Man on the moon, UFO philips record player and UK was filming UFO, the memorable tv series!
So many memories flood. Wow. I appreciate how you present the history in context. 2 days to go... we need puppets on the moon. :)
Good video, wonderfully timed. Thank you. For a cleanup tip. Have found old-school mineral spirts do a great job on plastics like the black deck surface. Atop of working well, mineral spirts are inexpensive.
Philips also designed a space helmet-shaped TV in the 80s, which was a pretty iconic design..