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with the environmental laws out here in so-cal, you're lucky to see any TVs in the Thrift stores anymore. You can't just toss em in the garbage here, its illegal! You have to pay 25 bucks in san diego to have someone recycle it for you. The thrift stores don't want to risk paying it if the set doesn't wotk, so they just don't take them unless its pickup from a house ans they can see it work first!
Used to be I got all my tube sets from thrift stores, and most of the time they were happy to give them away after they sat for week on the shelf. Most everything I actually bought I paid less than 15 bucks each for. I've found two TVs in the last year, one being my philco golden grid, the other an admiral combo from 1950. I had to pay 40 and 70 respectively -- non working, but I hate seeing them get tossed. The rest I have were either given to me at some point, were trades, or from AK members.
...still waitin for my roundie...
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