When you took us through the 'Magic Door' I nearly died! I thought (until you mentioned otherwise) that all the equipment was yours and on your property!! Still amazing though..
Looks like my place before I moved 3 years ago..........I dumped over 15 metric tons of TV and Radio Broadcast equipment to the scrap yard and another10 odd tons to the waste recycle centre........I still have 8 40 foot shipping containers of it lol.......I still can't find anything I want when I want it..... The really sad thing is we used to have a scrap yard about 30 mins away from my old place, and they used to scrap Tech stuff from tender process's, and there was 6 big AM broadcast station amps siting there.......each one was about 5kw or so, complete with Valves and everything needed to get them going.........I had intentions of going back to pick them up for scrap value, but a couple of months passed, and when I went back they were gone.....not only them....the whole place !!!!.....bloody developers had brought the place and bulldozed the whole place......I was gutted the place was full of great stuff.....all gone.
Wow... too bad there isn't a video of the place you speak of. Crazy the things we love to do and see. To me, the top of the beauty heap, are the big transmitters built with 833A and the such. I guess I was mesmerized by those instruments when I was a kid and was taken to a small AM station in the little town I lived in in Alabama. I remember the call letters as WRAB (Arab, Alabama) I imagine many of those 1960 era AM stations are gone nowadays.
Yeah, it seemed so different the way things were back then.........I was the kid who spend "TV Time" sitting behind the TV set peering in through the slots in the back of the set mesmerised by the glowing valves lol.....it must have shown, because when that TV finally quit my Dad gave it to me as my 5th birthday present with a handful of tools to pull it apart........and to ride my bike around in the bush and find an old radio or something else that contained Valves was like finding a gold nugget......I think my friends thought I was nuts.....they were probably right lol. Anyway I ended up a Broadcast Engineer after a few false starts with other jobs, so have been able to pretty much satisfy my craving for electronics.....although that in itself lead to me starting an Outside Broadcast facility which kind of killed the fun to a degree.....to much running around checking everyone else's work. I have wound that business down to a large degree now and only do the jobs I want to (used to be 720 OB's a year !)........and am totally enjoying the time to do my thing and even watch guys like yourself and Uncle Doug enjoying what you do...... Funnily enough I seem to get more pleasure out of fixing Amps, both RF and Audio that anything else, and the odd 2 way / Ham radio as well. Anyway enough of me babbling.......yes I kick myself about that scrap place......and a few others due to not being able to get into because of Gov "must destroy contracts" grrrrr I hate that.......there is one place left that I know of.... 5 hours from here. not as good, but still a few gems in the rough ;)
Heaven help us, you are as weird as me as I did the same thing wondering what the heck is going on inside the box with all those beautiful tubes. I would ride my bicycle up and down the alleys going through the trash cans of the TV repair shops taking the tubes back in to have them tested. I bet I still have some of those tubes in my stash from 55 years ago. I wanted to go into RF or audio but computers was my career and a really good one. I am blessed to have been and seen and done all the things I got to do in a job as a government contractor with all the agencies and military-industrial-contracts. There are still gems in the rough to be had and restored so don't ever quit looking... :-)
Great video! I am grateful to have met you, at an estate sale. (A few weeks ago) Love to make a trip up there with you. Kevin W, from Michigan. I also haven't had a chance to go to any sales in LC.
Very nice, I thought It was just me filling up my garage with electronic test equipment. As for a hobbyist, not to many years ago, that $$$$$$$ HP test equipment was not obtainable, unless you had very deep pockets. I have been very fortunate to be able to acquired some very good HP stuff these last couple of years. Was that a Heathkit Model IG-5280 RF oscillator? I built a bunch of their kits..
We are very fortunate to be able to pick up this equipment nowadays for prices that we can afford and have much of it still work very well. I can't comment on the Heathkit as I did not notice it. I built Heathkits back in the 1960's also but always wanted better.
Quite literally everything there is interesting, from Apollo 11 communications equipment to every assortment of tubes and oscilloscopes and CRT monitors and video equipment and infinitely more.
I think that I would personally live there if something like this was available in Australia, to my knowledge this sort of thing doesn't exist down under! It's such a pity that American shipping charges cost more than the product itself.... Australia would clear out that warehouse in two days but government's just don't understand how to get the economy moving forward in the right direction...
I agree with you. It is most unfortunate shipping is so expensive between our countries as we are so much alike and so much cheaper shipping between the USA and China. I really like the fellow that owns this equipment but he wants so much money for everything and ends up selling such a tiny fraction of it, he is basically a hoarder. That is his right and I respect it but I figure the vast majority of this stuff will end up in the landfill (hopefully much of it recycled) as it is way too expensive for the local buyers to pay. Many other places like this have existed in the past decades but they all end up the same.
ElPaso TubeAmps I wonder if it would work out more cost effective if a shipping container was filled and sent over... did you say that you get free or cheap shipping charges from China? if that's the case then we just have to find a Chinese shipping company who can just forward the parcel... because we get free shipping from China even though it takes a good month to get here... Yeah I don't know LoL but what I do know is that there is a market for this in Australia and no one is servicing it... The first person who makes this happen will have that segment of the market all to themselves..... I have seen other videos of swap meets in the US and the prices are crazy cheap compared with the same thing here IF you can find it LoL... You would think as allies our government's would be looking after all of us! But when did the government's ever actually think about the people who put them there in the first place... The world needs more people like Julian Assange to keep the bastards honest... Anyway, I don't really want to get into the politics... I'm not really into tube amplification but I do appreciate it, I like my solid state T03 transistor powered amplifiers and I see a lot in tube amplifiers that would work in solid state... I just watched your video on using audio line transformers as output transformers... I have been thinking of trying out a transformer coupled output solid state amp... I just have to wrap my head around the impedance of primary and secondary sides to know if I can buy one or wind my own? microwave transformers are cheap and no to hard to rewind... old arc welders have some nice and big transformers.... my son got me an arc welder for father's day and I nearly fell over when I opened it up and saw the transformer inside! It's huge! my first thought was tube amplifier! The welder was only $80AU. you literally couldn't get the transformer on it's own for that price LoL... have you ever rewound a transformer? I haven't seen all your videos yet but I'm slowly getting there one at a time LoL..
That's incredible! Had to go get a towel to wipe up the drool. Can anyone go there and buy that stuff? Or do you have to know someone?I think I'd buy that whole Tektronix aisle!
Looks a little like my favorite surplus place to haunt and hunt in, that's P&T surplus at 198 Abeel st Kingston, N.Y. although its not as narrow aisled and a little smaller, they have lots of GOODIES ! Tim Smythe is the current owner with his son !! I love places like this this !!!! Have a GREAT DAY ------------------ John A bellas KC2UVN
Hi Francesco, Personally, I do not have a HP 410B VTVM for sale but you might contact the store in this video as he may have one. I do not at the moment, have the information to contact the seller but if you look down in the comments you will see multiple places where his website can be found. Good luck in your search.
Hi Kevin, Good to hear from you. I do plan a trip to see Roger soon and see what type of UTC output transformers he has. Email me at my UA-cam email and we can swap numbers and maybe you can go with me when I do travel to LC. Hopefully next week. TheAudioShop@SBCGlobal.Net David
Wonderful !! ..... if they asked me if I can choose from a brothel of whores all paid for a month ........ or take to home a dozen pieces of my choice from that warehouse ..... I would immediately choose the second option .... !!
Yep, someday this will all be buried or recycled and the property turned into a parking lot. I know there are (at least, were) some surplus places around Albuquerque that I have been to but its been several years since I have been there.
I think the easy way out right now is to download and use free for 30 days the SpectraPlus software. www.spectraplus.com/Downloads.htm It displays THD and is pretty good. You may be able to use it with the internal sound card of a laptop or PC but it will likely work better with an outboard USB sound unit. Hope this helps.
Hi David, Did you mean when you die and go to HELL, you'll have to fix all of this stuff??? I can just imagine once you get it all repaired, calibrated and cleaned up, everything gets a new hard to find BUG and you have to start over and over and over... Oh, you have to repair each piece in place in those tight and dusty isles. All you get to work with is a cheap straight and Phillips screwdriver, a pair of pliers, rusty pocket knife and radio shack VOM with a sticking meter and weak batteries. The floors are covered with screws, nails and other miscellaneous hardware and you are barefoot. All spare parts are questionable, the lighting is poor and it's HOT... HOT as HELL...Hi hi Think I'll start going to church more often!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glenn, I have to admit, you described it best - an eternal extension of how I have to work on many things now. :-) I think I have the hot as hell covered already in the summer sun of El Paso. I was just up on the roof of a house installing a log periodic antenna for TV so I can cancel the satellite and save some money. At least it is below 100 and overcast a bit - pretty rate for the desert. I hear it is never too late (to attend more church...)
Wow that's incredible! I could happily spend years sporting and organising that stuff! Lol
"I don't know why I'm whispering" hahahaha I almost died laughing.
This video should be rated R 18+, it's 100% porn
ElPaso TubeAmps I think you just gave us a tour of paradise !
What a treasury! Would like to explore it...
that is where I go as well. love that place . I've been there quite a few times and never found that up stairs bit :(
When you took us through the 'Magic Door' I nearly died! I thought (until you mentioned otherwise) that all the equipment was yours and on your property!! Still amazing though..
Looks like my place before I moved 3 years ago..........I dumped over 15 metric tons of TV and Radio Broadcast equipment to the scrap yard and another10 odd tons to the waste recycle centre........I still have 8 40 foot shipping containers of it lol.......I still can't find anything I want when I want it.....
The really sad thing is we used to have a scrap yard about 30 mins away from my old place, and they used to scrap Tech stuff from tender process's, and there was 6 big AM broadcast station amps siting there.......each one was about 5kw or so, complete with Valves and everything needed to get them going.........I had intentions of going back to pick them up for scrap value, but a couple of months passed, and when I went back they were gone.....not only them....the whole place !!!!.....bloody developers had brought the place and bulldozed the whole place......I was gutted the place was full of great stuff.....all gone.
Wow... too bad there isn't a video of the place you speak of. Crazy the things we love to do and see. To me, the top of the beauty heap, are the big transmitters built with 833A and the such. I guess I was mesmerized by those instruments when I was a kid and was taken to a small AM station in the little town I lived in in Alabama. I remember the call letters as WRAB (Arab, Alabama) I imagine many of those 1960 era AM stations are gone nowadays.
Yeah, it seemed so different the way things were back then.........I was the kid who spend "TV Time" sitting behind the TV set peering in through the slots in the back of the set mesmerised by the glowing valves lol.....it must have shown, because when that TV finally quit my Dad gave it to me as my 5th birthday present with a handful of tools to pull it apart........and to ride my bike around in the bush and find an old radio or something else that contained Valves was like finding a gold nugget......I think my friends thought I was nuts.....they were probably right lol.
Anyway I ended up a Broadcast Engineer after a few false starts with other jobs, so have been able to pretty much satisfy my craving for electronics.....although that in itself lead to me starting an Outside Broadcast facility which kind of killed the fun to a degree.....to much running around checking everyone else's work.
I have wound that business down to a large degree now and only do the jobs I want to (used to be 720 OB's a year !)........and am totally enjoying the time to do my thing and even watch guys like yourself and Uncle Doug enjoying what you do......
Funnily enough I seem to get more pleasure out of fixing Amps, both RF and Audio that anything else, and the odd 2 way / Ham radio as well.
Anyway enough of me babbling.......yes I kick myself about that scrap place......and a few others due to not being able to get into because of Gov "must destroy contracts" grrrrr I hate that.......there is one place left that I know of.... 5 hours from here. not as good, but still a few gems in the rough ;)
Heaven help us, you are as weird as me as I did the same thing wondering what the heck is going on inside the box with all those beautiful tubes. I would ride my bicycle up and down the alleys going through the trash cans of the TV repair shops taking the tubes back in to have them tested. I bet I still have some of those tubes in my stash from 55 years ago.
I wanted to go into RF or audio but computers was my career and a really good one. I am blessed to have been and seen and done all the things I got to do in a job as a government contractor with all the agencies and military-industrial-contracts.
There are still gems in the rough to be had and restored so don't ever quit looking... :-)
Every single one of your videos is pure entertainment :D
Dang bet if ya look deep enough you'll find the kitchen sink lol WOW..!! They'd have to make me go home. Very cool 😎
WTF? You are ham(ster) guy.....haha! Excellent!
WOW!!!!!!
Omg!...hevan!!!!...wow!
what a marvellous playground! i wanna go there!
Wow, what a place :) Looks as if one easily could get lost in there :)
man....i could spend months poking around in there. can you imagine taking an inventory of that place? ;->
INVENTORY! hahaha. If its not sold yet it has nil val
Great video! I am grateful to have met you, at an estate sale. (A few weeks ago)
Love to make a trip up there with you. Kevin W, from Michigan. I also haven't had a chance to go to any sales in LC.
Used to be a place like this in Ft. Worth.
When I die I would like to be buried deep in the components please!
I suffer crippling claustrophobia. I could live there. Forever.
I agree, I could find new toys every day in that pile of junk.
Very nice, I thought It was just me filling up my garage with electronic test equipment. As for a hobbyist, not to many years ago, that $$$$$$$ HP test equipment was not obtainable, unless you had very deep pockets. I have been very fortunate to be able to acquired some very good HP stuff these last couple of years. Was that a Heathkit Model IG-5280 RF oscillator? I built a bunch of their kits..
We are very fortunate to be able to pick up this equipment nowadays for prices that we can afford and have much of it still work very well. I can't comment on the Heathkit as I did not notice it. I built Heathkits back in the 1960's also but always wanted better.
Dave, My first near death experience. When I saw the light at the end of one of the isles I thought I saw St. Peter :)
I like that one... we were "blinded by the light".. :-)
I was just there previously today.
Did you go back into his massive stash of equipment and find anything interesting?
Quite literally everything there is interesting, from Apollo 11 communications equipment to every assortment of tubes and oscilloscopes and CRT monitors and video equipment and infinitely more.
Nice diversion, I wish to go to Heaven now... :)
Wow. That needs to be on Google Streetview!
OMG paradise. that place is a trap. hope it never catches fire
@ElPaso TubeAmps El Dorado! That place is like a dream.
It looks like some of the shops where I work at.
I think that I would personally live there if something like this was available in Australia, to my knowledge this sort of thing doesn't exist down under! It's such a pity that American shipping charges cost more than the product itself.... Australia would clear out that warehouse in two days but government's just don't understand how to get the economy moving forward in the right direction...
I agree with you. It is most unfortunate shipping is so expensive between our countries as we are so much alike and so much cheaper shipping between the USA and China.
I really like the fellow that owns this equipment but he wants so much money for everything and ends up selling such a tiny fraction of it, he is basically a hoarder. That is his right and I respect it but I figure the vast majority of this stuff will end up in the landfill (hopefully much of it recycled) as it is way too expensive for the local buyers to pay. Many other places like this have existed in the past decades but they all end up the same.
ElPaso TubeAmps I wonder if it would work out more cost effective if a shipping container was filled and sent over... did you say that you get free or cheap shipping charges from China? if that's the case then we just have to find a Chinese shipping company who can just forward the parcel... because we get free shipping from China even though it takes a good month to get here... Yeah I don't know LoL but what I do know is that there is a market for this in Australia and no one is servicing it... The first person who makes this happen will have that segment of the market all to themselves..... I have seen other videos of swap meets in the US and the prices are crazy cheap compared with the same thing here IF you can find it LoL... You would think as allies our government's would be looking after all of us! But when did the government's ever actually think about the people who put them there in the first place... The world needs more people like Julian Assange to keep the bastards honest... Anyway, I don't really want to get into the politics... I'm not really into tube amplification but I do appreciate it, I like my solid state T03 transistor powered amplifiers and I see a lot in tube amplifiers that would work in solid state... I just watched your video on using audio line transformers as output transformers... I have been thinking of trying out a transformer coupled output solid state amp... I just have to wrap my head around the impedance of primary and secondary sides to know if I can buy one or wind my own? microwave transformers are cheap and no to hard to rewind... old arc welders have some nice and big transformers.... my son got me an arc welder for father's day and I nearly fell over when I opened it up and saw the transformer inside! It's huge! my first thought was tube amplifier! The welder was only $80AU. you literally couldn't get the transformer on it's own for that price LoL... have you ever rewound a transformer? I haven't seen all your videos yet but I'm slowly getting there one at a time LoL..
Haha...this must be Heaven...Exactly what I thought... :)
Whoa.
That's incredible! Had to go get a towel to wipe up the drool. Can anyone go there and buy that stuff? Or do you have to know someone?I think I'd buy that whole Tektronix aisle!
I'm drooling. I'd love to have a wad of cash and a free day!
looks like my back bedroom ( stash room )
That is what my wife says about some of my stuff...
I really need to know how I can reach this place. I'm interested in using some of this stuff in a car build
Here is his website: www.edgardigital.com/
Wow
Can I come too ????!!! ..... 73 from Italy .....
This is just like Apache Reclamation in Phoenix, although your place appears to have better quality.
Wow, that is some hoard!
Looks a little like my favorite surplus place to haunt and hunt in, that's P&T surplus at 198 Abeel st Kingston, N.Y. although its not as narrow aisled and a little smaller, they have lots of GOODIES ! Tim Smythe is the current owner with his son !! I love places like this this !!!! Have a GREAT DAY ------------------ John A bellas KC2UVN
And I thought the yearly "Amateur Radio Flea Market" in Washington State was overwhelming...
drooling
I'm pretty sure I saw a couple of Kaypro II systems, upstairs.
Yeah, I have most all the Kaypro portables...
Can you share exact location in LC. THX, N3ZRR, K5TRW, WA5KYV
Any places like this up north on the east coast?
Why didn't you take me with you. Looks like a fun place. 73's K3NDB
Ive died and gone to heaven!
I'd be buying EL34s and 12AX7s.
Send me email. rjones@edgardigital.com
*.... (SUNDAY JAN 30..2022 ).. NO JOKE .*
How is there prices ? We have a surplus store here in Tacoma, Wa. but he wants an arm and a leg for his items.
Do they sell on the net?
I dont have much on the web. Checkout "Cyberquipment" on eBay...
How are the prices, I sure could use storage bins and drawers!!!
It's open every day. Just got to talk with the owner, Roger. www.edgardigital.com
Hi, I need an HP 410B VTVM. Do you have one for sale? Regards, Francesco IN3XZP
Hi Francesco,
Personally, I do not have a HP 410B VTVM for sale but you might contact the store in this video as he may have one. I do not at the moment, have the information to contact the seller but if you look down in the comments you will see multiple places where his website can be found. Good luck in your search.
Now that it is June, again. Lol
Hi Kevin,
Good to hear from you. I do plan a trip to see Roger soon and see what type of UTC output transformers he has. Email me at my UA-cam email and we can swap numbers and maybe you can go with me when I do travel to LC. Hopefully next week.
TheAudioShop@SBCGlobal.Net
David
Wonderful !! ..... if they asked me if I can choose from a brothel of whores all paid for a month ........ or take to home a dozen pieces of my choice from that warehouse ..... I would immediately choose the second option .... !!
looks just like The Black Hole surplus place here in Los Alamos. sadly it closed not looking after Ed Grothus, the owner, died.
Yep, someday this will all be buried or recycled and the property turned into a parking lot. I know there are (at least, were) some surplus places around Albuquerque that I have been to but its been several years since I have been there.
Nonsense! Ill be here!
It looks like you just finished watching "The Blair Witch Project".
Lots of old obsolete junk. Especially the computer gear. I feel for the family of that guy when he kicks the bucket.
Where in Las Cruces? kd5kzl
It's on Montana street in LC. Look up www.edgardigital.com
Thanks, we have had a couple of places like that in N.E. El Paso, but no longer.
www.edgardigital.com
WHY I LIVE IN ITALY :( :( :( , that place worth a visit, 73 IU3IRR
I need a THD meter
I think the easy way out right now is to download and use free for 30 days the SpectraPlus software.
www.spectraplus.com/Downloads.htm
It displays THD and is pretty good. You may be able to use it with the internal sound card of a laptop or PC but it will likely work better with an outboard USB sound unit. Hope this helps.
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Hi David,
Did you mean when you die and go to HELL, you'll have to fix all of this stuff??? I can just imagine once you get it all repaired, calibrated and cleaned up, everything gets a new hard to find BUG and you have to start over and over and over...
Oh, you have to repair each piece in place in those tight and dusty isles. All you get to work with is a cheap straight and Phillips screwdriver, a pair of pliers, rusty pocket knife and radio shack VOM with a sticking meter and weak batteries. The floors are covered with screws, nails and other miscellaneous hardware and you are barefoot. All spare parts are questionable, the lighting is poor and it's HOT... HOT as HELL...Hi hi
Think I'll start going to church more often!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glenn, I have to admit, you described it best - an eternal extension of how I have to work on many things now. :-) I think I have the hot as hell covered already in the summer sun of El Paso. I was just up on the roof of a house installing a log periodic antenna for TV so I can cancel the satellite and save some money. At least it is below 100 and overcast a bit - pretty rate for the desert. I hear it is never too late (to attend more church...)
grab me 4 5881smatched if you don't mind