[Flasken]

Rich people´s neighbourhood + communal weekly trash pickup service = ALOT of FREE electronics lying on the streets every wednesday...

Today I got these sweet looking wooden speakers and a cool looking receiver with kasette and radio (you know, those old radios with a little stick gliding through moody lights)!!

I am very curios to try this thing later today!! Perhaps its headphone out even packs a whallop, who knows...

The brand is "Tungsram" model 4450/790

 

[Onix]

That's very nice. When I lived in New York some friends, not poor friends, more like young professionals, would just whatever piece of furniture or electronics they found in the street. A guy got a very nice TV that was discarded because it had a cigarrete burn in the cabinet. I'll rather get new stuff, but if you find a nice discarded PCDP let me know

 

[bubbaj]

"you know, those old radios with a little stick gliding through moody lights"

OMG I feel very old now.

 

[lini]

Flasken: Smart! My friend Georg uses the same method for filling up his vintage computer collection. Recently he found an old NEC V30-machine - completely in Kanji, and that in Munich. He still wonders what the previous owner might have needed this thing for...

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

 

[Mr.PD]

Quote:

Originally posted by bubbaj "you know, those old radios with a little stick gliding through moody lights" OMG I feel very old now.

[size=medium]DITTO !![/size]

 

[andrzejpw]

huh, I took have looked around, but haven't had much luck. Now, garage sales, OTOH,

 

[Flasken]

Hi again!!

Well, it´s been a while and now i've take the whole thing one step further...

I've visited many households in rich neighbourhoods and have made a deal with 4 of them to call me whenever someone on their street would lay out any sorts of electronics.

YAY!!

 

[andrzejpw]

The call. . .

Them: Hi, some woman is just throwing away all of her husbands old electronics. It looks like theres a ton of headphones. . . including this one big shiny piece. Says Orpheus or something on it. . . Oh, damn, sorry, the garbage truck just stopped in front of their house. . . well, nevermind, sorry about that.

You: Nooooooooooooo!

 

[TimSchirmer]

lol

 

[royboy2k]

I'm far too lazy to find used electronics on the street.

 

[Budgie]

Thats great, Flasken! Ya can't beat that price and you may end up with some cool stuff too. Is that Tungsram radio a tube radio?
If it is, take a look at the price of a Tungsram 12ax7 tube-
http://www.thetubestore.com/tungsram12ax7.html

 

[akar]

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[Flasken]

Nope it aint a tube radio... But the sound coming from it is rather good, though I still haven´t gotten the left channel to work properly..

And now to something completely different:

My uncle has recently at a garage sale picked up a VERY sweet looking sony radio/reciever with a wooden cabinet and a very thick aluminium front plate... I hope that I somehow will be able to get it off his hands!!!

Oh, and it´s also got those moody lights from way back in the before-time...