An amazing hoard of TVs - very interesting video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcjnVGPEr48&feature=related

Was this video created by a forum member?

Carl

I believe that that username is from ARF, and his user name here is CTC-17, but I may be wrong (please don't get mad if I'm wrong).

Yes Yes -Please save them everyone (as you know..) :)
personally, nothing beats a good ol kine-based display !

Yep thats me. I still need to post the video on what I brought back, mostly metal table top stuff.

I ffinished watching the video and now have a nose bleed, and my shirt is covered in drool. This is the kind of place I have dreams of visiting, and I will probably dream of it tonight. If I was not out of space I'd be dying to get in on that impressive stash! If I did not have mostly great stuff I'd consider burning my collection on the front lawn to make space to get in on this!
It should go without saying that this is a tube TV geeks wet dream!

I think the ETF should maybe ban bringing stuff to sell next year and truck the contents of those buildings to Ohio for distribution/sale to collectors.

I should not go there or entertain the though of getting in on that as I'd find more things I'd have to save than I'd be able to store (if I annexed all living space for storage, and stacked em up like cord wood that is) let alone transport, but damn it my inner 5 year old wants part of that hoard soooo bad.....

Like I commented on the video-There WOULD have been a Hornet's Nest in there...And I WOULD have found it---Or, they would have found ME...(grin)

It looks like a lot but when you start testing crts the room gets much smaller. You really have to analyze the sets you want for restorability. The aria is very damp so rust, wood rot and flyback failures are a problem

Dont even think of trading anything you own for anything in there.

Cool! More than just TVs in there...I spied a GE "Monitor" fridge...you know, the kind with the works in the round housing on top.

Were those stacks of CRTs all NOS?

Hoarding cases like that are sad. The hoarder has no interest in using the items, much less restoring them. They are not even displayed. It's all about the getting -- and then they are forgotten and often left to crumble.

I went to an estate sale several weeks ago that was similar, although not as extreme. At least the things piled in the house had been kept mostly dry. Not true for the items crammed into two unheated sheds in the back. Everything back there was slowly returning to the elements.

After witnessing a scene like that, I return home and look at my own piles of "stuff" with a different eye.

That said, I would have enjoyed exploring that shed. Haven't we all had those "treasure" dreams, where you stumble onto an amazing trove of interesting stuff?

Phil Nelson

I used to have dreams like that - going into some garage, and finding a filthy mcintosh mc-60 or something. Then wake up and realize i have to get up and go to work haha.

The tv show hoarders is entertaining, i usually end up watching it in hotels, since i don't get tlc at home. usually it's slobs or people with mental illness, but the occasional episode i think hey just leave this guy alone.

I saw that video a couple weeks ago (posted by a fellow AKer on Facebook, IIRC). Did the CTC-5 get saved? (Near the door in the opening scene)....

Charles

yes

Hoard is not the right word. Its 40 years if customer 'turn ins'/'haul aways' from a huge tv distributor/repair shop/retail sales store.

In that case, I guess they had to use whatever space was available.

Were turn-ins and trade-ins kept mainly to salvage parts? The radio/TV guy in my home town would periodically sell off working sets like that, during the town's annual "dollar days." That's where I got my very first radio, an old Silvertone console. The market for such things is limited, though. I always imagined that most things traded in to him eventually made their way to the dump.

Phil Nelson

Very entertaining video. Still even though those TVs are deteriating, there are still a lot of desirable parts - tubes, bezels, knobs, etc.

In the video you mention that there were some rooms that you were not allowed to see - is that were the good stuff was? Did you see many B/W roundies?

Like to find a hoard like that - its what we all dream about:-)

Carl

An amazing hoard. Frightening and sad: frightening that anyone would hoard sets in such a disorganized fashion and sad that they have been left to deteriorate.

What exactly is the point of this? Is it confirmed that these sets are trade-ins? Why was this place left in such a mess? (It reminds me of a nuclear holocaust scene like the one depicted in the "Twilight Zone").

Or did someone simply suffer from a bizzarre hoarding fetish?

Terry

Or did someone simply suffer from a bizzarre hoarding fetish?


Don't we all? :scratch2:

I just watched the video finally - I like the part at the end with a little bit of on the road auto repair.

The TVs are too much for words! I wonder how many similar "collections" are still sitting undiscovered.

I wonder if there is a warehouse somewhere with all the items SAMS made Photofacts of. Basically one of everything....

I wonder if there is a warehouse somewhere with all the items SAMS made Photofacts of. Basically one of everything....

The library of congress for electronics! That would be amazing to find if it exists.

When did sams stop making photofacts? Must be 80s sometime.

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When did sams stop making photofacts? Must be 80s sometime.

Late 90s early 00s. It wasnt that long ago

SAMS copyrights are still asserted. Scans of any SAMS can be purchased on the net from the copyright owners.

SAMS copyrights are still asserted. Scans of any SAMS can be purchased on the net from the copyright owners.

I bought the sams for my 16 inch zenith directly from sams in 2008 before i discovered videokatrma, and other online resources.

I guess if they made them up until early 00s, then i might be able to find one for my 1997 panasonic 20'', which would be awesome.

Yes, Sams is still in business, https://www.samswebsite.com/ .

Anyone curious about what they did with those old sets could send them an email question.

You can buy hardcopy or scans of any Sams literature from their website. Some public libraries also have a Sams subscription and can provide their members with a free scan or hardcopy of a Sams manual.

Phil Nelson

So how many of these sets did you rescue, and what became of the rest?

An amazing hoard. Frightening and sad: frightening that anyone would hoard sets in such a disorganized fashion and sad that they have been left to deteriorate.

What exactly is the point of this? Is it confirmed that these sets are trade-ins? Why was this place left in such a mess?

Very simply, what you see is the bi-product of forty years in the appliance business.

Look at it this way: that much stuff and more was put in landfills by just about every other one of the thousands upon thousands of appliance dealers in the country. Think about that.

Great video. This has to take the cake for finds, maybe forever? Overwhelming, really, to see that many sets and that much variety.

I know 2 semi-retired TV repairmen and both have some stuff in buildings. The one guy I have talked to again and again; he always seems very anxious for me to help him clean out but then he never calls me. Around 20 years ago he offered to let me borrow his utility trailer to haul sets from one building but I never followed up. I have no idea what he has or doesn't have. One day a couple years ago a big pile of sets showed up in the front yard of a farmhouse on a lonely backroad. I investigated, turned out this repairman had talked the owner into letting him store sets there; the owner's grandson had inherited it and was cleaning it out. There was a $ervice $aver 23v console & a flatchassis solid state plus a variety of later 70s stuff. Most ended up at the dump. Who knows how many places he had stuff hid away.

The other guy has a building on his property, a decent sized 2-door commerical garage. I was in there close to 20 years ago and sets were stacked 3 high, packed tight. I have no idea what might be in there, but have often daydreamed. He did tell me that he had a couple Predictas.

But, again, the find in this video beats all!

Phil's right. Hoarders are rarely restorers. They're just pack rats.

I can't watch that show "Hoarders." It makes me want to take those people out of their houses and shoot them. They're dirty, lazy, and irresponsible.

I feel a little better now...:smoke:

Just out of curiousity, where was this stuff located?

I think Oklahoma.