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Originally Posted by Electronic M
A few weeks back I bought a bunch of guitar and HiFi amp chassis that had fallen victim to copper scrappers. It probably would have been worth a couple of grand if they had not ripped off and taken most of the transformers....Hell, one of the HiFi chassis was worth a good 400$ unrestored before they took it apart, and the moron probably got a fraction of that from scrapping the lot of them.
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Geez, I'd like to think that even scrappers have some idea of the value of those old tube amps. So much for that.
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Originally Posted by Username1
Funny stories like the copper strippers make me think about when I was a kid.
When I got home from school on Fridays, I would hop the bike and take off for where
ever there was a tv, (spied from the bus) Most thrown out in the late 70's were floor model sets.
I would bring tools, and take out tubes, yokes, power cords, removing the metal clip, not
cutting anything, I used them so I needed them. Portables I took home, lawn mowers too.
I know there were a few kids near me that did the same thing, But now it makes me
wonder how many adults may have been looking to take home any of those sets I
"pilfered" parts out of....? Kinda like some of you guys do now....
Or was repairing and selling stuff like that only a kid thing, as jobs were better
back then.....?
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Hm, I don't recall any curbed consoles in the trash-picking days of my youth. I did fix and sell a set I found outside the old Tel-Star TV and Appliance dealership during heavy rain. Also, I once borrowed the super's dolly to retrieve a clothes dryer that was nearby. I think the bearings had gone bad in that one, and there were enough quality laundry machines still around at the time for us to part it out. This was about 1993-95.
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