Teardown: The Crosley RSD3 Mini Turntable Featuring 60s Flexi-Discs

[@terryhall3960]

Love how it's got the fake strobe markings on the outer ring - which doesn't actually rotate!

[@Capturing-Memories]

That motor is indeed a two speed motor, I think the way it is wired disables the two speed feature and their adjustments, The H is high speed adjustment, the L is the low speed adjustment, You can find some help online to rewire it correctly and restore the 45 rpm speed and the adjustment for both 33 and 45.

[@Fardemark]

I love that the new Beatles 3” records have a standard size hole and they can play on a real hip pocket player. I use my hip pocket player to play my 3” records mostly and I can play the previous releases on it using a plastic washer to adapt the hole to the smaller standard size. I’ve demoed some of these on my channel and also tried my hand at embossing 3” cds to make custom 3” records it’s quite fun

[@markseymour5558]

So glad to see you back!

[@HelloKittyFanMan....]

Ha, that little "TV" is really cute!

[@HelloKittyFanMan....]

I remember getting some square flexible records in little mailings or magazines or something like that when we were really young.

[@billkeithchannel]

May late dad has a stack of these from Science Digest and Ellery Queen that he got from the LOC blind/visually impaired ordering catalog.

[@Dee.J.Mogfry]

They are called pocket discs or hip discs.

[@HelloKittyFanMan....]

@@Dee.J.Mogfry: Not the ones we got. They were too big for pockets. like 45-sized but with the small hole, so 33.

[@ВячеславСпирин-ю7ц]

Купил, один раз послушал и больше никогда не включишь!!!!!!!!!

[@cultprosvet1]

Можно поподробнее пожалуйста

[@dj_bob]

это детская игрушка!

[@cultprosvet1]

@@dj_bob то есть «детские игрушки» спроектированы таким образом, чтобы включаться только один раз?

[@Musicradio77Network]

These 3” flexidiscs can also be played on Bandai’s 8Ban record player from Japan, and it can also play Talking View-Master flexidiscs.

[@databits]

My Bandai is on its way from Japan. Video coming soon!

[@HelloKittyFanMan....]

Cool video, thanks! I haven't seen one of yours for a long time--a few years, it feels like.

[@jhudso214]

I never knew that these tiny record players existed

[@RaymondMDay]

This is put together pretty much like Crosley's regular sized players....simple and cheap...even looks like the same board, wiring, cartridge as my Grace Picowriter....a Crosley based RCA/USB output unit....just smaller.

[@automatedelectronics6062]

There was a short-lived record company named Americom which also made 3" flexi-discs, with standard spindle holes and they were 33 1/3 rpm, so you can play them on the Crosley RSD3. The Americom discs featured The Beatles and other Apple artists. They were sold from a vending machine. I don't remember which, but there was a cereal company which included 3" 45rpm story flexi-discs as a bonus. I used to have a handful of them. I do still have a large collection of the Hip-Pocket records. If you want to speed the RSD3 up to 45 rpm, put a snug-fitting bushing over the motor spindle. Year ago, I found that I could slide a rubber vacuum hose over the spindle of my belt-driven Dual turntable to speed it up to play 78's. With the Crosley, it's even easier. Build the size of the spindle up using heat-shrink tubing adding more until the platter spins at 45 rpm.

[@carlosdj4884]

You can see that they are just using a jumper wire on the Molex Connector to achieve 33 rpm, try removing one side and it might be 45 RPM.

[@H2Oredfirefox]

For a brief second I thought it was a CD player that looks like a record player😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@KlingonCaptain]

You are not alone.

[@danieldaniels7571]

I actually saw that at Five Below yesterday for $20 and almost bought it

[@fiercefeline5096]

Those Hip Pocket records were sold in vending machines and were designed for the small portable transistor record players like the Singer and Columbia. There were a lot of odd formats at that time before people settled on 8Tracks and cassettes for portable and/or car use. If you actually carried a stack of these in your hip pocket they probably didn't last long.

[@perrybarton]

13:00 That's gotta be Jim Henson. What record is this?

[@databits]

It is the soundtrack to a vintage "talking" Viewmaster reel.

[@MinorLG]

I'm watching this video at two times speed and it sounds perfectly fine.

[@databits]

I always engineer my videos that way.

[@MinorLG]

@databits it was more so a comment about the slow record sounding correct at the increased speed.

[@dariuszjablonski1969]

I'm not to much into technical things but I guess it could be easily moded to operate both 33 and 45 speeds

[@databits]

Someone linked me to a video where they modded the motor spindle and got 45.

[@coondogtheman]

Can you play the record on that tiny gramophone on the crosley?

[@DavidMander-rs4uk]

The wow and flutter is strong with this one! 😆

[@RebrandSoon0000]

Maybe you can modify the turntable with a switch and some resistors or whatever could be used for 45 rpm. I never done anything of the sort but it would sound possible to do something.

[@sefusolace410]

👉🏾Do something? I’m not missing the point here. But, you can just buy an actual real life sized turntable… that’s what I would do! 🤷🏾‍♂️ 😂

[@kaitlyn__L]

So weird to see Crosley imitating an 80s Technics (or, indeed, a 2020s Technics) turntable rather than a midcentury RCA one. Especially since those mini discs clearly evoke early 45s, even moreso with that deep blue colour! This does seem kind of neat though. Is it me, or did they try harder with this novelty than they did with some of their full-production pieces...? I know they make _some_ better, "real", stuff, but...

[@Liova_LazyLion]

If it will be the recorder. That device will be interesting.

[@elijahvincent985]

It's good for a claymation prop at least.

[@marydehaven2539]

do you know or anybody else know were that record min withnol abel came from

[@Ashuy-e9c]

1980s i remember there is a christmas card have mini vinyl records

[@fhwolthuis]

A drop of oil may help the motor

[@carlosdj4884]

Sounds like too much tension for the plastic platter & spindles cheap design. But it's still a cool little TT conversation piece.

[@rustymixer2886]

How do i create flexi discs

[@databits]

You will need a record cutter and some plastic food plates. Not super flexi, but close!

[@rustymixer2886]

@databits ok thx

[@Gnc_Arteband]

Tem tanto tempo que eu não ouço um vinil que eu não as vezes sinta saudades da época que ouvia , Led Zeppelin, te who . Eric Clapton. Jeff Beck. Beatles, Milton Nascimento. 14 bis. Lo Borges. Ten years after. E outros. Mas o cd também faz falta, como o vídeo cassete. Mas tudo é pro avançado pela ciência. Valeu! Hoje temos até carros voadores...

[@nicolabelle1415]

This mini turntable is So cute but can guess the Discs will be hard to find or will be affordable at high prices …

[@12_inch_spinnerz]

But why?

[@TimothyTimPSP]

What experiments are you using the batteries for?

[@sazieboy64]

Interesting video. At the start I thought it was a turntable that reads CDs. That would be novel.

[@billkeithchannel]

We used coins back as a child to keep the flexi discs from slipping.

[@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777]

loved it - you can get that puppy choochin in 45 with the motor installed and minor mod maybe a pot is available

[@Onteo1]

The Beatles website has a version with 4 Beatle records for $199.00

[@LicocoS]

En la miniatura parece un compact disc en un lector con el laser en el brazo. nunca vendieron uno asi. lastima.

[@debojitacharjee]

How are you able to play a CD on this record player?Is it having a laser diode?

[@databits]

Hi there! The CD was embossed with grooves on a record cutting machine.

[@Ni5ei]

7:07 Stereo? Doesn't sound like it. Couldn't you have recorded it directly instead of your camera microphone recording a speaker?

[@JerryHickey-1958]

Here is What I say I think you got a first Generation of this type of player , I get the feeling that in time maybe a short amount of time they will make players like this for 45s and those Small records , they might can get them full album lengths . What I am Seeing since people are wanting to get Vinyl records again , they are mostly wanting to shrink down record sizes for easier storage and shipping cost for records .

[@vivileon]

When I want to connect it to my speakers do I also need to connect it to a pre-amp first?

[@databits]

You do not need a preamp.

[@franciscoxavier9617]

Será se vai chegar no Brazil

[@markmarkofkane8167]

So cute! I Wish I had it.

[@AMOKIAN]

Awesome

[@radionicpowers5938]

Cool video surely one could change the speed electronically to 45rpm ?

[@imrejoni8891]

Ami meglep hogy hagyományos bakelitnek néz ki a videón az első lemez a második az már a mini változata annak ami már volt a 80-as években is. Lehet az első se bakelit már valójában. Érdekelne hány mega vagy giga adatra képes ez a lemez?

[@MichaelStoneham]

ther motor sounds fairly quiet in the recording.

[@carojujulapassionhaster]

woooo j en veux une c'est trop bien merci pour ta vidéo

[@HelloKittyFanMan....]

Oh wow, I couldn't tell that that little hub was 3.5mm like a mini-ear/line plug!

[@enriquegonzalez2802]

So cute turntable! :D

[@stefanegger]

where can I buy a record cutter and a "LP-R"? LIke the Plastik Disk without a song? So I could make my own records?

[@doogie812]

Seems they shot themselves in the foot by not making it capable of playing a standard 45 RPM record. The thing is very cute. It is a pain in the butt to switch cartridges on my main turntable to play 45's. A little TT like that one only a selector switch away would make bringing out the 45s' a little more fun.

[@billkeithchannel]

Nice to see that America has someone that moans over tech.

[@databits]

Thanks, I wish the KZbin algorithims would bring me the same amount of views. This video is an exception.

[@peterripson]

I think they use the current hole size because it looks like their "records" are actually CDs, but, using CDs made with either a different plastic altogether or just a different colored CD plastic

[@danieldaniels7571]

Naw, it's to evoke the look of old 45s

[@brianrigsby7900]

0:39 wait…so you just destroy the machines after you’re finished with the video…? Or do you reassemble them off camera…?

[@databits]

I re-assemble. Looks much better sitting on my desk.

[@max_e_maxxy_]

Crazy to think that this novelty turntable has a real moving magnet cartridge while most of the Crosleys, cruisers and such, have a terrible ceramic cartridge 😅

[@databits]

Yes, this is also a mystery to me. Apparently, for the general public, ceramic is "good enough".

[@HelloKittyFanMan....]

Ha, wow, that first disc looks almost like a small CD!

[@highpath4776]

I suppose you can record to audacity and then speed up the file

[@garylynncook1560]

How much?

[@HelloKittyFanMan....]

So if you bought your Cros disc player _off_ of ebay, then which website did you buy it ON?

[@joepacheco7979]

"One small step for man,… one giant leap…"

[@ChrisKewl]

You could just mod it to run the motor faster, maybe a switch mod to go between 45 and 33.

[@tinicum54]

I take it to keg parties!!

[@teddine7366]

That's a cool little novelty. I wouldn't mind putting it up on my shelf to look at. Wasn't this player and the little records just a record store day gimmick? I think it was but not sure. I sure wouldn't buy this thing to for use but just as a cool conversation piece.

[@grantc61]

What junk. I had a portable record player as a kid that worked beautifully and actually had a decent speaker. Portable record and cassette players today are garbage.

[@awesomeferret]

I had a 60s portable record player that was made out of cardboard (no, really) and therefore I never used it once because I was afraid to ever plug it in, and it couldn't be disassembled due to the cardboard (good thing I got it for free). As with most in life, reality is nuanced.

[@w140]

as these cheap turntables have a spring for needle weight tis often not linear with the hight of the needle. it will show higher measurements if the weight is measure not on alne with actual vinyl. The higher you pull the tonarm the more spring act to add weight to the needle. You should measure it right at the hight of the record to get the real weight numbers

[@DavidMadeira29]

You make me understand why Jimi Hendrix took the underground way. Namastè.

[@CH32mix]

A brand new nugg

[@HelloKittyFanMan....]

"...Vinyl on top of plastic." Since vinyl IS plastic, then I wonder what _other_ kind of plastic they'd layer it with.

[@tomsaltner3011]

I guess, a larger center of the center is better for smaller records in terms of mechanical stability and perfect centering…

[@xaenon]

It's not that the motor is 'SUPPOSED' to be that loud; It's that it's a cheap, gimmicky toy and they don't CARE that it's that loud. It isn't intended to be a 'high fidelity' device. In 'real' record players, the motor is isolated from its mounting points with rubber grommets. That is very obviously not the case here since the are no mounts at all. Yes, the motor is configured for three-speed operation. It's the very same motor used in their other record players like the cruiser. They left it that way because it was probably cheaper than buying a single speed motor., but there is no provision to actually change speeds. No idea why your efforts at adjustting it didn't get results. Sometimes it's difficult to hit the adjusting screws.

[@dean6816]

They've done a Beatles version with 4 Beatles records.

[@stefanegger]

You can record the sound in 33 RPM into a computer and maybe figure out what is the multiplier from 33 to 45 (sorry, I am not good in math) and then you can stretch the sound file and play it as 45 RPM on the PC

[@marc6340]

Crosley is literally just junk. It's one step up (or down?) from Fingerhut. I DO remember getting records like that when I was a kid, though. Plus, whatever happened to the records they used to print on cereal boxes? I loved those!

[@thorstenbilavski6369]

What a sweet turntable. Oh my god ....

[@HelloKittyFanMan....]

The motor has several RPMs? Huh, interesting, I've been used to non-BL DC motors that could just do variable RPM based on simply varying the voltage, and that was nothing special, so this confuses me a little.

[@АндрейПотапов-о4ц]

Это же альтернати́вный прои́грыватель,тому́,на котóром в Совéтское врéмя и Грóзные гóды прои́грывали грампласти́нки,а тепéрь на Нëм вопроизвóдятся компáкт-ди́ски.Рáньше агрегáт назывáлся электрофóном,а тепéрь его мóжно назвáть лазерофóном или квантофóном(Вáш доброжелáтель Андрéй Потáпов).

[@jeffreyhickman3871]

Mini techno things like 👍 this are so interesting 🤔!! We should be living in a small world 🌎 (I mean a world of small electronics). Just came across your channel and subscribed!! Please keep these small electronics videos coming!! Your friend, Jeff!!

[@mist1206]

The "Weird Al" Yankovic 3" Beat On The Brat has this "standard" spindle size.

[@squireaudioselectionssasdi5371]

Gekken?

[@litoboy5]

Great

[@Պետյա111]

Շատ դուրս եկավ❤

[@nwmusic2010]

My guess is there is a belt that is slipping

[@nwmusic2010]

Nevermind it’s actually a direct drive turntable! Wow.

[@Volodymyr_Revunets]

​@@nwmusic2010 17:40 we have the belt.

[@nwmusic2010]

@@Volodymyr_Revunetsah! I missed that the first time around

[@HelloKittyFanMan....]

"...Or phonograph..." Both of those players are phonographs. All groove-driven audio players are phonographs (even the Tefifon, a phonographic ribbon player is, in a certain sense).

[@martinruiz6879]

Muy bueno 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@ferroud]

CD компакт-диски проигрывает? )

[@ikonix360]

Would be more authentic if the outer ring rotated.

[@imrejoni8891]

ez nem mondható újdonságnak max a méretét tekintve! Nekünk már a 80-as években volt ilyen ami akkora volt mint a hagyományos Bakelit lemezeké arról ment a video diszkó. Gyerekként nem is értettük hogy játszik le egy tű egy fémnek ma már tudjuk cd vagy dvd anyagú lemezt

[@beep1484]

I remember record gum

[@FlamingRobzilla]

The micro USB standard wasn't introduced until 2007, so what makes this particular turntable 60's technology?

[@tiempoveganoprovida2247]

No entiendo quien va a comprar eso...

[@WillKlaver]

.. i have never seen one of these .. 🎼🎸⏺️

[@RaymondWard]

Cool

[@rustymixer2886]

9:48 austin powers

[@RichGustafson-zw2ip]

Play them on your home Stereo Turntable they sound better I did that with 1969 Doors Pocet disc and 2023 Doors RSD 3 inch as long as your turntable does not have auto pickup .

[@perfectstrangers7673]

😊 Industrial waste, child's play at most!

[@andrea-sp2xm]

potrebbero anche risparmiare tempo e denaro che costruire questi simil giradischi giocattolo denaro buttato come i giradischi di ultima generazione gia' amplificati simil valigetta che andava negli anni 50- 60 che quelli se non altro erano realmente funzionanti e con valvole

[@perthvinylrecording3721]

Hi I can fit 10mins 33rpm perside on a 3inch.. 48mins on a 12inch..lots of fun

[@HelloKittyFanMan....]

Now let's hear the 45 Hip Pocket just on the high end of the silver player _without_ the editing.

[@lionheartroar3104]

why?

[@raimundposset1932]

Wow des hob ich noch nie gesehen ,.