Jan 19 2009
oil bath for the bearing shaft
I have four hundred kilograms of vinyl records here that I brought from Australia to London. They take up a stupid amount of space. And all the music I listen to now is on MP3. (Or AAC. Or Ogg.)
The trouble with vinyl is that eventually you’ll need to restore things to play it on. Good things. Nice things. This is a photo from a series about restoring a 1960s Thorens TD 124 Mk II record player. It was tanais’ father’s, bought the year he was born. So he recovered it, cleaned it and restored it and now uses it as his own preferred turntable.
My parents bought one of the last of the HMV four-speed turntables in 1971. Then they decided they should buy some records to play on it. TV compilations. All the K-Tel you can eat. Awful, awful.
Photo: “Oil bath for the bearing shaft” by tanais. Taken 6 June 2008. CC by 2.0.
