[BC] Saved from the dumpster!

[SHAFFER, RANDY L]

Chuck wrote -
>This discussion of older equipment, someof which is now immensely valuable,
>got me to a-thinkin'..... who here has been lucky enough to prevent a treasure
>from taking that eternal trip to the great landfill in the sky? I know of at
>least one engineer friend who has salvaged LA-4s and a couple of Neumanns.
(snip)

This is something I have never understood. I can understand storage issues prompting clean-outs. But,
there are plenty of people who would gladly haul away just about anything w/o the need for any effort
on the station part. One engineer seems to take pleasure in throwing things away in a way so that
people can't take gear and reuse it.
My dad hauled away radio and TV transmitters for many years. He would salvage some parts and
the rest would go for scrap. He did it as a hobby to keep himself occupied and made a couple bucks
on the metal. He probably could do better now by saving more of the parts and reselling them.

The list of stuff I've saved/pulled from the dumpster and reused mostly at church, include -
Norelco PC-70, IVC-300, Hitachi - FP-21, RCA mics, Computer monitors, Racks, 3/4" & 1/2" decks, 
lighting grid, color and B&W monitors of all sizes, CG's, tripod heads, cart machines, studio
furniture,  and lots of odds and ends. All treasures for us, w/o this stuff we wouldn't have been able
to operate our video ministry as soon as we did.
No gems like Sennheisers or Neumanns though.

Randy Shaffer
Harrisburg, PA