[BC] Lincoln Automatic Turntable...

[Burt I. Weiner]

Back when I was a little kid of about ten, my folks had friends who 
had this fancy home with a built in music system in a closet.  The 
record player was made by a company named Lincoln.  It had a really 
tall spindle and the thing would take records off of one stack, move 
them to the spindle and lower them.  After that record finished it 
would either pick the record up over the tall spindle and turn it 
over and play the other side, or move it to the second, finished 
stack or go get another record from the first stack.  Well, this 
thing had a problem.  the records would sometimes hang up on the long 
spindle.    My assignment was to fix it(!).  I did and afterwards it 
worked just fine.

So, part way through a nice dinner with pleasant music in the 
background I heard this horrific crash and the sound of records being 
"Busted" in half (or more pieces).  It turned out the beast had 
misjudged where the spindle was and started smashing records over the 
spindle.  It went through about ten records before I could get to it, 
gape in absolute amazement and unplug it.  For some reason my memory 
is sort of blank beyond that.

Burt

At 07:14 AM 1/3/2006, you wrote:

>Oh yeah, back to turntables... someone was asking about fully-automatics. I
>haven't seen one of those since about the time the Lava Lites went out.
>
>Willie...

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