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Originally Posted by TUD1
HOLY MOLY! I hope you know that you are living my dream. That is, becoming a "hunter/gatherer." Hunting out old TV's all over the country and gathering them into my collection and restoring them. Good luck with all of 'em!
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I often have actual dreams about wandering around places like this, odd cavernous abandoned buildings, and (often poorly lit) antique shops that seem to go on forever....There is an anime where one of the characters says "This place looks like the inside of (forgot the character's name) mind."...That place in a way looks a lot like the inside of my mind.
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Originally Posted by Titan1a
My highest compliments! Great job: you deserve a metal.
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Originally Posted by DaveWM
I did a pick like that, and remember the T and jeans being exactly the same, so dirty you had to wash off before washing off. nice score but now you have to figure out a way to store it all. That is the problem.
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Originally Posted by DavGoodlin
Great rescue job. this always happens when its freakin' hot too!
When shop closed near work in August 2014, my truck was filled inside and in the bed with 90 subwoofer boxes with NOS tubes. I made space in the attic of my garage. Dry and you can access them via 12 foot ladder, like a library.
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Originally Posted by WISCOJIM
When I scavenged the Radio/TV Lab on West Irving Park in Chicago several years ago I spent 19 days filling my van to the roof 11 times in mid-December with no heat or lights in the building.
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A pick like this is the Olympics of TV collecting, it is hard labor in miserable conditions (muphy's law or something must state that the weather can never be especially good for something like this), with a steep time table. I mostly was in move quickly mode and barely was able to take it all in.
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Originally Posted by Jon A.
I think Tilex mold and mildew killer ought to take care of the wood sets. I use it in the bathroom all the time and once on a radio's speaker grille cloth. Cleaned it up nicely.
Damn that's a nice haul. Of course you would be nuts for getting more, but revel in that, I would do it if I could. Store some of this stuff outside if you need to, just cover it up and maybe build a shed to hold the overflow.
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I may try that sun and bleach kills mold so I plan to dismantle the sets to separate chassis, cab, CRT and clean all very well. I am nuts enough to go back. Dirty somewhat incomplete sets of the type I really like are more interesting to me than perfect examples of sets I sorta like.
I don't have monies for another shed. I plan to get them clean enough to store in the basement, and reshuffel the basement to fit them....There should be plenty of space even for a second or third pick if I do it right.