Techmoan. In fact I remember him reviewing a similar unit. I suspect the people who bought these had reel to reels. Also the double cassette deck was a fairly late invention and was scorned by Audiophiles, although they would be unlikely to be shopping in Tandy. I just sold a Pioneer SA6200 amplifier from the early 1970s. Despite only being 15W per channel it had connections for 2x Record Decks 2 x Tape decks 2 x Aux Tuner They obviously liked having lots of inputs back then.
I was messing around Longman, my rack has DAT, RTR, cassette, MD, TT. My Marantz Reciever has five inputs so I can handle most of them.
Hi all, hope everyone is all good! The car boots have finally started up in the UK again. Got a biggie this morning, very dirty but the radio sounds great! Was only £2 More later...
yeah, great find - i haven‘t seen one in real but looks like „poor man‘s 555“ (...or very poor man‘s 777)
I think it is 90% the same as the 555, and looks better too (and I'm saying that as a 555 owner). The 525 / 555 seem to be quite common here in the U.K. while I have yet to see a 777. Finding any of them for £2 is an absolute bargain though. I sold my first 555 for about £80 and then couldn't resist getting another for £25 because it was "collect only" Ebay Auction close to here.
wow, i never even figured that out, must check my own 555 again (...as you see, it might be a little neglected...)
Great find! Maybe I'll go out today and try to find a garage sale. With all of the shut-ins, people are cleaning up everything, it should be a great time to look. The lines at the thrift store drop-off has been long.
Cool Catch for 2 quid! BTW, guys, advise please how to find those in the UK? For example, when I happen to land in Oxford, soon I hope, how to find ones not far from?
As usual Google has the answer http://www.carbootsales.org/car_boot_sales/oxfordshire.html#:~:text=Oxford's long running and famous,every Sunday throughout the year. Do you know where the Kassam Stadium is ? (don't ask me). I'm sure there are others. A friend usually visits about three close to here on a Sunday. I have no idea why they usually start so early. If you have been to a UK car boot sale expect to find loads of Children's toys, Women and Children's Clothes, 1980s vintage power tools, Max Bygraves records, Freeview boxes, DVD players, printers, baskets full of mobile phone chargers and leads and if you are lucky the odd boombox or personal stereo. The good news is that many people try to sell stuff at car boots which they otherwise would be taking to the tip so don't ask high prices. It isn't uncommon for people to have a groundsheet labelled "Everything 50p each" which changes to "everything free" half an hour before packing up time, especially if they have sold £30 worth of stuff after paying their £10 pitch fee (which is actually quite high, most around here being £5 or £6). Whenever, I have been selling the problem is that I sell £30 worth of stuff and buy £25 worth. For people who have never been to one this was our local one on a nice day in 2017. More sellers than buyers at this point,
Yes, I know where it is on the map, saw signs many times while driving from Oxford to London centre. Thank you for the detailed heads-up!
Hello, people. I know it’s been some years since the S2G member Simon shared some good photos of – and his impressions about – a Panasonic RX-DT707, one of apparently several “car boot sale ‘finds’” of his in the UK. But, coming across his message about that Panasonic, I wonder how he fared with his plan to “attack” the quite noticeable speaker grille dents that the “Magic Cobra Top” stereo had. Did he succeed in ridding the ‘DT707 of the dents? Did he shrug and decide to live with those metal mesh cave-ins? Or did he give that Panasonic away, letting someone else make those dents their problem? I ask because I quite recently bought a different Panasonic: an RX-ES25. It’s a smaller, probably less desired single-cassette-deck model, made in 2001. But it looks good, too – except for that slight but darned grille dent that I noticed some hours before typing this message. The dent is to the right speaker grille and it’s slight. But it’s there and it’s only recently discovered, so it’s quite frustrating. It’s good that the eBay seller who sold this stereo to me earlier in October 2020 disclosed the broken-off antenna clip in the boombox’s rear panel. But they didn’t disclose the “speaker dent” issue. Did they forget to do so? Or did they never notice that slight dent? How does one remove such a grille dent without trying to remove the grille to get at the dent since the grille was probably never meant to be removed? Alas, I’m still not “handy with tools.” (Blush) I’ve checked on eBay for dent-removal tools. And I came across this listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/110-US-Pai...s-Hail-Puller-Lifter-Hammer-Tail/182764885019 The array of tools is impressive. (Well, to l’il ol’ me, I shrug.) But will any of them get the job done? “Advice is what we seek when we know the answer but wish we didn’t” is a saying attributed to Erica Jong. (Time to cite it again, I suppose.) Does one have to open up the Panasonic RX-ES25 to fix its speaker grille dent?
Without seeing pictures I would guess that you would need to tackle it from the inside. I have read about people using a small roller (like you use for wallpaper seams) to flatten out grills.
Hopefully everyone is doing great, I've hit a few sales this spring hoping to catch up this year since everyone seems to be having a garage sale. Two of my first finds were the beautiful Sony SRF-80, missing part of the antenna and the label on the bottom but otherwise it works like a champ. I had them throw in the 8mm for an extra $5 and amazingly it works great, the batteries all work and it plays the tapes. This is the infamous "NightShot" camera that can take nude videos with the right filter....Score!
I stopped in an antique store by my jobsite today, they had a General Electric in the box JCPenny 8-Track Boombox A smaller AKAI Reel to Reel And I brought home the Curtis Mathis JX-500 with me, it's in nearly mint condition.
I picked up these two items this weekend, A Sony Cyber-shot and Starrett Rules for Precision Measuring. I love old machining books, this is from 1965 and has some of the best tools in it. The Sony Cyber-shot is a nice little pocket camera that was a few dollars, these are great for some of the projects I work on and don't want to use a phone.
That camera, from back in the day when Sony slapped a Carl Zeiss badge on everything with a lens fond memories
Until they decided it was cheaper to make their own ? I thought I had found the exact camera but the lens is Sony https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-DSCW310-Cyber-Shot-Digital-Optical/dp/B003AYWSDA 12.1MPixels is more than enough for most uses, and the camera should beat any Smartphone in low light. Whatever happened to Xenon Flash on phones? My last two phones had it. Even the cheap 110 film camera I got in the early 1980s had it. Most of the photos I post here are taken with a similar Canon digital camera which cost me about £130 new eleven years ago. I have certainly had my moneys worth many times from it,
