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PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 7:28 pm    Post subject: Record player in camper? ;) Reply with quote

Has anyone besides me thought of doing this?! Not for during driving obviously but for during camping. One of those portable suitcase style ones maybe. I keep thinking about it...kinda funny. Maybe cause VW buses AND turntables are both so "retro cool" these days! I've been playing lots of records at home lately too which is the other reason - and absolutely loving it. Seems like a fun combo! Especially for a music-themed bus!
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Was that a Bus record player?

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 9:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am amazed by that technology! Dang.

The only thing I'd be concerned with having a record player for camping would heat damage to the records. I guess it all depends on how you would store them. Somebody on here has a record player in their camper, but I don't recall the user right now.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have vinyl, but not a portable. Just a solid-state Hi-Fi. A portable is cool, but it's more weight to drag around in your already underpowered bus. What the hell, so what? You would want to keep in mind it needs to be fairly level, out of the sun and you'll need to be parked. It would surely skip and scratch your LP when you drive. Other than that, pop the top or slide back that roof and close the curtains, put the music on, fold out that Z bed and get down! Twisted Evil Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why yes. Someone besides you has thought about doing this Wink
Might think about getting a second turntable annnnnd a microphone Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 11:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How about (from the '50's):
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 12:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I find, despite not much talent, that it's more fun to be a player than a spectator; a fellow traveler than a passenger.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 6:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Then there are many portables.





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PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 9:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Decent turntables are very sensitive to vibration. I have trouble with mine in a house with wood floors, and every time someone walks around the house, the needle picks it up. This would be way worse in a camper, I would think.

That said, I LOVE those designs that others posted above. I never knew those existed!
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 7:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another portable 45rpm player from the 50's, record loaded like a cd player into slot on side.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 7:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some of the Beatles had turntables in their cars or limos.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 8:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I did, it's on the second shelf, and runs through my head unit in the dash:

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2020 1:45 am    Post subject: Re: Record player in camper? ;) Reply with quote

Demonstration of the ARC 2500 car record player.
I installed an ARC 2500 car record player in the 60's.
It worked great and did not skip even going over pot and pan holes.
I did not try going off a cliff, don't try this.... not a good ending.

I restored two units with preamp for a Bluetooth transmitter or CD player.


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2020 10:09 pm    Post subject: Re: Record player in camper? ;) Reply with quote

^^^^^^^^ that is awesome! I didn’t know anything like that existed.

Those are not standard size records are they? Looks too big for 45s and too small for LPs, unless the unit is deceptively smaller than it looks.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 9:14 am    Post subject: Re: Record player in camper? ;) Reply with quote

It plays the records with the big hole.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

TomWesty wrote:
Some of the Beatles had turntables in their cars or limos.


..like here with a Philips Mignon record player. Worked with the DIN socket on blaupunkts an others.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:36 am    Post subject: Re: Record player in camper? ;) Reply with quote

I sometimes bring along this 60-70s picknic player om trips and meetings. Have a collection of doublets that are in less good condition and a friend donated a stack of 45ers. You don't want to play your rarest records on this kind of player.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I did, it's on the second shelf, and runs through my head unit in the dash:

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Dude! Thats awesome! Well done. Nice, clean, classy build. I dig your style. Cheers, jay

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