Guess what I found in my dumpster 12-3-24

[Mopar Hunter]

 

[Hey-O]

Sweet find!!

When my wife was a kid, she went over to her grandfather's across the street for holidays. Two of her cousins were the terror of tinseltown and screwed with every button on his TV. He had a standing appointment the next day for the TV repairman to come and fix the picture. We're talking early 60's.

 

[DeltaV]

Fine. Now when you coming over ? I'll watch.View attachment 1767634

Waiting for Daddy to touch the flyback transformer?

 

[WileE]

I broke out an 80 inch screen I...wait for it...found in my dumpster about 10 years ago and hung on to.

Some go shopping for a TV in unusual places......

 

[Longknife]

My Dad was an amateur TV/ radio repairman in the 50s and 60's. He tried to instill the craft into me, but it was BOREING!!!!! I just sold a bunch of his equipment and 150 glass tubes on e-bay.

 

[Billccm]

I was the last graduating class for TV and Radio repair at my high school vocational school. This was 1981 and the writing was on the wall that the trade was dying quickly.

I worked in a TV repair shop from 1979 to 1983. Fun job and actually satisfying to resurrect dead equipment. Our shop was a RCA and Sansui dealer. Lots of high end audio came across my bench.

I moved on to the engineering world, but I still repair radios for friends from time to time. I find working on analog electronics fun and somewhat relaxing.

 

[padam]

I like messing with old radios, but I just can’t get the hang of electronics.

 

[Photon440]

Back in the railroad days, looking through a dumpster by one of the offices I came across a turntable. Pulled it out and it was in good shape, worked pretty well. It was a Sony linear tracking turntable, tossed out when everyone was switching to CDs. It looked like this:

I used it for awhile, then traded it in at a used stereo shop when I got a tube powered preamp.

 

[YY1]

Back in the railroad days, looking through a dumpster by one of the offices I came across a turntable. Pulled it out and it was in good shape, worked pretty well. It was a Sony linear tracking turntable, tossed out when everyone was switching to CDs. It looked like this:
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I used it for awhile, then traded it in at a used stereo shop when I got a tube powered preamp.

PL-77.

I have one as well.

Not a super common piece.

Mine was $5 at a thrift store with all the wires cut.

RCA's were easy to fix. Power was a PITA.

It's 100% now.