Very bad news for any collector
 

Well folks, Here's some very bad news for me. Several weeks ago I put an ad in the classified section here to thin out a few of my roundie color sets and those sets were completely destroyed. Last Saturday night (April 11) my main warehouse caught fire and the main building is a total loss. I lost about 11 color sets to include a RCA TM21 color monitor, 1948 SABA projection set with wired remote, Beautiful blonde CTC4, TK14 camera, TK44's, TK45's and about 8 complete TK47 chains and a perfect DuMont CCU to name just a few items. Most of my military radio collection is lost among thousands of other items of antique computers, pinball machines, jukebox, parts and thousands more. I plan to rebuild and house items from my other warehouses. Yes I have insurance but it is never enough.
Yes, I am still sick but will try to recover. It was all over the news here but here is one of several on the internet:

http://www.fireengineering.com/artic...urke-fire.html

UPDATE: A fire inspector let me in the office part and recovered a few items to include 3 each NOS military gensets. (PE162's for the ANG 9 radio systems from 1952) The mil wraps on them was burned off and the canvas covers was burned but the gensets survived quite well, need cleaning and some minor OD green repainted. I also found other valuable items (ruined) that I didn't know was in there and the TM21 RCA monitor was a 1957 model (21 inch-NOT the TM10 which is a 15 inch. (My 15 inch TM10 was in another building) It was totally destroyed as the fire dept sent in a skid steer loader and moved out a lot of debris which was done after I left at around 1:00 in the morning and it destroyed everything it moved out to include a "Funhouse" pinball machine that had a lot of salvage in it. I lost 8 nice pinball machines and much more was lost forever.

Hi
I am sorry to hear about your loss and all that equipment you collected over the years.
Was there any insurance to help cover your loss? I wish you the best in rebuilding your collection.
Mike

Sorry to hear about it..... Hope you are fortunate to find a good number
of your favorite items again.......

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Damn, Julian, HATE to hear of this... Sure do wish I could help...If I can, please don't hesitate to let me know !

Oh, my! Sorry to hear this, Julian.

Sorry to hear about your fire. Did they figure out what caused it?

Yikes! What a terrible thing to have happen to you....I'd probably be in shock for a month after having something like that happen to me.

Sounds like some good stuff was lost....I wonder if any parts might still be salvageable?

Ouch! Sorry about your loss....... :tears:

Gosh, what a loss. It's good that you had insurance, but money doesn't fully compensate the loss of hard-to-find items.

I was wondering the same thing. Depends on the type of damage, I suppose, but for instance I have an RCA TM-10 monitor in need of a cabinet. Even a fire-scorched cabinet might be usable after stripping & painting . . . .

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

And if the 15GP was not heated to melting, or heated and cooled too fast, or smashed it could still be good.

Is this a "loss" in that the building was burned to the ground, or "loss" in that you aren't allowed in to salvage anything for insurance/safety reasons? I find the latter ridiculous every time I hear it.

It's too bad, less vintage sets in the world..

That's terrible Julian. I'm so sorry to hear this news. Was that the warehouse I visited with you?

Chuck Conrad

Hi Chuck, Yes, that's the one.

Back in '78, I lost a bunch of old color sets in a basement, in a building that burned. There was even a Zenith 29KQ type, their first.
They bulldozed the building on top of the stuff. :tears: