Ten Points if you can tell me what this is:

[Taverner]

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Jukebox?

[Taverner]

7. Close, but no cigar

The company that made these also made jukeboxes, however

[In_The_Wind]

2. just a guess . . . it was used for making 45 rpm records.

[BainsBane]

5. It looks like a 78 to me

[In_The_Wind]

12. D'oh.

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nap time.

[Taverner]

8. Nope

[Sekhmets Daughter]

13. It's a 45 rpm

the 78s were larger and the 'spindle' for lack of a better word, was about the size of a pencil

[talkingmime]

20. 78s were about the size of LPs. Those have to be 45s.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

24. Exactly

and took the smaller spindle as well. So glad I'm not losing my memory...

[winter is coming]

25. 78s were smaller and thicker than 33s. It's a stack of 45s. n/t

[HarveyDarkey]

3. You gave it away in a prior post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018325796

[Taverner]

9. Yeah, I know...

pretty easy 10 pts

[csziggy]

4. I was going to guess record changer but then I cheated

It still is sort of a record changer, but much neater.
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For those who want to cheat - Wikipedia page for the real thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeburg_1000

[BainsBane]

6. Something for 78s

I'm not sure if it's a record player or something else.

[Taverner]

10. Actually 16 2/3 rpm....

[BainsBane]

11. Oh, I never heard of those

[talkingmime]

21. That's more in the wax cylinder rotational speed range. Vinyl didn't come in that format.

[Taverner]

26. The ones I loaded were vinyl

And a very HEAVY vinyl

What was funny was that you were supposed to change out your disks every so many months, but these hadn't been changed out since the 60s!

[talkingmime]

29. Weird. I'd never heard of that speed. All the players I remember had two speeds, except the victrola

- it only played 78s. I bet it would be funny to put them on at double speed!!!

[didact]

14. Old iPod?

eom

[Taverner]

15. Seeburg 1000 - - -the world standard in piped music (aka Muzak) for the 50s-80s

Basically they played record after record on auto load, and they were really slow so they could hold more music

[Grantuspeace]

18. I think they used the weird RPM speed to stop people from bringing their own music from home.

Along with the added bonus of longer play.

[OriginalGeek]

22. For a while when I was a teen

I worked at a pizza joint that had a jukebox that played 45s. We somehow gained access to the record part and often replaced the crappy pop songs with Led Zep and Sabbath and Iron Maiden and Judas Priest and others. We had quite a few actually. Wish I still had them.

Oh, we often didn't change the labels. It was more of an adventure that way.

[struggle4progress]

16. looks like a phonograph with a stack of 45rpm to me

when the needle starts bouncing near the spindle, the arm kicks back, maybe the brushes clean the needle, then next record drops and plays

hmm. no obvious volume control, so i suppose there's a separate amp. semi-pro equipment for radio or party dj perhaps? it doesn't seem to be a high grade turntable for a hi-fi enthusiast consumer: that would have better case and more controls, would be directed more at 33rpm and might have a fine-tune-the-speed control

[Downwinder]

17. I think I have some platters that would work on that.

[talkingmime]

19. Easy. It's a stacker for a rack of 45s. It's a little crude, but it looks like it would work.

Edit: I've got a bunch of those weird yellow plastic inserts to use with 45s on a regular turntable, but I remember when I was a kid that we had one with a pop-up 45 ring and another where you put the ring on the spindle. Yes, I still use vinyl.

[kudzu22]

23. Is it a water heater?

A sno-cone maker? No, it's an espresso machine.

[Major Nikon]

27. Looks like a rusty piece of shit

[RILib]

28. the world's ugliest 45 rpm record player

I still have two turn tables. In a fit of idiocy, I discarded my 45s when I moved across country. I was so tired of sorting through and packing up thirty years of stuff that I went crazy at the end and was just throwing stuff out.