YAYYYY!!!! I got mine today for Christmas!!! I was so SURPRISED and so HAPPY!!!! I have been wanting one for years!!! I know I'm very young but my parents are baby boomers so I grew up listening to the old 33s and 45s. I'm a music lover so I gotta have it and I GOT IT!!!! :-O Except mine is from 1973. COOLIO!!!! :-D
If there's a counterweight spring adjustment, I would take a little bit of weight off of the needle. I discovered that doing this made the skips not happen. I discovered this a long time ago by accident. Thank you for posting.
Thanks I was using this kinda wrong. I just came across one this past weekend. And mind works perfectly as well. Where can I find the date code. How do I change out a needle. And it is a bit dusty how do I clean it.
Brief update: I did get it to play 45's,BUT have a new problem......as soon as the player hits the eject cycle,the tonearm jumps back to the last 6 seconds to a minute of the record - either LP OR 45.
Sad update: Due to an accident, I no longer have my GE player. :'( Apparently, according to my husband, he was rearranging the bedroom and accidentally dropped it,destroying the unit. It was,excepting the skipping backwards, a great player.
I have this same record player. Does anyone know the model name? Is it belt driven? The speed fluctuates slightly on mine. Does anyone know how to fix this? How do you open it up? Thanks!
The reason your records skip on this player is because the player is pre 1980. Most pre 1980 record players (with the exception of Magnavox) have cartridges that are too low in compliance rating to play post 1980 records. In, or around 1980 record pressers switched to a more pure vinyl that was higher in fidelity. The resulting records would not play well on older machines. Many post 1980 discs skip occasionally even on many modern MM cartridge turntables. An occasional skip on an older player is just something you have to live with, or get a changer with a MM cartridge. (there were many up until about 1982) or change the cartridge to a modern Japanese ceramic, if you can find a way to make it fit. You can always resort to a glue gun, I suppose.
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YAYYYY!!!! I got mine today for Christmas!!! I was so SURPRISED and so HAPPY!!!! I have been wanting one for years!!! I know I'm very young but my parents are baby boomers so I grew up listening to the old 33s and 45s. I'm a music lover so I gotta have it and I GOT IT!!!! :-O Except mine is from 1973. COOLIO!!!! :-D
If there's a counterweight spring adjustment, I would take a little bit of weight off of the needle. I discovered that doing this made the skips not happen. I discovered this a long time ago by accident. Thank you for posting.
Excellent tune.. I consider "Now I Need You" by Donna Summer one of her best tracks ever made - way ahead of its time for 1977.
thats neat. I got one thats black. From a thrift store. just put a video of mine on this morning. Thats cool.
Thanks I was using this kinda wrong. I just came across one this past weekend. And mind works perfectly as well. Where can I find the date code. How do I change out a needle. And it is a bit dusty how do I clean it.
Brief update: I did get it to play 45's,BUT have a new problem......as soon as the player hits the eject cycle,the tonearm jumps back to the last 6 seconds to a minute of the record - either LP OR 45.
Sad update: Due to an accident, I no longer have my GE player. :'(
Apparently, according to my husband, he was rearranging the bedroom and accidentally dropped it,destroying the unit. It was,excepting the skipping backwards, a great player.
Did you say the Berlin Farmer's Market ?? If so, I never found anything cool like this there.
Randy, The Lazy Comic I got mine there a couple of weeks ago. :-)
GE radio, stereo and television were all k-r-a-p.
Jerry Henderson I had a GE radio it wasn't k-r-a-p...it was good
Hi. i have this same record player but it doesn't have the same changer and it isn't that orangey color on the base. Is that not original?
I have this same record player. Does anyone know the model name? Is it belt driven? The speed fluctuates slightly on mine. Does anyone know how to fix this? How do you open it up? Thanks!
The reason your records skip on this player is because the player is pre 1980. Most pre 1980 record players (with the exception of Magnavox) have cartridges that are too low in compliance rating to play post 1980 records. In, or around 1980 record pressers switched to a more pure vinyl that was higher in fidelity. The resulting records would not play well on older machines. Many post 1980 discs skip occasionally even on many modern MM cartridge turntables. An occasional skip on an older player is just something you have to live with, or get a changer with a MM cartridge. (there were many up until about 1982) or change the cartridge to a modern Japanese ceramic, if you can find a way to make it fit. You can always resort to a glue gun, I suppose.
I have one I picked up at the St. Vincent De Paul. Five dollars. The volume is low
What needle did you use