Bargains...what have you purchased?

Hello.

I look for the stuff nobody else wants, fried FT-101, super modded KWM-2(a), that type of thing.
Estate sales are the way to go.

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Anybody else shop garage sales and estate sales? Many of my best purchases come from these sales, it's surprising how many radio items are in those.

Many moons ago I purchased a NOS NIB Collins R-390A at a garage sale for something like $20. I opened the outer box to verify it was actually NOS NIB via all the proper documents being inside the outer box, never opened the inner box. Sold to a collector in FL a few days later.

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You sold a new R-390A? You should be shot.

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George I already owned a whole stack of perfectly good R-390s and R-390As at the time, still have about 4-6 of each, that "museum quality" and/or NOS NIB gear is much sought after by the deep pockets collectors and I gladly take their money for the pretty stuff.

That old stuff seldom comes out of the box looking brand new and actually works like it would have if purchased while it was newly manufactured. I took a local ham friend over to an elderly gents home who had owned a radio shop for many moons. My friend purchased a NOS NIB Hallicrafters HT-37 and matching SX-111 from the old gent. Both pieces were as pristine as the day they left the Hallicrafters factory, both had multiple problems and stayed on his workbench for weeks. By the time he finished them he had become completely sick of them also and shortly thereafter sold them for a small profit.

I noticed an unbuilt Heathkit SB-220 linear amp kit sell on eBay a few days ago for a small fortune. Granted it would be a hoot to build that kit, immediately after completion you've lost a lot of money because now you have only a very nice SB-220! :rofl:

Years ago a buddy gave me an unbuilt Heath Sixer. I'm sorry now that I put it together. I could have put it on E- Pay and some fool would have given me $500 for it.

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Years ago a buddy gave me an unbuilt Heath Sixer. I'm sorry now that I put it together. I could have put it on E- Pay and some fool would have given me $500 for it.

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Easily. :yes:

The old question of what to do with an unbuilt heathkit is simple for me, I'd have to build the sucker and then be mad at myself for doing so. :rofl:

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Years ago a buddy gave me an unbuilt Heath Sixer. I'm sorry now that I put it together. I could have put it on E- Pay and some fool would have given me $500 for it.

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Easily. :yes:

The old question of what to do with an unbuilt heathkit is simple for me, I'd have to build the sucker and then be mad at myself for doing so. :rofl:

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Kath's uncle built a 21" Heath color TV back in the 70's . It took him over a year to build it and it never did work right.

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Years ago a buddy gave me an unbuilt Heath Sixer. I'm sorry now that I put it together. I could have put it on E- Pay and some fool would have given me $500 for it.

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Easily. :yes:

The old question of what to do with an unbuilt heathkit is simple for me, I'd have to build the sucker and then be mad at myself for doing so. :rofl:

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Kath's uncle built a 21" Heath color TV back in the 70's . It took him over a year to build it and it never did work right.

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I heard those Heath color TVs weren't much when they did work right! :rofl:

But I never actually met anyone who owned one.

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Years ago a buddy gave me an unbuilt Heath Sixer. I'm sorry now that I put it together. I could have put it on E- Pay and some fool would have given me $500 for it.

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Easily. :yes:

The old question of what to do with an unbuilt heathkit is simple for me, I'd have to build the sucker and then be mad at myself for doing so. :rofl:

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Kath's uncle built a 21" Heath color TV back in the 70's . It took him over a year to build it and it never did work right.

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I heard those Heath color TVs weren't much when they did work right! :rofl:

But I never actually met anyone who owned one.

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The people were always blue .

Hello.

We Have a Heath/Zenith TV.
It worked fine until digital came along.
99% of the trouble was in how the thing was put together.
The one we got was first assembled by the chief of communications for San Antonio.
I read the manual, and with a solder sucker and about 6 months of nights got it to work correctly.
I was 14 at the time. :mrgreen:
I knew nothing of electronics to the point to where I could possibly assemble a TV, I just read the manual.
Kind of like paint by numbers, just follow what the manual says, right down to how to solder. :snicker:

Just snagged a Minicircuits 8-port, 50-ohm BNC-connector 10-1000 MHz power splitter for $29.00.

List price on that puppy is $140. :dance

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The people were always blue.

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Permanent Smurf Vision!?