Okay, okay, you did good, but what is this?

[CreekDog]

and since this red thingy was easier to use than the yellow thingy below, why on earth did anyone use the yellow one?

what was the advantage?

[Curmudgeoness]

1. Well, jeez, I never had a red thingie. This is new to me. nt

[CreekDog]

3. it was easier, but there was a distinct advantage of the yellow kind

but i can't give it away and i'll doubt you find it on wikipedia! :P

[Phentex]

2. The yellow one was groovy!

:hippie:

[Moondog]

4. I have no clue what the red thingy is. Never saw one before. n/t

[Curmudgeoness]

5. I have a feeling yellow thingie was easier to put in and out. nt

[CreekDog]

6. harder actually

:rofl:

but it stayed in, okay that was your first hint though it is not the answer to the original question. :dilemma:

[qnr]

25. not really that hard (but granted, 'harder'), especially if you weren't adverse to placing

the 45 on a table and just pushing it in.

[mockmonkey]

7. Maybe?

So you could play a stack of them on the turntable, if you didn't have the auto-changer adapter for 45's just the thin LP spindle.

[hippywife]

16. Bingo! We have a correct answer!

The first one fits the turntable and only allows you to play one record at a time. The other fit inside the hole on the record and one of them inserted in each record allowed stacks to be mounted atop the spindle and played one after the other automatically.

:hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

17. Good answer, geezer.

j/k... I know this answer from experience too.

[CreekDog]

20. Hot dog!

We have a weiner!

[GoCubsGo]

8. The yellow one was probably cheaper to make

The red one is solid plastic. The yellow one is thinner and has open spaces, which means it used less plastic.

[ThomCat]

9. The yellow one, because of its shape

pushed back slightly against the edges of the record, holding it and making it fit more firmly so it stayed put. It wouldn't lose its grip or fall out.

The red disk would spin independently inside the record, so the record wouldn't play.

[LaurenG]

10. My red thing was black and it came with the turn table

If you lost the red/black thingy then you had to buy a little packet of the yellow thingy's so the 45 would play properly.

[MorningGlow]

11. I had both, but let's face it

the yellow one was way more stylin'. ;)

[GReedDiamond]

12. The red one sits on top of the turntable, over the spindle,..

...and you can stack a few records on top of each other, while the yellow one fits inside the big hole of an individual 45, so you need one yellow one for each record you want to play, or you gotta remove and place it into each 45 every time you play a different record.

[GReedDiamond]

13. Deleted, duplicate post.

[abq e streeter]

14. Got one of those too

but have no idea how to use an I pod etc. (I think I got old while I wasn't paying attention)

[BeachBaby]

15. CreekPuppy.....you have me waxing nostalgic over here.

THANK YOU. I need to get away from the present for awhile. :hug:

[CreekDog]

21. .

:hug:

you know what started this? some 80's nostalgia and some wicked bass playing by that guy in Level 42.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt7mtdLha-c&playnext=1&videos=FiZY6-qHViE

[Kali]

18. I seem to recall

an adapter that was about the size of a toilet paper tube that allowed stacks to play, too. Had the little 7-shaped thingy that sort of looked like the release on an umbrella...

[Kat45]

22. Yeah, I had one of those.

Also had some like the little yellow one.

[Seneca]

19. The yellow one made a cool mini-frisbee

Those things spun much better off of the turntable than on it.

[Maine-ah]

23. I had the yellow thing

[qnr]

24. The yellow ones were also great for when you were stressed and needed something

flexible yet cheap to 'worry.'

[HopeHoops]

26. Advantage: no extra work. You put it in a 45 and then just treated it like a 33.

With the adapter, you had to line it up and they sucked when used for multiple record drop-play. We had a player with an adapter that was like 3" tall (as was the LP post). That one worked fine for drop-play.

[RandomThoughts]

27. Its a company logo also, forget which one, often symbolized in a bad way.

I don't follow or respect that interp though.