How the hell do you play five-inch singles on a turntable?

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You know, when it thinks it's reached the end of the record and flips itself off. Is there some clever way to get round this problem, perhaps using weight in some way?

If anyone has any tips they could offer, I'd be very grateful and then you can go back to PJ Harvey and Black Dice again. Thank you.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

buy a better turntable without an automatic arm

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

put arm on very slowly.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks Mark, I'll try that and yes rentboy that will be the long-term solution

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

My very first record player had an adjustable return, you could set it to hit at 10 inches, or not at all.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

(actually, it wasn't so much a 'return', more a 'switch turntable off with stylus still on the record' feature)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I am confused as to how "DJ Mencap" would appear to have a crappy Bush/Matasui record deck.

I suggest pushing it really hard. When it breaks, you will have all the reason more to buy a decent record deck.

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

If I was a real DJ I'd have chosen a better name than this, frankly, rather embarrassing one - but yes the deck is very old and very shit and is going to get replaced as soon as I've moved house.

I've just had an idea - if I put a 7" under the 5" on the turntable and played the 7" from the start, would that work? It sounds unlikely

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"I've just had an idea - if I put a 7" under the 5" on the turntable and played the 7" from the start, would that work?"

If by "work" you mean "completely and utterly fuck my stylus", then the answer's and unequivocal yes, absolutely.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

if I put a 7" under the 5" on the turntable

You would end up doing damage to both the 5" and 7" (this is why nobody makes turntables that you can stack records on anymore).

― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

What the hell is a five-inch single???

― Unknown User, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Singles that are smaller than a seven inch single.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

by approximately two inches, i'd wager.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Not only smaller but unlikely to last as long....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

...especially if he plays it ontop of the seven inch whereupon its destruction is imminent...

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

What the hell is a five-inch single???

The actual dimensions of a record touted (on the internet) as being seven-inches

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Not so, I have some that have lasted a long time...

Jona Lewie - Big Shot (momentarily)
Squeeze - Another nail through my heart
Radio Stars - From a rabbit

.. probably as I haven't played them (much)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Be honest Mark, some of those aren't as rigid as they might be, are they? One of them's decidely floppy IIRC and certainly only one of them's genuinely Stiff!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought the "not last as long" was a bad time-based pun.

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Your point being?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

and what about the Gala Goldentone label?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I have absolutely no idea - what about the Gala Goldentone label?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

5" 78 rpm red wax 'nursery rhyme' singles. Available from 'Binns' back in the day...
The 'hi diddle diddle' with the beatles beat is an all time classic...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

ah! now you're talking. music's Golden Age!

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"hi diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle
The cow jumped over the moon
I've never seen a cow
that ever knew how
to jump so high, over four or five
in fact I've never seen how
a cow that could get more than two feet offa the ground"

"the little dog laughed to see such fun
and the dish ran away with the spoon
I don't blame that pup
for laffin it up
(missing this line)
in fact I'm laffin too
and if you believe this song I'm laffin at you"

and so on. Such cynicism marketed for five year olds...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Usually there is a screw you can use to adjust the automatic return.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

On five year olds? What ever will they think of next?!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

*rimshot*

Cheers all (again)

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes -- the adjustement screw for the automatic return is typically recessed near the base of the tonearm -- rotate clockwise to pick-up later.

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

check your 5" single asgain. if it's shiny, maybe it's a cd.

― matthew james (matthew james), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

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