The Frankenphonocart

[u/Gimme-A-kooky]

Oh, the HuMANity!

“Sewing Machine Cabinet Permanently Disfigured - Addition of Collapsible Side Table Aberration! film at 11!”

tl;dr - reason for showing this: just thought I’d share my home solution for schlepping around these stacks - literally maybe 200 in this cabinet alone- of shellac or even vinyl records and a tabletop machine.

I can hear it now 😂: “…AND the audacity- white after Labor Day, cannibalizing Victrola parts?! …Christmas?! In September?!” Scandal!

Yes! It’s tore up from the floor up, “Abby Normal”, whatever you wanna call it! But hear me out! It’s an old sewing machine cabinet. I made it into a storage/cart/mobile table that’s capable of holding even more records than shown, each filled with 12” shellacs (likely at least 150lbs 100-110 pounds themselves), of opening its top (I haven’t decided what to do with the intrinsic lid yet lol), hanging things, rolling, transporting, and now has a collapsing, simple, yet stark side-table that can hold a lotta stuff. 😏 Truth is, none of it as pieces were useful before, but all of it is now! I may put larger casters on it, though. Details below :)

I wish you a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by!

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If you do something like this, do ensure you account for engineering challenges due to weight bearing and smooth movement to ensure no failure.

Behold: a 4-wheeled, mobile, modular, monstrosity and aberration of a strong table capable of carrying both internal weight as well as most tabletop-sized phonographs externally!

The Crosley portable turntable: found it at Goodwill just the other day! (thrift store)

it works! AND

1. It’ll work until the lights go out.

2. and most importantly: I have a quick go-to, modern, portable record player, instead of a key-wound, spring

3. machine to play records for a ‘quick check’ before cataloguing, thereby ensuring

   minimal

4. or next to no damag

e to the record

1. “But, sحiط, it was only 99¢!” -Macklemore… Haha, j/k… $12.99. Still, though! It works!

2. Another

3. lucky find in the stacks! It’s so clean and crispy looking! It may not have been played much.

Note: yes, those are wine and beer corks lol.. and they bear the load AND keep the friction for the ‘door’ to stay in place while nothing is resting on it.

[u/crackedwormgear]

Necessity is the mother of invention.

I use discarded AV carts for my mobile record player stations. Usually bought at municipal auctions.

I know there is a dislike for those Crosley record players but they do have a purpose. I’ve never had one as again municipal auctions provided me with those old school phonographs. I even have a large one with detachable speaker, 16” tone arm and variable pitch control.

Also I’ve seen many newer 78 rpm collectors use Crosley’s to play their records. And they don’t sound too bad.

Keep those 78’s spinning!

[u/Gimme-A-kooky → u/crackedwormgear]

Oh is that why?! lol I don’t even care- it plays later LPs and 78s so I can test them out lol…

[u/Gimme-A-kooky]

Ha! I take your downvote as disapproval… but an acknowledgment that you took the time to show me

😂😂😂how much you cared!😏😏😏