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Post Subject: The dead guy’s lessons.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/20/2009
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 floobydust wrote: |
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Recently I visited an estate sale on western part of Boston. I usually do not go to such events but I was attracted that I was promised 100s tube radios, 1000s tube and 100s vintage speakers. I was not misled: it was a full 3 bedroom house where each leaving space and garage were literally packed up with all imaginable RCA , Philco , Zenith, Motorola, Grundig, General Electric and many other brands. Some of them were table-size and some of them were large console type. The radios were mostly from 40s and 50s and some of the smaller speakers were from 60s. I really did not need any of it but spent some time to inspect how they made large radio enclosures from the perspective of acoustics and wall-loading the speakers. I did not find anything inspiriting for myself in what observed. I kind of considered to get some interning loudspeakers drivers and there were plenty those that I never seen but they I asked myself why would I need it? I decided to let it to pass. What I got from that house was a box with small 45-type triodes. It was tine of them and at some point I got tiered to pay attention what they were – so, I took any 4 pins globe-shape tubes I saw. It was a fun to dig the tubes from under 2 inch of dust – some of them certainly were never touched from WWII. In one consol I saw a fabric bag with the radios circuit, hand-written recommendations how to use it and few sets of spear tubes. The note had a date- 1953. Anyhow, as the result I got a box of 45, UX112A, A245, 71A, CX326, UX235 and a few others for the price of gas and tolls I paid to driver in there… It kind of shame that I am staying for now with my YO186 in Milq’a MF channel and do not switch to 45 and now I have a huge selection of them.
Well, when I die and people will be selling my estate some deranged guy will dig among my garbage. I think I need to leave in there a message, explaining to the guy why he is a Moron…. :-)
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