[78-L] Hit of The Weeks,was: Noise

[Taylor Bowie]

RE: Stapling HOWs...ouch!  I have found a very easy way to play 'em,  which 
is to have handy a plastic clamping clothes pin and clamp it to the 
spindle...that will keep the record flat if the center hole has gotten too 
loose to keep the record flat.

I also keep a couple of plastic doo-hickies (or maybe they are deelie-bobs) 
near the turntable to set on the head of the tone arm if I need a tiny bit 
more weight...works on all the HOWs I have,  and I have most of them from 
1930-32 (not in such good shape on the earliest issues).

Hope that helps.

Taylor B





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "buster" <busterdog at mac.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 6:13 PM
Subject: [78-L] using threads, and a question about Hit of The Weeks,was: 
Noise


>a number of email clients, the Mac's "Mail" application included, have
> the capability to organize by email "thread."  using this feature, one
> can organize a whole string of related emails into a single nested
> line item.  it's been so nice to be able to see all the recent chaff
> organized in such a way, and be able to dump it so quickly and easily.
>
> last time i was on here, in the early 90s, it got the same way every
> so often (as do ALL newsgroups)...and i vaguely remember one
> especially nasty and long-lived battle (the nauck and his god and
> texas were at the center of that one) was the reason i left then.  but
> this time i have threads to help me through it, so it'll be easier to
> stay.
>
> here's a few helpful pointers for the folks who want to keep going at
> it but need to move on to the next level:
>
> http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Flame_wars
>
> (note especially the extremely useful and effective "Fifty Zwarg Post.")
>
> anybody remember that article from a lot of years ago in the MAPS
> journal, categorizing the many types of collectors?  we all know that
> as a group we often tend to be cranky and opinionated and, uh, "fussy"
> - to varying degrees - and to avoid the cr at p that must therefore come
> with that, we must keep on the single topic that brings us together in
> the first place.  so...
>
> anybody have a good recommendation on how to play Hit of The Weeks (or
> is it Hits of the Week?) safely and reliably?  my best fix so far is
> to lay them on top of a junk diamond disc on the platter, then clamp a
> binder clip to the spindle to tightly hold down the center of the
> HOTW.  some folks just staple two of them back to back, but that seems
> a little destructive.  ideas?
>
> On Jan 24, 2009, at 12:08 PM, David Lewis wrote:
>
>>
>> Gott in himmel! Seems to me like there is an awful lot of NOISE on
>> 78-L of late; getting so it's hard to find the signal. Can we get
>> back to talking 'bout 78s -- you know, they're round and packed with
>> sound....Uncle Dave Lewis uncledavelewis at hotmail.com
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> -- Buster
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