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Old 02-09-2012, 09:19 PM
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Tubes, Tube Testers, Watchmen??

Clearly I may have taken the "Crap" part of this project a little too seriously, although in all fairness I didn't know the Jose Feliciano 8-Track I sent Rob was broken.
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Old 02-10-2012, 04:48 PM
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So yesterday,my boss brings in one of his kids broken Mac laptop for me to check out.Turns out to be a bad power supply,so I tell him I can scrounge up something.I get home that nite to find a box o crap on my porch,I rip it
open and whats inside? The very same P/S needed for my bosses laptop.What are the odds of that?

I hope you gave him the white one, the silver one I put in there only works intermittently.

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The best of what I got was a Sencore CRT tester, one of those little filament-only light-up tube testers still in the original box - complete with instruction book, and an engine vacuum gauge.

So when's part II - I'm already collecting more crap in a pile to be sent.
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Old 02-10-2012, 04:52 PM
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Taint hard to fix an 8-track.....Whenever I get a bunch of new ones or start playing the all old ones after a good rest the metal track splices always start to let go.

Once one gets the hang of opening the cartridge and reassembling the rest comes fairly easy. I've figured out how to re-spool slack from the center and out side alike, and can fix the track splice with super glue or tape so that the metal splice remains and all looks/works right.
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Old 02-15-2012, 05:50 AM
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Is there anyone that didn't receive a crap swap box that participated? If so, please post so that I can needle your gift giver
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Old 02-15-2012, 08:34 AM
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I haven't got mine yet.
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Old 02-15-2012, 06:33 PM
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Old 02-15-2012, 06:47 PM
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PMs sent. To teevee, your gift giver ran into a personal issue, and will be sending first part of next week, with apologies......
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Old 02-15-2012, 08:49 PM
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I'm psyched for Round #2...
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Old 02-15-2012, 09:36 PM
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Still waiting here, but please don't take that as a complaint.
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Old 02-15-2012, 10:29 PM
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I want my Crap now dammit!!
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Old 02-16-2012, 06:27 PM
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No worries.... Wonder how many goodies from "swap I" will be passed on in "swap II".
A couple more iterations, and we;ll all have our old stuff back! =0)
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Old 02-16-2012, 06:50 PM
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No way, Jose...I like my RatShak Radidio just fine...
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Old 02-16-2012, 07:55 PM
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I WIL be ready for crapswap 2 hopefully I will get something tv related I also take forty five rpm records from the fifties just a wish...Timothy
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Old 02-17-2012, 01:25 PM
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We'll start Crap Swap II next week if anyone's game
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Hey Kamakiri I will be ready next week for crapswap 2. hopefully this will be a beter deal for every1.. Timothy
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