I love these old record changers. Its amazing how much mechanics are involved just to change or flip a record

the fact it's still going strong all these years is testament to how well built it is. not like these plastic things today

A world without Plastic. A true work of art. Great job on the video.

Absolutely wonderful. . A nice slow record-delivery glide & I love that little arm that comes across just to push the record back into place in the stack. A brilliant piece of engineering..

I just had to run the prices (across the 2:55 mark) through an inflation calculator. For example, the Model 7's asking $330 price is roughly equivalent to almost $5,000 today! Even with the simplified mechanism, the Capehart was hardly a popular choice for music reproduction, and with the Great Depression kicking in, it definitely became a sales failure. One can just imagine what amounts of engineering and craftsmanship went into each of these, and it's great to see some of these machines withstand the test of time. Thanks!

MERCURY Switch? Man this things a beast!

Oh! What a genius of a man inventing this beautiful piece of musical equipment

I think people who invent things like this that actually work - are pure genius........I want one.

Beautiful machine and great video! Thanks for showing us how this 30s technology worked.

A work of art! So many components working together perfectly.

Beautiful! The way it flips the record over and plays the next one looks so simple but it is a masterpiece of engineering for sure!

Many husbands were impressed with the sound and the wives were impressed with the beautiful cabinetry. Beautiful machine, beautiful videograpy. Once again, my congratulations.

And yet, very gentle!

beautifully made informitive video that needs no voiceovers . the shots of the mechanism are fascinating , the audio is brilliant, cant get the tunes out of my head, im going to find and download the tunes on this and your video on the rca victor machine to play in my car :) your videos should have millions of hits

I do Marine repair and I am a cert Auto Tech the mechanics of this went way over my head . My jaw literly dropped watching the whole video I was shocked astonished and they did it the design my hand some draftsman drew this all with out a computer WOW !

Started off slow..Was afraid it was going to be another KZfaq Slide Show. Then it got in gear (figuratively & literally) and turned into one masterpiece of a video. Many thanks, it's stunning.

Just amazing technology! From 1930! Genius.

How awesome ! How beautiful !! Being a depression-era phonograph, couldn't have sold too many of these !! Probably didn't make alot of them, either. Bet'cha this was a VERY expensive piece of machinery, back in the day. Thank you for sharing your tutorial, and getting to watch this in action !!!!

Incredible: compared to other, later record changers, it looks quite easy to operate ! 1930...

Just Beautiful!!! Thank you for sharing!

I didn’t know these existed until yesterday and I am just in awe of them, all the many beautiful designs, I would love to own one, I have so many records that need to be played!

What a fabulous machine a joy to see and hear.

Unbelievable, amazing and stupendous!!!!

1930 wow.. wow.. fantastic 👍👏

Beautiful engineering

Bob, nice video, never knew you had gotten this Capehart. I just searched your screen name and found this along with several other interesting videos! Nice Job!

Simply...BEAUTIFUL!!!

So cool. Thanks for the good video and captions.

An engineering masterpiece.

That is very beautiful record player cabinet im surprised it's in Good shape very nice item Also a lot of stuff was metal and wood and brass around that time

Another great one! - Very good job! - thanks for posting.

fantastic !!!!!!! thanks for this film !!!!!!!! collector from Belgium !!

Brilliantly made!

Overwhelmingly a phonograph of great beauty and brains !! Ahead of it's time for 1930 !! This must have cost, brand new, MORE than a brand new car !!

Wow! How nice, really beautiful, you are lucky owner this Masterpiece. Thanks for video. :)

very well presented!!!

Yup..this one's definitely awesome, too..and very gentle with the records. :)

Awesome, as usual!

Plays wonderful.

Real neat.

This is a great jukebox

Very cool, seems a more gentle changer mechanism

lovely.

Being a DJ in 1930 was still a relatively new thing. Not all of these were bought by radio stations I'm sure but it made their job easier rather than handling records all the time and risking breakage.

It plays one sides of the stack and the other sides after, so your compilation could be created the way, that it doesn't have a boring second part.

Beautiful piece of USA made goodness

Magnifique appareil, dommage qu'i y manque un sérieux entretien

A lot of people believe the erroneous rumor that the 33 1/3 debuted in 1948. That's not true. Another thing that's essential about your 1931 RCA and 1930 Capehart units is that they can play the 33 1/3's which were new tech at the time. A lot of people had 78rpm only players then. Your Capehart is a component type which was more like the PRO audio phonographs of that time. Rather than having its own onboard amplifier, it connects to a separate amplifier... Which is more high end. I remember learning that stereo recievers evolved from radios in the 1930's that came with an "audio in" aux input that a phonograph or other audio device could be connected to for the sake of utilizing the radio's amplifier. This was the infancy of what would eventually turn out to be a "stereo receiver." You own some serious audiophile units from the golden age of high end audio.

this is ray noble and his orchestra with the freshmen on vocals [not al bowly] victor no 25070A

In 2022 this would have been replaced with a microprocessor containing 2 billion transistors that cost 51 cents. And it would end up in a landfill after a couple of years and replaced with one containing 4 billion transistors controlled by Microsoft Windows that would have already been declared obsolete. Those were the good old days.

The only time I’ve seen a mercury switch in use is in those old thermostats. Quite interesting. I’m amazed at how perfectly aligned everything is. Even if it was off by a second there’d be an issue. There had to be several people doing the analysis on the creation of this. The machine still works, but the brains that gave life to the machine are all gone which makes it creepy but mystifying.

Fascinating. Looks like it can only deal with one size record, probably 10". Or perhaps other sizes can be played manually?

Does the Bodine turntable motor have brushes?

What triggers the automatic trip when the tone-arm is in the lead-out? These old changers seem to circle the locked groove a few times before the cycle starts, which makes me think it's not positional, but something about the back-and-forth movement of the tonearm. But I can't visualize how that would work.

Sweet

Thank you for the post. I Absolutely love watching old changers playing. Is that a horseshoe magnetic pickup? How often does it need to be magnetized? Have a great day.

The long gone days of American-Made home entertainment devices.

Does this use regular steel needles or a special type of needle?

The mechanisms of early record changer are extremely complex and very expensive until somebody had an ingenious idea by dropping one record on top of the other rather than literally changed them.

I want to buy this

Does this also require the Victor lead out groove?

do you know what the title of the first record is ? thanks.

I think this is awesome! I'm wondering about the needle...Some vintage audiophiles claim that the needle should be switched out after ever play. This "Amperion" seems to dispel this idea. Can anyone confirm, please? (Thanks GracevillMN for this fascinating upload!)

Scratching the records included?

It's one of the most great mechanic design, GOD, what kind of brains are they? but, the only thing that I realized is that record player can work on the sizes 10 and 12 only and it doesn't work on the records of seven inches size.

can this play 12 inch records

When a album of shellac records follows the order, that side one has side eight on the back, side two side seven, side three side six and side four side five, this unit cannot play the records in the suggested order.

Were did you get this from

Isso é da época em que os homens faziam invenções extraordinárias. E que os homens de hoje simplesmente descartaram e trocaram por porcarias de pouca duração.

This is a very nice record player the thing that I would be worried about is if that mercury switch the bottle was to bust because mercury is very dangerous!!!!

Name of the first song playing here?

alot of victor label titles there.

Remarkable machine! Today they just can not make this anymore. People were more smart back then. Today they are all lazy.