[BC] Lincoln Automatic Turntable...

[KKTY]

Did they ask you to "fix" anything else?

;-)

Dennis Switzer
KKTY AM/FM
Douglas, WY


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Burt I. Weiner" <biwa at earthlink.net>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 11:05 AM
Subject: [BC] Lincoln Automatic Turntable...


> 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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