[BC] Saved from the dumpster!

[DANA PUOPOLO]

When I cleaned out my garage at my ex's house in SE Mass a few years ago, I
threw out a 30 cubic yard dumpster of stuff (those big construction type
dumsters). Not one person of the fifty or so I called showed up to take
anything.

Stuff tossed included:

RCA BC-7 Stereo consome (pristine).

Gates Executive stereo console.

GE Phasitron exciter (with four new Phasitrons; I kept one because I could not
bear to see it go!).

Hundeds of new receiving tubes

HP oscillator and distortion analyzer (I kept my Sound Tech)

Perhaps 50 111C coils.

Perhaps 20 KS-20159 Line equalizers - many with amplifiers

TV sets.
Stereos.
over 1000 Cd's
almost 1500 records.
telephones.

Speakers (including two pairs of original AR's)

Amplifiers and receivers.

So much other stuff that it defies description.

It literally filled up a 30 cubic yard dumster to the top. Cost me almost 500
bucks to dump the stuff (at cost; a friend owns the hauling service and
provided the dumpster and help for nothing).

-D


------ Original Message ------
Received: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:45:22 AM PDT
From: "SHAFFER, RANDY L" <RandyShaffer at ClearChannel.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: [BC] Saved from the dumpster!

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

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