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Yeah, I thought that stuff would go low at the auction. I managed to pick up a Philco 66, RCA118, and a Philco 630B parts radio. I got a signal tracer kit and a O'scope too. All pretty cheap.
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That has become a major trend at auctions it seems like. That's one reason why Estes now seems to refuse to take any consoles to sell. People only bid up to $20, gut the cabinets, and then leave those to the auction place to dispose of. Just what are people doing with all these homeless parts they are making?
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(07-12-2015, 06:46 PM)Jayce Wrote: That has become a major trend at auctions it seems like. That's one reason why Estes now seems to refuse to take any consoles to sell. People only bid up to $20, gut the cabinets, and then leave those to the auction place to dispose of. Just what are people doing with all these homeless parts they are making?
This is why the auction houses should make a point of locking their dumpsters, or puting people who do such things on the banned list since it costs the auction house money. It's rather odd in that there was someone on Vancouver craigslist who was giving away the chassis and phonograph parts from a post war radio-phono combo unit as they were repurposing the cabinet, the chassis did have rust so the cabinet probably wasn't much better. But to be fair there are sets where the cabinets are just not worth saving, or the chassis themselves are little more then spare parts, but why people can't take it home first to part it out I have no idea. One thing's for sure, I haven't noticed many more spare parts turning up on fleabay so I too wonder what they are doing with them.
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I guess it doesn't matter what condition its in, people are just butchering radios around here. The only ones being sold and saved up at Estes are fully restored and working units. Estes used to take in project sets, but they too had to be in good shape condition-wise. At least Frederick here scored some nice units. I love that little Lyric console.
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My bud Henry Harmony, a Great American, got a Weston VTVM in a nice wooden cabinet for me from this auction.
Here are some of the items he got there.
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(07-13-2015, 01:06 PM)TA Forbes Wrote: My bud Henry Harmony, a Great American, got a Weston VTVM in a nice wooden cabinet for me from this auction.
Here are some of the items he got there.
Tom;
If that is indicative of the general condition of things at that auction, which it was judging by the pre auction photos that Fred posted a few weeks ago, then I can understand the low bids or no bids that some of this stuff got. When you run into things like cabinet damage, no knobs, loose parts, missing speakers, obvious hack jobs, and unfinished projects, the ALAsP principle really comes into play, especially when you can't inspect and really go over things like you can in a private sale.
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That 5S29 on the top right is one that I would like to get , even if it needs repair on the cabinet.
they are nice radios.
On some of those radios the grill cloth is wekll worth the price of the radio, at least up here in aAberta.
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Henry has a good stash of parts. All of these sets are workers, but he will have them shipshape directly!
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Fred, Chris...........
If you go to another auction tell Jim hello from Boston.
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(07-13-2015, 08:11 PM)Paul Philco322 Wrote: Fred, Chris...........
If you go to another auction tell Jim hello from Boston.
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(07-12-2015, 11:43 PM)Arran Wrote: (07-12-2015, 06:46 PM)Jayce Wrote: That has become a major trend at auctions it seems like. That's one reason why Estes now seems to refuse to take any consoles to sell. People only bid up to $20, gut the cabinets, and then leave those to the auction place to dispose of. Just what are people doing with all these homeless parts they are making?
This is why the auction houses should make a point of locking their dumpsters, or puting people who do such things on the banned list since it costs the auction house money. It's rather odd in that there was someone on Vancouver craigslist who was giving away the chassis and phonograph parts from a post war radio-phono combo unit as they were repurposing the cabinet, the chassis did have rust so the cabinet probably wasn't much better. But to be fair there are sets where the cabinets are just not worth saving, or the chassis themselves are little more then spare parts, but why people can't take it home first to part it out I have no idea. One thing's for sure, I haven't noticed many more spare parts turning up on fleabay so I too wonder what they are doing with them.
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Arran That's pretty bad when you go there to purchase antique radios and they have to lock the dumpster, is anybody
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(07-13-2015, 07:39 PM)TA Forbes Wrote: Henry has a good stash of parts. All of these sets are workers, but he will have them shipshape directly!
Old Henry has the biggest antique radio parts dept in the southwest, if doesn't have it nobody does.
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