Score at estate sale...

[bgadow]

That was a lucky catch-a pair of nice projects for my favorite price! Sales like that can be great fun. I remember one sale I attended, widely advertised as having lots of cb and scanner stuff. I got there late in the day and loaded my truck for less than $10. The really good stuff was long gone but I didn't do bad. At another sale a guy was cleaning his garage, and everything was 25 cents/each. I scored 4 or 5 tube CB base stations and a nice 20w Muzak tube amp. I have lost out by being too late, on many occasions, but just as often I scored that last minute bargain from the tired seller.

[ChrisW6ATV]

I occasionally have a booth at either of our local monthly ham radio flea markets. These events differ from normal flea markets or garage sales (aside from being all-electronic, or mostly so) by starting at 7 AM or even earlier, and shutting down before noon. The annoying thing we get is people who practically reach into our vehicle to look at things before we can even get them onto the tables. Oh, and also the ones who buy things cheap and then put them in their own booth at a higher price. You can usually recognize them when they just ask the price of about five different items one after the other and don't even make a counter offer on any.

[Old1625]

Well last night I opened up the Bendix set and removed the chassis from the cabinet.

Fortunately--and as I began to suspect after thinking about the previous owner and his electronic interests--he had recapped the chassis. Unfortunately since then some other work was done--by mice. There was a nest of fiber-glass insulation and debris about the size of a football under the chassis, and any of the windings of the vertical output transformer (Stancor A-8113) that got in the way were beavered away, so I'll be looking around for another one of those.

The audio output transformer likely suffered as well.

Other than some corrosion spots on the chassis and tuner everything seems intact, and I feel a guarded optimism.