# "Will you tape my record for me?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 17, 2004, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324 "2004-12-17T13:12:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324/21 "2004-12-18T10:45:25Z")
I BOUGHT a turntable recently - after coming back from Japan, and sorting through some of my old stuff stored in my parents’ garage, I found my old record collection - some good stuff in there I’d completely forgotten I had! My old stereo was long gone - I lent it to my sister, and I think her ex-husband walked off with it - so I bought a new turntable at Dick Smith’s {they’re now marketing them for people to burn old vinyl on to CD…} I have to say, Led Zep’s **Houses Of The Holy** sounds a whole lot better on vinyl. And yeah, Little Case is fascinated by it. Mind you, all he wants to hear is “Yellow Submarine”. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324/22 "2004-12-18T10:49:55Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Hey, my Grandmother has a bunch of these old records that are smaller than an LP, but larger than a 33. About the size of a dinner plate. They’re really heavy. Any idea what they are and if I can still get a player for them? Are they these “45s” of which **Daithi Lacha** speaks? They’re heavy because they’re made of bakelite {an early kind of ur-plastic} rather than “vinyl”. Pick up an old telephone sometime and see how much that weighs. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324/23 "2004-12-18T10:58:06Z")
:: raises hand re: stereo 8-track player/recorder, ‘portable’ 8-track player [about the size of a briefcase and twice as heavy], and 5 foot long console stereo with LP/45 turntable, AM/FM stereo and 8-track player, complete with monster-sized stereo headsets [parents bought it from Reader’s Digest (yes, the magazine) in the early 70s], all now housed in the parents’ basement :: :: points to collection of RCA Victor 78s (opera excerpts), multi-speed (monophonic) record player [16, 33-1/3, 45, 78] with adjuster knob (could tweak the rev speed of each up or down (45 becomes 46, 47 or 48-ish), a couple of 16rpm records (minus read-along books they came with, especially “The Little Engine That Could!”, my favorite back then :mad: ) and a small collect of records cut from the back of cereal boxes :: :: looks at computer, wondering about Ebay :: ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324/24 "2004-12-18T14:40:25Z")
My hubby fixes all of that old stuff at his job. He just got done repairing an old reel-to-reel tape player yesterday and is all the time working on old turntables and such. Apparently that old stuff gets used a lot more than I realized. If you ever need any of that stuff worked on, **fishbicycle** … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324/25 "2004-12-18T15:02:59Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > If you ever need any of that stuff worked on, **fishbicycle** … 😉 Actually, my tape deck with the dbx NR has, I believe, a solenoid that’s gone bad. I could use it otherwise, but it won’t engage in play, or stay there, or something (it’s been a long time since I turned it on!). If he’s interested in having a look at it, maybe we could get together and work something out. It’s a Technics M275x with logic control. What does he figure something like that would cost to fix? ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324/26 "2004-12-18T15:07:04Z")
Oh yeah, and I have a nice turntable that just died on me one day. The record I was playing was “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye.” The tonearm lifted up, returned to home position, and the turntable died on the spot. Fitting, no? I need that fixed, too. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324/27 "2004-12-18T15:08:52Z")
When he rolls out of bed I’ll ask him. 😛 I’m sending you an email. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324/28 "2004-12-18T15:13:43Z")
I think turntables have been his favorite thing to fix. Lordy, that reminds me…I told my dad about _two months_ ago, I’d ask my husband about some needles for his turntable. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324/29 "2004-12-18T15:18:14Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Are they these “45s” of which **Daithi Lacha** speaks? Actually, I mis-spoke. What we had were indeed 78s. Whilst typing, I had some doggerel going through my head: _Platter, platter, spinning slow Victor 45 must go Push the switch and turn the lever Presley can’t go on forever._ -Ronny Graham, “Upstairs at the Downstairs” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324/30 "2004-12-18T15:23:18Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Raise your hand if you’ve got an 8-track recorder. Heck, raise your hand if you _ever_ had an 8-track recorder. Raises hand! It was on a combo unit I got when I was 14. Turntable, AM-FM radio, and 8-track player/recorder. Biggest pain in the ass to use. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324/31 "2004-12-18T15:35:56Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Raise your hand if you’ve got an 8-track recorder. Heck, raise your hand if you _ever_ had an 8-track recorder. \*::: raises hand ::: \* I had one. The first stereo I ever got (must have been '76 or '77) had an 8-track tape player and recorder, a dual cassette deck and a turntable. That thing was tricked out, let me tell you! 😛 I had it till I went off to college and bought myself a boombox with a cassette player, and I recorded all my albums and 8-tracks onto cassettes to take with me. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324/32 "2004-12-18T16:32:13Z")
I bought my “State of the Art” component stereo in 1983. I’m convinced its remains the state of _some_ are somewhere. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324/33 "2004-12-18T16:33:20Z")
AR_T_ ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324/34 "2004-12-18T18:20:09Z")
I think there may have been an 8-track in my dad’s car growing up. Those are the things that look vaguely like Atari game cartrdges, right? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324/35 "2004-12-18T18:29:44Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I think there may have been an 8-track in my dad’s car growing up. Those are the things that look vaguely like Atari game cartrdges, right? [8 track tapes](http://www.collectmad.com/collectibles/upacstrk8.htm) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324/36 "2004-12-18T20:03:41Z")
Indeed, dose are dem, but to have a device that could _play_ them is one thing; to have the more complicated device that could also _record_ them was significantly more unusual. (Most folks who had 8-track rigs just bought and played the commercial 8-track tapes. Don’t know why, but recording your own from record or radio or live or whatever didn’t catch on for 8-tracks the way it did a bit later for cassette tapes). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-tape-my-record-for-me/280324.md?page=1)