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Originally Posted by wa2ise
Oh, there was cheap crap sold back in olden days, but you rarely see any of it because 99.9% of it has been tossed long ago. I did find, when we needed to sell my grandmother's house, a really cheapo photo enlarger for a home dark room. Used corrugated cardboard for positioning lenses. Probably sat in the attic, where we found it, forgotten for about 40 years.
The Japanese made really crappy AA5 radios back in the 50's, before they mastered quality manufacturing. You rarely see any of them today.
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Another oldtime POS japanese product were those junky portable rim drive tape recorders, they were useless even for speech recording right out of their boxes, and usually failed real quick due to crappy capacitors/motors/mechanical parts and so on...
Yet loads of them are still around, and they're often popping up on Ebay...
Some vintage stuff was also quite unsafe, flame retardant materials weren't used back then, many sets were housed in flammable wood cabinets, AA5 radios and other hot chassis designs often had hot parts easily accessible to the user.
The WORST vintage electric chair of all times would have to be the Italian-made Geloso G255 hot chassis tape recorder from the mid 50s, this thing was insanely dangerous, the microphone socket's ground was tied directly to the hot chassis, you had to use the supplied isolated microphone but it was made of crappy brittle plastic that broke easily and then you got exposed hot parts, also some people were reportedly electrocuted to death when they plugged a regular metal cased microphone into one of these things...