Vinyl Record Spindle Hole Size

Vinyl records repair.

Vinyl record spindle hole size. For lps 33rpm 12 it s 7 3 mms give or take or 9 32 for eps 45rpm 7 it s 37mm or 1 46 some get to 38 5mms or 1 5. Sizes of records in the united states and the uk are generally measured in inches e g. Lp spindle hole corrector tool for 33rpm records corrects undersized lp record spindle holes. Scott ferguson 934 views.

Search for a pencil whose circumference is the same size as the spindle and just move it up and down a couple of times until the lp will go on a little easier than before. 7 inch records which are generally 45 rpm records. Heart stairway to heaven led zeppelin. The diameter is 0 286.

You don t want it to slip on without any tension tension is good i think my humble opinion. The desirable tip radius of the reproducing stylus for stereophonic disc records is 0 5 mils. It doesn t take much at all for it to be big enough to fit then. Don t bother with returning it.

Instead of taking a drill to it you can just get a pair of scissors and lightly spin one blade inside the spindle hole on both sides. The reproducing stylus motion shall be tangent to or lie in a plane which passes through the record center and which is inclined at a nominal angle of 15 degrees clockwise to a normal to the record at the stylus tip as viewed from the record c. Which by the way does not correspond to any standard size drill in english or metric units but that s what it is. Been listening to.

I have this problem pretty often since thorens turntables have slightly bigger spindle holes than most tables. If there is an explanation for this i haven t seen it. If you haven t run into an lp with an undersized center hole you will and it of course will be when you are entertaining others and you will end up flexing your lp dramatically to try to get it back off of that spindle. How to fix a small center spindle hole on a record duration.

Many 7 singles pressed outside the us come with the smaller spindle hole size and are occasionally pressed with notches to allow the center part to be punched out for playing on larger spindles.