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above represents just a few of the 45 RPM models I have:
*A number of companies made home audio equipment that incorporated a 45 RPM player under their brand name. To my knowledge RCA is the only US company that made these 45 RPM machines. Companies that incorporated the '45 players under their brand must have had to purchase them from RCA?
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Below is my
collection of these
*unique players and changers.
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Arvin 6091 Record player/changer < click for more detail |
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RCA 6BY4A Radio-Record player AC Battery < click for more detail
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RCA 6-EY-15 "Ding-Dong School" Record player/changer < click for more detail
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RCA 6-JM-2A "Slide-O-Matic" Record player attachment < click for more detail
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RCA 7EY2 Record player/change < click for more detail
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RCA 8EY3 Record player/changer < click for more detail
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RCA 6EY3A Record player/changer < click for more detai
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RCA 45J Record player/changer < click for more detail
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RCA 45J2 Record player/changer < click for more detail
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RCA 45J3 Record player/changer < click for more detail
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RCA Special Stereo Record player attachment < click for more detail
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Crescent Record player/changer < click for more detail
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Duette Radio-record player/changer |
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<< manuals, labels, stickers and paper item available for many of the 45 RPM & other models. |
NOTICE
What you should
know about the
45 RPM player's before purchasing
These are wonderful little
instruments and fun to have and use especially if you have a
collection of 45 RPM records but be aware. They are not the most
reliable piece of audio gear ever made, in fact just the
opposite. They were low priced, cheaply made. and required more
than the normal maintenance even from the get-go. I speak
as one who serviced these when the were relatively new and very
popular in the mid 1950s. Then as well as now
require periodic and often maintenance. More often if abused.
The mechanical adjustments can get off desired settings with
rough handling that many teenagers are well known for. These
critical adjustments that affect the cycling of the changer,
reject, lift, record drop and set down are critical and can be
knocked off their settings with improper handling. Also the
original cartridge is a well known sore spot as well as the
rubber drive wheels.
So if you own one, to keep it healthy, play it often
In the late 1940s RCA revolutionized the home record industry with the introduction of the 45 RPM player and the seven inch, large hole 45 RPM players and records. These players came to be quite popular, especially with teenagers. They were low priced and offered in a variety of cabinet styles, colors and features from a simple attachment that had to be connected to an amplifier or radio equipped with an RCA audio Pin-Plug jack. Other companies also offered instruments with a '45 player, all were the RCA mecanisum.
So popular were they that other companies incorporated the RCA mechanism in their models or featured in them in their Radio/Phono and even TV combinations.
Three mechanisms were used in the 45 RPM changers; RP-168, RP-190 & RP-193. '168 was the first, '193 the second and the the '190 series the most common and popular. Don't know why the '193 was earlier than the '190 but as far as I know the '193 mechanism was used in only one model; the 45-J3. The '168 mechanism had the record changing cycling as part of the turn-table's underside casting. The '190 series incorporated a rubber coated cycling cam to drive the record changing cycle while the '193 had a separate large gear driven cycling cam.
There's also a fourth mechanism; the RP-199, used only in the two; "Slide-O-Matic" models; the; 6-JM-2 and the 6-XY-5B.
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