turntable

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As I mentioned before i have owned several turntables, and as simple as it seems, plastic ANYTHING on a turntable is almost always bad.

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  1. noun The circular horizontal rotating platform of a phonograph on which the record is placed.
  2. noun A phonograph exclusive of amplifying circuitry and speakers.
  3. noun A circular horizontal rotating platform equipped with a railway track, used for turning locomotives, as in a roundhouse.
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  • That's all I need back, the turntable was mine, but I'll buy that back too if you want. —  EQMM,May2007
  • As to this track and turntable, all of which was frozen with rust, there was both good news and bad news. —  Kahawa
  • Beyond the turntable, the track continued another twenty feet, almost to the dropoff; a sudden unexpected cliff, that was, with forest growth right to the edge and a nearly hundred-foot drop down into Thruston Bay, whose boulder-strewn shoreline looked in the rain like something from a gothic novel. —  Kahawa
  • One of the potential problems, Isaac remembered, had been that the turntable was rusted into place at an unusable angle. —  Kahawa
  • Beyond the turntable, the old bumper had been removed and was lying unceremoniously in the shrubbery to one side of the track. —  Kahawa
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