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Old 02-15-2018, 09:05 AM
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People to NOT sell your vintage TV to!!

I don't understand this Craigslist ad. Is this an idiot to NOT sell your antique TV to??? He uses very poor English and is extremely vague as to what his motives are. Is this fish tank city? Or is this the next step to city dump?? On top of all this he calls himself a "TV Guy".

What I really don't understand is the "FIRE" part. Haven't any of you seen the YouTube videos of them setting fire to a working TV? Or submerging them while working?

https://knoxville.craigslist.org/wan...489902157.html
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Old 02-15-2018, 09:14 AM
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Strikes me as another hobbyist.
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Old 02-15-2018, 09:53 AM
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Old 02-15-2018, 10:17 AM
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At face value, he does say he repairs electronics, and has a goal of getting them to work.

I'm pretty sure I've seen that photo before -- but neither I nor Google Image remembers where...
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Old 02-15-2018, 10:24 AM
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It just sounds like he's one of us, Julian. Just another radio/TV hobbyist looking for cheap TVs of interest to him.

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Old 02-15-2018, 10:51 AM
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Strikes me as another hobbyist.
Agreed , looking at the sets in his picture , and more importantly the drawers of parts that can be seen to the left of the picture I'd say he's a hobbyist also .

Besides , don't the fishtankers usually murder console sets ? How many fish are gonna fit in those little TVs in his picture ?
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Old 02-15-2018, 04:33 PM
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Yep that ad seems innocent enough to be one of us.
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Old 02-15-2018, 04:55 PM
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I don't understand the "FIRE" part.
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Old 02-15-2018, 05:12 PM
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Maybe someone should tell him about Videokarma... It looks to me as he is looking to try his hand at restoring older TV sets.
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Old 02-15-2018, 06:23 PM
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I think the "fire" part was just his way of saying "Can I actually fix one of these things without burning it up?"
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Old 02-15-2018, 06:33 PM
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I believe he's referring to a stigma among the general public that old TVs are prone to spontaneously bursting into flames.
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Old 02-15-2018, 10:00 PM
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They're probably just a modern electronics person looking to get into older electronics.
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Old 02-16-2018, 08:32 AM
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I don't understand the "FIRE" part.

Yes it is a southern literary concept kinda like that song "You can set my truck on fire, you can roll it down a hill, but i still wouldn't trade it for a coup deville!" Remember all electrical circuits must be tuned for minimum smoke and fire! lol. I am a southerner and i approve this message.

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Old 02-16-2018, 10:27 AM
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Well I'm a northerner , and up here we've always believed TVs run on magic smoke , cause once you let the magic smoke out , it stops showing the pretty pictures ......
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Old 02-16-2018, 11:26 AM
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There are a number of them on YT, just type on, or copy the

" can this 1970s tv actually not catch on fire and work " from his ad.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlBpvS7AS6g

I guess you found a high level semi-functioning idiot.


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