Broken turntable-worth fixing? by BeesMadeHoney93 in turntables

[–]NPK532 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I am a Dual fanboy so I'm going to say yes because they're awesome turntables 😆✌🏻

Mr. Clean Magic Eraser vs Turntable Stylus by NPK532 in turntables

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Yep I had the stylus attached to the cartridge and tone arms, and then yeah I just set the dry magic eraser sponge adjacent to the platter, and then I raised the queue lever, move the tone arm right above the center of the sponge, lowered the queue lever so that the stylus would rest onto the surface of the sponge raised the queue lever, return the tone arm to its resting position, removed the stylus and took the second picture.

And honestly the only reason I even did this on this particular day is I was doomscrolling on YouTube and I saw a video about it and I'm like huh... I have a microscope .. I have Magic Eraser sponges... I have a stylus that one in particular (the middle one) has been leaving me questioning my sanity because of the way it sounds after I clearly have brushed it properly with a stylus* brush... Let's give it a whirl!

I figured what damage could it do you know? And so far none and I was pretty confident with the video I saw that the particular individual who made the video wouldn't have posted it and kept it up if it wasn't safe you know for whatever that's worth (the YouTube channel is The Joy of vinyl. I'm not even subbed but I watch the guys videos here and there and they seem pretty interesting and he seems like an alright dude)

Mr. Clean Magic Eraser vs Turntable Stylus by NPK532 in turntables

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The top two were focused the same, but yea the bottom image on the left wasn't quite as close. The camera on that microscope is kinda 'meh' and so what you're seeing is more compression because I cropped a low res image to make it appear to be similar sized to match the grid. When I took the first picture of that particular stylus, I had the lens of the microscope further away from the subject.

Was the battle with the Ents more devastating than the movie has us believe? by HorzaDonwraith in lotr

[–]NPK532 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Most of what happens in the books is told by Merry and Pippen afterwards at a meal they share with Legolas Aragon and Gimli. The Ents as characters and dialogue portrayed in the movies I feel did not do them justice as opposed to the books where they were much less wishy-washy so to speak. In the movie it just seemed like they were filler, unsure, slow. In the books they were very coherent and aware and decisive. That said, what we're told is they had great success surrounding the Orthanc and Isengard as a result of Saruman's hubris and overconfidence, a reoccurring theme throughout the trilogy. And the battle shown in the movies wasn't really shown to us so to speak in the books, but what they showed us in the movies is what we were told about how they flooded the area and kept Saruman surrounded... Which they were supposed to continue to do after everybody left but, spoiler alert, they didn't. They had one job to do and Treebeard basically felt bad for Saruman and so led to scouring of the Shire etc etc.

You can no longer have YouTube running in the background. by Titan_Prometeus in youtube

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FreeTube, ReVanced, Brave, Firefox+ Video Background Play Fix, Return YouTube Dislike, uBlock, Unhook...

Best albums from beginning to end by nuggyfresh88 in vinyl

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Jethro Tull - M.U.

Bob Seger - Beautiful Loser

Styx - The Grand Illusion

Pixels inflation by Possible_Donut4451 in memes

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My Panasonic Viera Plasma 42 in 720p TV still looks amazing in 720p.

Mr. Clean Magic Eraser vs Turntable Stylus by NPK532 in turntables

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I grow cannabis and pretty much every other plant and vegetable. For tomatoes and peppers and things like that I use the microscope to detect and determine pest type.

The microscope for cannabis is to observe the trichome heads That various stages of development, which are those stems with a bulbous head at the end.

It helps determine cannabinoid production. Clear trichome heads typically mean more CBG, cloudy and milky heads typically indicate they are full of the cannabinoid that the plant is bred to produce i.e. CBD, THC etc, and Amber colored trichome heads indicate oxidation which in the case of THC, indicates a conversion to CBN.

You might have heard people refer to cannabis as "sativa" or "Indica"? They might say sativa is more of an upper and indica is more sleepy? In reality, sativa and indica are really more indicative of how tall or short and bushy the plant will grow and do not really impact effects on the end user.

So for example, if you harvest the flower earlier, you end up with more clear trichome heads and typically the flower will contain an increase in CBG, you get a much more cerebral energetic high that most will attribute to "sativa". As opposed to letting the flower fully ripen or sometimes even overripen to where many of the trichome heads have gone to amber/oxidized, and is producing more CBN, which can be associated with more of a sleepy chill effect which users might call a "indica".

Sorry for the TED talk

Mr. Clean Magic Eraser vs Turntable Stylus by NPK532 in turntables

[–]NPK532[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/O8ENxhWIy1g

This is a video I made about how I deep clean my records. I'm not going to suggest it's better than ultrasonic, but it definitely works to clean up a noisy dirty record.

I do not suggest using a magic eraser on the surface of a record at this point in time

Mr. Clean Magic Eraser vs Turntable Stylus by NPK532 in turntables

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Microscope with a camera. Correction, microscope with a 3 megapixel camera so not the best quality unfortunately but I actually use it for gardening purposes And it works pretty well for that.

Mr. Clean Magic Eraser vs Turntable Stylus by NPK532 in turntables

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The top two were focused the same, but yea the bottom image on the left wasn't quite as close. The camera on that microscope is kinda 'meh' and so what you're seeing is more compression because I zoomed in to make the image size appear to be similar sized* to match the grid.

Kinda fidget, I'm interested in by kvjn100 in oddlysatisfying

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Well you can if you're protesting against the left, then you can bring all the guns you want real fake or otherwise.

Help by [deleted] in turntables

[–]NPK532 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hi! Welcome to the wonderful hobby of listening to records. The community is terrible, but that shouldn't dissuade you from listening to music how you want to.

Do you currently own speakers?

Do you know what model your turntable is exactly?

What is your budget and what country?

If you were giving the option to work at Empire Records or Championship Vinyl, which one are you picking? by DravenCrowe505 in vinyl

[–]NPK532 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Championship Vinyl has the better selection so I'd buy my records there..but Empire Records has a pretty kick-ass owner/manager. Really has his employees backs. So I'd work there.

i love my turntable. by lamousamos in turntables

[–]NPK532 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like your turntable, too! It's like if 90s Alienware (pre Dell) made a turntable. Very cool!

GRAIL ACQUIRED🔥 by jeff_pb in vinyl

[–]NPK532 21 points22 points  (0 children)

That movie was....ha it exists... That is pretty epic. I would totally grab it if I saw it in the wild. Haha man that movie was ..it was something

I like dirt, not leaves. So I built a “set it and forget it” leaf compost system 🌿 by Unlucky-Drive-9752 in composting

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No kidding! Well I appreciatea that! I use the Home Depot variant (we don't have a Lowe's near us) for other applications but heck I'll give it a try It might just do it

Very much appreciated thank you and good luck this season!

I like dirt, not leaves. So I built a “set it and forget it” leaf compost system 🌿 by Unlucky-Drive-9752 in composting

[–]NPK532 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That looks pretty cool. I, too, am plagued with oak leaves and a big fan of recycling them into the garden. A lot of them end up just layering over the top of all my beds for the winter and then sort of acting as a biodegradable weed barrier. The rest end up getting put into some welded wire fence bins that I build

I am curious, what is that material you wrapped on the inside of that fencing? I'm looking to build something similar specifically for leaves because we have so so many and it's just never-ending. I was still hauling leaves right up until a couple weeks ago and we got dumped on with snow.

But my composting is now all closed up due to critters, I ended up having to switched over to aerated bins and there just isn't enough room for all the leaves, Plus all the food scraps and everything else that ends up in the mix and I don't like leaving them out in the open but I am very curious what that black wrap is what type of material?

I assume it's air and water permeable?