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You seem to be on the lookout for vintage record players 'n' stuff for the express purpose of stripping parts. That's not nice.
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09-10-2007, 04:56 AM
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I don't think his parents are as enthused by the old gear as Jesse is, and he is also very limited with space to put his humble collection. 20 years from now, this kid might be the Master Tech the next generation comes to on AK for advice and knowledge.... Give him a hand, not a public spanking, Jesse is not the kind of guy who would mutilate a mint condition piece of gear, just for kicks or parts...
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09-10-2007, 08:09 AM
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09-10-2007, 01:34 PM
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should promote hobby
Iv'e seen several collectors and seller's ridiculed on at different times over small stuff. The fact is, older collectors eventually age and pass away. Newer collectors that are not born in generation when equipment was new, are critical. Without their enthusiasm and dedication, many an item would go in the Cr@p dumster. An effort is done for any collector on time, space and money and energy. Just the equipment to check flybacks ,crts and also variacs are harder to find anymore. A helpful way to guide collectors to preserve sets is good and FRIENDLY advice,such as PMing member are sets worth more as parts or entire set. Some sets aren't even valuable yet, finders for parts or TVs should be welcomed. Encouragement and being positive are good for hobby.
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09-11-2007, 11:33 AM
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I was lucky and was allowed to bring TVs home when I was 9 & 10, and I am glad to see that there are others up & coming to this hobby. I was always the youngest one to show up at the SCARS swapmeet in Burbank on a moped in the early 80s, and now just about none of those original SCARS (Southern Cal Antique Radio Society) members are still there. In fact, just about every TV collector I knew when I first started in the mid-late 70s is no longer among us. Ken Herbruck, Gary Hough, Tim Passadore, Kent Warner, etc etc.
So I welcome all young collectors!!!!!!!!! Charles
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09-11-2007, 12:07 PM
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I brought home my first tube radio around 1983 at the age of 11. My first tube TV came around 1987. My parents tolerated it, glad that I wasn't getting into real trouble. I don't think I met anyone else who was really interested in old TV sets until I found AK just a few years ago. In fact, in the early 90s I got rid of much of what I had because I decided it was just silly of me to have all these old 60s color sets. When I found this group I realized it was, at least somewhat, normal!
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09-11-2007, 07:33 PM
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I guess my first radio "project" was a '37-'38 Airline table set. Found it at the "neighborhood" St. Vinnie's in 1963. Turned out it had a shorted electrolytic, burned-out 5U4 and, naturally, the power-xfmr was bad...
My first TV was a '53 Sylvania 21-incher (the one like yours, Bryan) from the Episcopal Ladies' Auxiliary thrift store (opened in '62 in the abandoned movie theater, still there today). Someone asked me in 1982 if I owned anything new (my apartment was full of vintage stuff), so I answered "Yes, I like to buy new food". That shut him up.
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Just relieved to see my name wasn't on Charles' list. -Steve D.
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I am VERY lucky on this subject, I guess. I live in a small apartment on the back of my parents house, and it is almost crowded of vintage stuff. Were I still living with my parents, I doubt I would be having peace with my collection. Even so, from time to time they complain that I am putting to much stuff there ... I heve to tell them that since I am the one who lives there, it is just my problem.
Hehe, it's not just the vintage stuff, which by itself is huge ( old TVs and phono-combos are big ) but also all my movie memorabilia: lots of Star Wars model kits, posters, action figures, magazines, CDs, DVDs, etc,etc... I even appeared in a newspaper article in 1999, when "Episode I" came out, with my collection...paraphrasing the late James Brown - "I'm nerd and I am proud!" I am even more lucky that I have a VERY comprehensive wife. She says that I can keep buying as much old stuff as I want, as long as it don't give her any trouble. She also does like, in some way, the things from the past, because she really likes to listen to old LP records, she's not a big CD fan, she is always buying old records on the used book shops where they are sold. She always ask me when I will restore my 1962 Philips radio-phono. So much the better. If I had a wife who wanted me to choose - "me or your collection" - I would tell her to pack her things...
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