Imagine sitting down and talking to a guy like that. That was a man with stories to tell, and wisdom of electronics to impart as well. You could tell this guy was no tinkerer---he didn't "dabble" in electronics, he was the real deal. Great video
justsomeguytoyou Yes too bad shango066 couldn't have gotten an interview with him before he passed, I'm sure he would have been glad to share his experiences at the TV network or station...maybe BOTH.
eBay prices at an estate sale. Classic. Sad thing is, all that stuff that doesn't sell is probably going to wind up at e-waste when the family gets tired of trying to schlepp it off at those prices.
Yeah pretty much like thrift store prices around here too. Except at the thrift store half the stuff is broken or people pocket parts from stuff. Or empty boxes.
EBay on TV!! Such outlandish prices!! BTW - That box of camera tubes for $150 that were made in Holland were Plumbicon tubes. These were color camera tubes developed by Philips to use in their Philips (Norelco) cameras. The letter suffix indicates the color it was for pickup. There were four Pumbicon tubes in the camera. One for each color (R,G,B) and one for the luminence channel. The CBS network in the 60s and 70s extensively used Norelco PC-60 and PC-70 studio color cameras . They stayed away from using RCA cameras as RCA owned rival network NBC.
I thought that those Norelco cameras were three tubes not four . They used the green channel for luminance. "Lumma on the green "was a Phillips trade mark.
4:24 The tube is called an image orthicon tube. I think it's an early TV camera pickup tube. $4500 for a Predicta, AND IT DOESN'T EVEN WORK, and looks like crap. The tube prices weren't too bad. Some of the rest of the prices will take your breath away. Very very cool estate!! This guy had one of everything. Thank you for sharing!!
The transmitter, “KRAP” works well! Has a range of about 8 inches, but am sure can be dialed in better with a little effort. Went 2 for 3 on the transistor radios. The Panasonic and Toshiba will work, but the navigation radio will never navigate again. Good thing I left when I did... there was so much stuff I didn’t notice at the time as I had to leave in a hurry. There were some bargains under the tables and in the bins. A lifetime’s worth of components are still probably unsold in the garage.
Hey! That's a great price for that bulb! I would've paid $100 for it to add to my collection of broken light bulbs. Btw, does anyone out there need a broken bulb? I've got plenty, and I'll give them away for only $30 each. Let me know how many you want. I accept paypal.
@@gustavefrankfurter6462 the proper method to advertise your bulbs is that they are 100% free, but just pay a separate $9.95 shipping and handling charge. But wait there's more... LMAO 😃
That was a very interesting place. The setup for editing analog video was cool. Smiling about the guy who bought the grey Videonics video mixer thinking it was a video game...
One tube AM transmitter looks similar to the kit AES sells. Further along in the video, the battery eliminator looks like an AES kit as well. Nominal filament voltage on those old 20's sets was around 5V.
That old console stand up projection TV looks like the model that was shown t the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York City or New Jersey! If that fella was a CBS engineer for many years or decades MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, that WAS the same set shown at the 1939 Worlds Fair !!!!
Simon Spiers - If your relating to the school bus, it means you must slow down to a certain speed for safety when children are getting on or off the bus. We have it here in Australia as well. We have to by law slow down to 40kms when a school bus has its lights flashing & also when you enter a school zone.
I be crying because I would want a bunch of it,I never seen a collection like that anywhere,isn't better to come back in a day or to when the prices come down .man that guy had everything
bones007able I'm pretty sure that was on another item and when the person bought it they just took off the price tag and stuck it on the bulb as a joke.
Thanks for posting, I was there on the last day. There was still a LOT of stuff in the garage. I picked up that small B&K scope and voltmeter, some tubes and books. Prices were 1/2 as marked more reasonable.
I remember those gold embossed books. They're the reason you'll find an (obtained free) large hardcover of Moby Dick in every home. Then you'll be sent another literary classic every other month......
Epic. Having had to contend with a few deaths recently, I recognise something we can all look forward to. People rummaging and poking through our stuff when we peg it.
OH man I know, before I read your post I thought how awful this is. I am not a young man myself so I wonder will it just be party time for he garbage man when I kick off or will someone make use of all the stuff I collected over the years in a way that would make me happy. Its no so much the monetary value of things. But I loved to tinker and collect, I think this guy did too. Now he's dead, you and I will one day be dead and the rag and bone men will celebrate their luck.
"THE MUSEUM OF POINT-TO-POINT WIRING CRAFTSMANSHIP" +shango066 Your videos are always of excellent quality, however this one will be damn tough to surpass. A bit 'spendy', $495.00 for a '50s Tonfunk Fonovox (Brooklyn importer, mid-range department store equipment). I believe that 45° CRT was a display for an early model RCA TK-series camera (we had two in our high school's TV studio; I had to change a Vidicon in one - after it was left uncapped and locked in position towards lighting). Are you sure this isn't DRH4683's 'western vacation home', that sure as hell looks like Doug's record collection... Horst Jankowski, Percy Faith, Jackie Gleason (Gleason was cool) - time for A Walk in the Black Forest... That EIA Controller was mounted at the video board, and used in conjunction with a scope, to power the camera(s), and set the levels in preview; "get that signal under 2 volts, dammit" - the joys of being the student engineer for a '70s high school "Title VIII Educational TV Station". That guy in Dallas who owns the Telecruiser that processed much of the JFK Assassination live feeds - is looking for DuMont Camera connection blocks, and control cables; CBS did acquire some of that stuff, I wonder if it made it over to Television City from NYC?? They also used older, "ready for discard" monoscope cameras, arranged/fastened to a board/plate, with and 'old junk slide projector', beaming into the lens of the camera, and loaded with "PLEASE STAND-BY", "EYEWITNESS NEWS", "WCBS - TV2", "AND NOW, AN EDITORIAL COMMENT"...... graphics. Damn did I enjoy the hell out of this! I believe Dick Scovel was one of the pioneers of instant replay, and responsible for a lot of the work in video sync stabilization. He was part of a group of engineering's best, who spoke on the college circuit during the '70s and '80s. He spoke at the Columbia School of Journalism in April, 1977; I bagged the lecture - in favor of strolling down 42nd Street...
I have a Pilot II radio that was shown at 11:11. It was my father's. It still works. He used it in his Bronco Ford as his radio until he got a Dodge Truck, early 1970's. I have no idea what he did with the other bands on it but he used to fly a plane when I was very young. It has an AM radio in it.
Too bad most of it will wind up in a landfill because the same people who fail at scamming people with grossly overpriced junk at estate sales like this are the same ones who will pay to haul their failures off to pollute the environment..
She must have looked up every single item on ebay and trading sites and went with the highest price found. Although, I can't even fathom where she came up with 40 bucks for that freaking light bulb!
Saw Chris's also, thanks for uploading this. Really enjoyed both videos very much. I'm sure you will make good use of John F. Rider's "The Perpetual Troubleshooter's Manual".
WHAT ARE THESE PRICES? I always seem to stumble upon places like these. I rarely find sales with actual vintage electronics that I want and most of the time they're selling them at "I looked it up online" prices. Absolutely ridiculous. I'll never understand why they spent all the time looking up prices and labeling things and set up a sale, only to overprice everything to hell and back. Waste of time in my opinion. At that point it's basically just a free walk-through of a museum with nice oddities no one will buy.
The reason you find the things you want is that they're outrageously overpriced. If it was a good deal it would already be gone. There's almost no chance of finding interesting stuff if it's in a public, popular place. Sometimes you may come across a good deal if you're here early and the owner doesn't think he has the Mona Lisa because it's old gear. More often than not I got the best stuff in my collection from craigslist sellers, who show me some unlisted equipement because they see I'm into old electronics: that's how I recently got a working Hickok TV-7 for peanuts What annoys me with these pricing is that you can't reason these people and by the time they realize they won't be able to sell their old radio for $200, it will probably end up in the trash. WHY?
If you can tell from the ad that the sellers “THINK they know what they have,” just don’t go (definitely not in SoCal) if you’re looking to buy and can’t deal with disappointment. This is CLEARLY that sale. But hey, admission is free and they don’t let you twist the knobs on stuff at a museum.
half of it's to pay the sale company, and the other because it's (Sir) Richard Scovel's shit, and lots of it has been very well maintained and is cherry. Look at all the lab equipment! that's what ya really want anyhow and those are fractional prices probably.
so true here were i live its the same...they ask 200€ fro a grundig tube radio in miserable condition, if it pick up a station or two they say its "working" and if you offer them a fair 20 or 30€ they insult you and after some time of having it listed if they dont sell it it goes to the dump...its sad...people prefer to thorow away the stuff because they get jealous thinking that you will be making a super deal or that you will resell and make huge amounts of money
They price that way because they fully intend to mark everything down 50% off on sunday. It's the unwritten rule. I see it at most estate sales I go to. Sunday is the best day to go.
I took a quick peek at the guy's IMDb page, looks like he worked on a number of the Three's Company TV shows among others. Very interesting sale, and I've been looking for a burned out 40 watt light bulb, but I wouldn't pay a penny over $35 though.
3:11 40 dollar light bulb 6:56 quarter of a thousand dollars 19:28 Guy turns on vacuum giving everyone asthma 20:55 guy yelling i got mo money 23:42 HEY JEFF My phone is messed up 44:45 wtf moment
Cool video Shango! 100 bucks for Pilot wasn't all that bad compared to some I've seen on ebay. Then some of the test equipment was through the roof, $100 for the heathkit IT-11 capacitor checker is crazy high. I would have loved to have known what the Tektronix shack heater oscilloscope was going for.
a lot of great stuff,not weather beaten,priced outrageously high,the lady maybe paid delinquent taxes for the property & thinks to make it all up in this estate sale
Crazy prices, but a Simpson 260 for $15 is definitely worth it. A Halicrafters SX-28 in as good a shape as that one is for $250 is a very good price too.
And speaking of CBS, I heard that WCBS “Newsradio 88” in New York City has gone EOL. It was replaced by ESPN Radio as a sports station. How sad? I listened to the final moments of the station where Wayne Cabot played a montage of jingles and news sounders from WCBS during the last 57 years. Sad to see an iconic radio station go. It has been on 880AM going way back to 1924 as WABC (not the other station that is on 770AM), and then WCBS from 1946 until the very end. Both FM and TV stations will remain on both 101.1 and channel 2 will still be using WCBS for now.
weird, I went to a sale Sunday from a NBC tech and ham radio operator in Northern Virginia. This was the day that everything was free and the next day all goes to the dump. Could not believe how much stuff was there ( and was told that there was a ton of stuff that had already been sold. Pick up some odds and ends, but OMG was there a loy of old stuff.
well now i don't feel so bad. went to a estate sale like this paid $75 for a 1939 philco highboy console with the 112 eleven tube chassis never restored but couldn't afford the vintage oscilloscopes. around here boxes of vacuum tubes are free on craigslist.
I know you won't believe this at 8yrs old neighbor had a 3in pilot and sometimes a dozen people showed up to watch . Broadcast was spotty mostly weekends was 70yrs ago only tv in town . Well worth 80$ never see another.
$15 for the Simpson meter is a great price. I'm looking at my test bench and I have that same signal tracer. I also have the same Geiger counter (the yellow one). I got it after watching 1950's sci-fi movies on "Monsters HD on dish network. Needed it so I could scan the mutants when they came in from the dead zone. I think it was $35, could have sold it for $700 after the Fukashima meltdown when everyone was in a panic. Didn't sell it though, cause well, the whole mutant thing...
It use to be fun collecting and restoring this stuff but now the I know what it goes for on ebay people have taken over. Surprised they didn't charge admission.
The pot shaped image tube was an Iconoscope. Because it scanned the target at an angle from the front, it produced a trapezoidal picture and was corrected for in the scanning circuits.
My guess on how they priced everything, is they made a bunch of random value price tags, threw them in a hat; Then walked to an item, reach in to the hat, whatever the value on the tag is now the set price of that item. Laughable!
40 dollars for every non-existent watt. I got a medium-sized box-full of various tubes for 5 bucks, at a civil-was reenactment of all things! I asked them if it was 5 each, they asked what the card said and it was marked "Tubes $5" and that turned out to mean 5 for all! (list below for the curious, it takes up 1 page at 1280 by 1024) Thanks for the tour, lots of intriguing gizmos and whatzits! I suppose if you felt it worthwhile or wanted some fun you could dub in commentary on all the stuff you looked, I'm sure it would be educational for us watchers! The list (capitolized I's are count-marks, I got the descriptions from google): 1X2A/1X2B - I HALF WAVE RECTIFIER 7AU7 - II Double Triode, like a 12AU7 with a 7 volt filament. 6DS5 - I Beam Power Tube 6CB6A - IIIIIIII short cut-off high impedance voltage amplifier pentode. 6BZ7/6BQ7A - IIIIIIIII Dual Triode 6AU8A - IIII Triode-Pentode 6CS6 - I HEPTODE 6BQ7A - II TWIN TRIODE. FOR VHF CASCODE AMPLIFIER APPLICATIONS. 6HS8 - I Sharp-Cutoff Twin Pentocle. With Common Cathode. 6CL6 - I Power Pentode 6J6 - II Double Triode 6AW8A - III Triode-Pentode 6JW8/ECF802 - I Triode-Pentode Receiving Tube 12AU7A - IIII Double Triode 6AU6 - III PENTODE AMPLIFIER 8FQ7/8CG7 - I Medium-Mu Twin Triode used for direct-coupled cathode-drive RF amplifier in television VHF tuner applications. 10GN8 - I Power Triode-Pentode 6AN8 - II Triode-Pentode 6BE6 - I Pentagrid-Converter (Heptode) 3DT6 - I dual-control pentode primarily intended for use as an FM detector in television receivers . 6CU5 - I beam-power pentode primarily designed for use in the audio-frequency power-output stage of radio receivers. 6T8A - I Triple Diode-Triode 6X8/A - I Triode-Pentode 6CB6 - IIII Vacuum Pentode beam power RF/IF-Stage. 12BY7A - I Beam Power Tube used as a video amplifier in TV receivers. 6AF4 - III UHF OSCILLATOR TRIODE. 12AX7 - I Twin Triode Preamp 6BL8/ECF80 - I medium mu triode, sharp cutoff pentode. 3BZ6 - I Semi Remote cut off Pentode. 6AH6 - I Sharp cut off RF Pentode. 3CB6 - IIII pentode designed for use as a radio-frequency or intermediate- frequency amplifier in television receivers. 3CS6 - I HEPTODE 12B4A - I low-mu triode designed primarily for service as a vertical-deflection amplifier in televisions 6U8A - II Medium-Mu Triode + Sharp-Cutoff Pentode 6U8 - I Medium-Mu Triode + Sharp-Cutoff Pentode 6S4A - I Medium-Mu Triode FOR TV VERTICAL-DEFLECTION AMPLIFIER APPLICATIONS. 3BC5 - I sharp cutoff pentode designed for use as IF amplifiers in television receivers. 6JC6A - I Sharp-Cutoff Pentode. 12CA5 - I Beam Power Tube. 6AG5 - I low power amplifier beam tetrode 6AM8A - I Diode-Pentode used as an IF amplifier, video amplifier, or AGC in a television receiver. 6AB4 - I High-Mu Triode used as a mixer, amplifier or oscillator in VHF television receivers. 12CU5 - I Beam Power Tube 5CG8 - I Triode-Pentode - medium mu triode (mu=40) with a sharp cutoff pentode (2w max). 6B8A - I 1U5 - I Diode sharp-cutoff pentode used as combined detector and AF voltage amplifier in lightweight, compact, portable, battery-operated receivers. 6AL5 - I Double Diode used as a detector in FM and TV circuits, a low-current rectifier, or an automatic gain control rectifier. Frequency of about 700 megacycles. unknown/unmarked - I BIG TUBES: 5U4GB - I TWIN DIODE Full-Wave Vacuum Rectifier 50L6GT - I Beam Power Amplifier - audio output beam tetrode 1G31B3 - I high-voltage rectifier for TV use 6AX4GTB - I Diode Half-Wave Vacuum Rectifier For Television Damper Service. Most of these I have little use for and lack any way to test. Everything came with boxes, but not always the right ones, so I've no idea what is new or used. Was hoping to have some stuff that would be applicable to the few tube units I have around, but few are.
24:10 That looks like a 1967 Zenith Discoverer B&W tv. I was 8 years old when I got that model tv for Christmas. I think it sold new for about $100. A very expensive gift for an 8 year old in 1967. I got a lot of enjoyment out of that TV. 4:17 (What the hell kind of vacuum bulb is this?). Looks like an iconoscope; very early television camera pickup tube.
I can't decide if you guys remind me more of cheech and chong, or bob and teds great adventure. I really enjoyed you two demonstrating that our youth really are clueless. God help you if the EMP comes.
umajunkcollector Retired from his job, or retired from UA-cam altogether? I miss him so damn much. He was a big part of my early awakening to retro electronics.
A bunch of tubers kinda quit making vids, but some hang out on Fakebook. BAndersenTV, ScottTV1962, glasslinger, oldradioal, Chris Cuff, ClydeSight, SpeakerFreak95, batterymaker, lockemeister, and even buzz1151 cut way down on production.
Mega prices on everyday items,and cheap prices on the good stuff. so? so.Retail on a lot of stuff,$5 for tubes that may or may not work.Wow,a lot of potential there. Good video,like these little excursions.👍🔌🔌
Wow...iconoscope camera tube @ 4:26 with the side spigot running off at an angle...I bet this guy knew Zworykin, maybe Philo Farnsworth. I lived in LA in the 80's and worked selling & engineering TV broadcast gear. There were older guys around; guys who had worked at NBC in the 40's & 50's, who had assortments of old, old gear like that. The amount of gear (in terms of sheer tonnage and size) that was necessary to capture and transmit video was just ghastly. Sync generators requiring half a 6 foot rack. That old RCA stuff on the brown chassis. A typical camera required maybe 2 racks of gear, with giant cables going to the cameras. And hundreds and hundreds of CONRAC monitors. I loved it, though was in no hurry to want to own any of it. It was a glorious time for me, as I was making great money selling astronomically expensive gear.
Imagine sitting down and talking to a guy like that. That was a man with stories to tell, and wisdom of electronics to impart as well. You could tell this guy was no tinkerer---he didn't "dabble" in electronics, he was the real deal. Great video
justsomeguytoyou
Yes too bad shango066 couldn't have gotten an interview with him before he passed, I'm sure he would have been glad to share his experiences at the TV network or station...maybe BOTH.
eBay prices at an estate sale. Classic. Sad thing is, all that stuff that doesn't sell is probably going to wind up at e-waste when the family gets tired of trying to schlepp it off at those prices.
Estate sales always start out at the obscene prices on Friday. Same stuff on Sunday (if av), they are throwing it in the car for you.
Yeah pretty much like thrift store prices around here too. Except at the thrift store half the stuff is broken or people pocket parts from stuff. Or empty boxes.
EBay on TV!! Such outlandish prices!! BTW - That box of camera tubes for $150 that were made in Holland were Plumbicon tubes. These were color camera tubes developed by Philips to use in their Philips (Norelco) cameras. The letter suffix indicates the color it was for pickup. There were four Pumbicon tubes in the camera. One for each color (R,G,B) and one for the luminence channel. The CBS network in the 60s and 70s extensively used Norelco PC-60 and PC-70 studio color cameras . They stayed away from using RCA cameras as RCA owned rival network NBC.
I thought that those Norelco cameras were three tubes not four . They used the green channel for luminance. "Lumma on the green "was a Phillips trade mark.
Our Bosch Fernseh cameras down under here used the good old Plumbicon tubes, built in 1975 and were in use right up till 1993.
Thanks for saving the CBS Hollywood pattern generator. I saw that you got it to the early tv museum. Congrats!
4:24 The tube is called an image orthicon tube. I think it's an early TV camera pickup tube. $4500 for a Predicta, AND IT DOESN'T EVEN WORK, and looks like crap. The tube prices weren't too bad. Some of the rest of the prices will take your breath away. Very very cool estate!! This guy had one of everything. Thank you for sharing!!
are you sure it isn't an Iconoscope ?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoscope see pictures on right side about half way down Type 1849
"A quarter of a thousand dollars", I gotta use that line for something in the future.
The transmitter, “KRAP” works well! Has a range of about 8 inches, but am sure can be dialed in better with a little effort. Went 2 for 3 on the transistor radios. The Panasonic and Toshiba will work, but the navigation radio will never navigate again.
Good thing I left when I did... there was so much stuff I didn’t notice at the time as I had to leave in a hurry. There were some bargains under the tables and in the bins. A lifetime’s worth of components are still probably unsold in the garage.
Did you buy that KRAP transmitter? That unit is so cool looking.
Piece of "krap" LOL
According to his IMDB profile, Richard Scovel worked on "Three's Company" and "Archie Bunker's Place".
It's a sad day when this happens. There's so much there that deserves to be in a museum.
$40 for a burnt out bulb ?! they have got to be joking. Lots of stuff looks much overpriced. Great video.
RODALCO2007 agreed. Way over priced.
RODALCO2007
Looks like they are just inflating the prices and expecting people to haggle them down. The bulb is a joke I'm sure.
Hey! That's a great price for that bulb! I would've paid $100 for it to add to my collection of broken light bulbs. Btw, does anyone out there need a broken bulb? I've got plenty, and I'll give them away for only $30 each. Let me know how many you want. I accept paypal.
@@gustavefrankfurter6462 the proper method to advertise your bulbs is that they are 100% free, but just pay a separate $9.95 shipping and handling charge. But wait there's more... LMAO 😃
but its vintage!!!!!!!!!!
It is all relative! What is priceless to someone is trash to another. It will never change. Neither will gripes about it!
thats right no matter what the price people will ALWAYS want to pay less ..
That was a very interesting place. The setup for editing analog video was cool. Smiling about the guy who bought the grey Videonics video mixer thinking it was a video game...
I'm glad to see you here.
DrCassette
I wonder if he worked for the O&O local KNXT/KCBS or the CBS Network or both?
OMG all that vintage test equipment!!!!
Incredible collection .. This is what I pictured the Shango cave looking like ..
"The chassis is made out of cardboard" - STOP IT, I'm still laughing an hour later.
Thanks for the video.
One tube AM transmitter looks similar to the kit AES sells. Further along in the video, the battery eliminator looks like an AES kit as well. Nominal filament voltage on those old 20's sets was around 5V.
www.tubesandmore.com/products/kit-wireless-transmitter
www.tubesandmore.com/products/kit-power-supply
I remember this sale, it was at 311 Takethepiss Street, Yourehavingalaughsville.
That old console stand up projection TV looks like the model that was shown t the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York City or New Jersey! If that fella was a CBS engineer for many years or decades MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, that WAS the same set shown at the 1939 Worlds Fair !!!!
OK, I'll stop complaining about estate sale prices in my area.
Amazing collection, very early sets. I would lose my mind in that place!
Here we have! Cracking up Shango.
Simon Spiers - He does that so well too.
He does. What does the flashing red light mean on the Chad mobile?
Simon Spiers - If your relating to the school bus, it means you must slow down to a certain speed for safety when children are getting on or off the bus. We have it here in Australia as well. We have to by law slow down to 40kms when a school bus has its lights flashing & also when you enter a school zone.
Thanks Corinna. Thought it was something like that.
Simon Spiers - Thankyou for being nice to me. I just got rudely told off for no reason by someone on here! :(
Its obvious the person pricing doesn't know a damn thing of what they're selling. Pricing all over the place.
"12AU7, surprised a fight hasn't broken out in here over that.." haha ain't that the damn truth
I be crying because I would want a bunch of it,I never seen a collection like that anywhere,isn't better to come back in a day or to when the prices come down .man that guy had everything
I liked the "Am Rich, I'm rich..." part. This guy has some gr8 stuff. Nice video.
It's amazing people understand all this. Interesting to watch.
Great Video as always, you definitely gotta make a video of the haul you took out of this place.
$40 bucks for a burned out lightbulb?.......might better go back on the last day... maybe pick it up out of the garbage can....
that was pretty goofy.
bones007able
I'm pretty sure that was on another item and when the person bought it they just took off the price tag and stuck it on the bulb as a joke.
15k$? and it doesn't work! Hay shango066, slip a biz card inside it, for future repairs, will make a great EOL vid, aye.
Always look in the attic, you should have to find the vent for the big tv transmitter for the underground station
That battery eliminator and the AM transmitter are both kits that were offered by Antique Electronic Supply.
You could probably get the price down to nothing on the high voltage probe by telling them it's a rectal thermometer for an elephant.
15:28 - An idea: How about 'voicing over' commentary on this footage in the privacy of your own home :)
That's a good idea
I agree. If any situation needed your rant, this one is ideal! I LOVE your rants.
I would've gone back on garbage day and loaded up a U-Haul truck with the stuff that was so overpriced that it didn't sell. That's how I roll.
Thanks for taking us along shango066, some great items there
never find anything like that here in nova scotia on canada's east coast maybe time to move to L.A
31:48 "I am Y2K compliant" hat. Beautiful
Thanks for posting, I was there on the last day. There was still a LOT of stuff in the garage. I picked up that small B&K scope and voltmeter, some tubes and books. Prices were 1/2 as marked more reasonable.
I remember those gold embossed books. They're the reason you'll find an (obtained free) large hardcover of Moby Dick in every home. Then you'll be sent another literary classic every other month......
Epic. Having had to contend with a few deaths recently, I recognise something we can all look forward to. People rummaging and poking through our stuff when we peg it.
OH man I know, before I read your post I thought how awful this is.
I am not a young man myself so I wonder will it just be party time for he garbage man when I kick off or will someone make use of all the stuff I collected over the years in a way that would make me happy.
Its no so much the monetary value of things.
But I loved to tinker and collect, I think this guy did too.
Now he's dead, you and I will one day be dead and the rag and bone men will celebrate their luck.
You should have bought that dancing Santa Clause to go with that singing fish you bought.
thanks for the video I really enjoyed it. I like the old electronics
The strange kind of CRT is not a a display device but a capture device from early TV cameras.
It’s an Iconoscope camera tube.
@@ronmccaskill2358 Yup. The original RCA or Westinghouse Vladimir Zworykyn camera tube for sake of "all electronic" TV system.
picking the bones of someone who lived a real life.
"THE MUSEUM OF POINT-TO-POINT WIRING CRAFTSMANSHIP"
+shango066 Your videos are always of excellent quality, however this one will be damn tough to surpass. A bit 'spendy', $495.00 for a '50s Tonfunk Fonovox (Brooklyn importer, mid-range department store equipment). I believe that 45° CRT was a display for an early model RCA TK-series camera (we had two in our high school's TV studio; I had to change a Vidicon in one - after it was left uncapped and locked in position towards lighting). Are you sure this isn't DRH4683's 'western vacation home', that sure as hell looks like Doug's record collection... Horst Jankowski, Percy Faith, Jackie Gleason (Gleason was cool) - time for A Walk in the Black Forest...
That EIA Controller was mounted at the video board, and used in conjunction with a scope, to power the camera(s), and set the levels in preview; "get that signal under 2 volts, dammit" - the joys of being the student engineer for a '70s high school "Title VIII Educational TV Station". That guy in Dallas who owns the Telecruiser that processed much of the JFK Assassination live feeds - is looking for DuMont Camera connection blocks, and control cables; CBS did acquire some of that stuff, I wonder if it made it over to Television City from NYC??
They also used older, "ready for discard" monoscope cameras, arranged/fastened to a board/plate, with and 'old junk slide projector', beaming into the lens of the camera, and loaded with "PLEASE STAND-BY", "EYEWITNESS NEWS", "WCBS - TV2", "AND NOW, AN EDITORIAL COMMENT"...... graphics.
Damn did I enjoy the hell out of this!
I believe Dick Scovel was one of the pioneers of instant replay, and responsible for a lot of the work in video sync stabilization. He was part of a group of engineering's best, who spoke on the college circuit during the '70s and '80s. He spoke at the Columbia School of Journalism in April, 1977; I bagged the lecture - in favor of strolling down 42nd Street...
I have a Pilot II radio that was shown at 11:11. It was my father's. It still works. He used it in his Bronco Ford as his radio until he got a Dodge Truck, early 1970's. I have no idea what he did with the other bands on it but he used to fly a plane when I was very young. It has an AM radio in it.
Omg the prices. Someone wants get rich quick.
Too bad most of it will wind up in a landfill because the same people who fail at scamming people with grossly overpriced junk at estate sales like this are the same ones who will pay to haul their failures off to pollute the environment..
ElfNet Designs So true
Sadly, she was probably looking forward to the day of his demise for quite some time knowing what he had.
Wonder how much of that stuff goes to the dump after nobody is willing to pay eBay prices for it
I didnt think of that... gives me chills
She must have looked up every single item on ebay and trading sites and went with the highest price found. Although, I can't even fathom where she came up with 40 bucks for that freaking light bulb!
Saw Chris's also, thanks for uploading this. Really enjoyed both videos very much. I'm sure you will make good use of John F. Rider's "The Perpetual Troubleshooter's Manual".
WHAT ARE THESE PRICES? I always seem to stumble upon places like these. I rarely find sales with actual vintage electronics that I want and most of the time they're selling them at "I looked it up online" prices. Absolutely ridiculous.
I'll never understand why they spent all the time looking up prices and labeling things and set up a sale, only to overprice everything to hell and back. Waste of time in my opinion. At that point it's basically just a free walk-through of a museum with nice oddities no one will buy.
The reason you find the things you want is that they're outrageously overpriced. If it was a good deal it would already be gone. There's almost no chance of finding interesting stuff if it's in a public, popular place. Sometimes you may come across a good deal if you're here early and the owner doesn't think he has the Mona Lisa because it's old gear. More often than not I got the best stuff in my collection from craigslist sellers, who show me some unlisted equipement because they see I'm into old electronics: that's how I recently got a working Hickok TV-7 for peanuts
What annoys me with these pricing is that you can't reason these people and by the time they realize they won't be able to sell their old radio for $200, it will probably end up in the trash. WHY?
If you can tell from the ad that the sellers “THINK they know what they have,” just don’t go (definitely not in SoCal) if you’re looking to buy and can’t deal with disappointment. This is CLEARLY that sale. But hey, admission is free and they don’t let you twist the knobs on stuff at a museum.
half of it's to pay the sale company, and the other because it's (Sir) Richard Scovel's shit, and lots of it has been very well maintained and is cherry. Look at all the lab equipment! that's what ya really want anyhow and those are fractional prices probably.
so true here were i live its the same...they ask 200€ fro a grundig tube radio in miserable condition, if it pick up a station or two they say its "working" and if you offer them a fair 20 or 30€ they insult you and after some time of having it listed if they dont sell it it goes to the dump...its sad...people prefer to thorow away the stuff because they get jealous thinking that you will be making a super deal or that you will resell and make huge amounts of money
They price that way because they fully intend to mark everything down 50% off on sunday. It's the unwritten rule. I see it at most estate sales I go to. Sunday is the best day to go.
I liked the 1980's Worldstar radio at 10:28. I have a similar one that works great. But $30 for an '80's Hong Kong radio, come on now!
That's clinco-snorculicious! I love that one!
I took a quick peek at the guy's IMDb page, looks like he worked on a number of the Three's Company TV shows among others. Very interesting sale, and I've been looking for a burned out 40 watt light bulb, but I wouldn't pay a penny over $35 though.
I hope you got the old crystal set.50$ was a little high but what a cool old set.
3:11 40 dollar light bulb
6:56 quarter of a thousand dollars
19:28 Guy turns on vacuum giving everyone asthma
20:55 guy yelling i got mo money
23:42 HEY JEFF My phone is messed up
44:45 wtf moment
Whooooopie!!!!!!!!!!!! New shango, my blues have been cleared away.
Really interesting vintage stuff!
wish Chad was still putting out videos..He is eclectic..and talented...miss his stuff
Look forward to watching next vlog using the finds you picked up🙌
Cool video Shango!
100 bucks for Pilot wasn't all that bad compared to some I've seen on ebay. Then some of the test equipment was through the roof, $100 for the heathkit IT-11 capacitor checker is crazy high.
I would have loved to have known what the Tektronix shack heater oscilloscope was going for.
$15,000 They are out of their Gourd !
That may be worth that as it's very rare
You should’ve gotten the “Murder By Television” poster.
a lot of great stuff,not weather beaten,priced outrageously high,the lady maybe paid delinquent taxes for the property & thinks to make it all up in this estate sale
I love that AM transmitter. I wonder what ever became of it.
Crazy prices, but a Simpson 260 for $15 is definitely worth it. A Halicrafters SX-28 in as good a shape as that one is for $250 is a very good price too.
And speaking of CBS, I heard that WCBS “Newsradio 88” in New York City has gone EOL. It was replaced by ESPN Radio as a sports station. How sad? I listened to the final moments of the station where Wayne Cabot played a montage of jingles and news sounders from WCBS during the last 57 years. Sad to see an iconic radio station go. It has been on 880AM going way back to 1924 as WABC (not the other station that is on 770AM), and then WCBS from 1946 until the very end. Both FM and TV stations will remain on both 101.1 and channel 2 will still be using WCBS for now.
Oh they hired one of those estate companies That explains a lot. They price things so high it ends up in the trash anyway.
I am now saving all 40w light bulbs
Great video
I think Shango should do a video solely of his unique vocabulary and words.real good,wish I could remember some!
weird, I went to a sale Sunday from a NBC tech and ham radio operator in Northern Virginia. This was the day that everything was free and the next day all goes to the dump. Could not believe how much stuff was there ( and was told that there was a ton of stuff that had already been sold. Pick up some odds and ends, but OMG was there a loy of old stuff.
Not simple people, just the brain power to manage and know all the stuff is incredible
34:53 - New-old stock 'firecracker' electrolytics in the box!
well now i don't feel so bad. went to a estate sale like this paid $75 for a 1939 philco highboy console with the 112 eleven tube chassis never restored but couldn't afford the vintage oscilloscopes. around here boxes of vacuum tubes are free on craigslist.
32:00 Those parts bins full of parts for $10-$12 were a bargain. Not much else was.
those are a gold mine at estate sales.
The Guitologist agreed
Yeah, I would have scooped ALL that stuff up. The parts, to a tech/restorer are worth their weight.
You mean a quarter of $40-50!
klinkosnorkulicious
NIce! I would have grabbed that civil defence geiger counter.
Mr. Helwig, I actually have one and every three months l take it out of its box put fresh batteries in and test it. I know, l need to get a life.
Now i know why there are no AM transmitters for old car radios. Damn that was huge
I know you won't believe this at 8yrs old neighbor had a 3in pilot and sometimes a dozen people showed up to watch . Broadcast was spotty mostly weekends was 70yrs ago only tv in town . Well worth 80$ never see another.
You should do your rant so your viewers can hear it!!!! LOL
$10 for each reel-to-reel tape? I'm rich too!
$15 for the Simpson meter is a great price. I'm looking at my test bench and I have that same signal tracer. I also have the same Geiger counter (the yellow one). I got it after watching 1950's sci-fi movies on "Monsters HD on dish network. Needed it so I could scan the mutants when they came in from the dead zone. I think it was $35, could have sold it for $700 after the Fukashima meltdown when everyone was in a panic. Didn't sell it though, cause well, the whole mutant thing...
It's really incredible!
It use to be fun collecting and restoring this stuff but now the I know what it goes for on ebay people have taken over. Surprised they didn't charge admission.
“These look like ham radio operator types” 😂😂😂
You cannot beat a WELLER 820OD, needs the bulbs also, Remember you hate Crosley's
The pot shaped image tube was an Iconoscope. Because it scanned the target at an angle from the front, it produced a trapezoidal picture and was corrected for in the scanning circuits.
I wonder what you were thinking when you found the Neon Indicators drawer?Mechanical Televisor?Nightlight?
My guess on how they priced everything, is they made a bunch of random value price tags, threw them in a hat; Then walked to an item, reach in to the hat, whatever the value on the tag is now the set price of that item. Laughable!
40 dollars for every non-existent watt. I got a medium-sized box-full of various tubes for 5 bucks, at a civil-was reenactment of all things! I asked them if it was 5 each, they asked what the card said and it was marked "Tubes $5" and that turned out to mean 5 for all! (list below for the curious, it takes up 1 page at 1280 by 1024) Thanks for the tour, lots of intriguing gizmos and whatzits! I suppose if you felt it worthwhile or wanted some fun you could dub in commentary on all the stuff you looked, I'm sure it would be educational for us watchers!
The list (capitolized I's are count-marks, I got the descriptions from google):
1X2A/1X2B - I HALF WAVE RECTIFIER
7AU7 - II Double Triode, like a 12AU7 with a 7 volt filament.
6DS5 - I Beam Power Tube
6CB6A - IIIIIIII short cut-off high impedance voltage amplifier pentode.
6BZ7/6BQ7A - IIIIIIIII Dual Triode
6AU8A - IIII Triode-Pentode
6CS6 - I HEPTODE
6BQ7A - II TWIN TRIODE. FOR VHF CASCODE AMPLIFIER APPLICATIONS.
6HS8 - I Sharp-Cutoff Twin Pentocle. With Common Cathode.
6CL6 - I Power Pentode
6J6 - II Double Triode
6AW8A - III Triode-Pentode
6JW8/ECF802 - I Triode-Pentode Receiving Tube
12AU7A - IIII Double Triode
6AU6 - III PENTODE AMPLIFIER
8FQ7/8CG7 - I Medium-Mu Twin Triode used for direct-coupled cathode-drive RF amplifier in television VHF tuner applications.
10GN8 - I Power Triode-Pentode
6AN8 - II Triode-Pentode
6BE6 - I Pentagrid-Converter (Heptode)
3DT6 - I dual-control pentode primarily intended for use as an FM detector in television receivers .
6CU5 - I beam-power pentode primarily designed for use in the audio-frequency power-output stage of radio receivers.
6T8A - I Triple Diode-Triode
6X8/A - I Triode-Pentode
6CB6 - IIII Vacuum Pentode beam power RF/IF-Stage.
12BY7A - I Beam Power Tube used as a video amplifier in TV receivers.
6AF4 - III UHF OSCILLATOR TRIODE.
12AX7 - I Twin Triode Preamp
6BL8/ECF80 - I medium mu triode, sharp cutoff pentode.
3BZ6 - I Semi Remote cut off Pentode.
6AH6 - I Sharp cut off RF Pentode.
3CB6 - IIII pentode designed for use as a radio-frequency or intermediate- frequency amplifier in television receivers.
3CS6 - I HEPTODE
12B4A - I low-mu triode designed primarily for service as a vertical-deflection amplifier in televisions
6U8A - II Medium-Mu Triode + Sharp-Cutoff Pentode
6U8 - I Medium-Mu Triode + Sharp-Cutoff Pentode
6S4A - I Medium-Mu Triode FOR TV VERTICAL-DEFLECTION AMPLIFIER APPLICATIONS.
3BC5 - I sharp cutoff pentode designed for use as IF amplifiers in television receivers.
6JC6A - I Sharp-Cutoff Pentode.
12CA5 - I Beam Power Tube.
6AG5 - I low power amplifier beam tetrode
6AM8A - I Diode-Pentode used as an IF amplifier, video amplifier, or AGC in a television receiver.
6AB4 - I High-Mu Triode used as a mixer, amplifier or oscillator in VHF television receivers.
12CU5 - I Beam Power Tube
5CG8 - I Triode-Pentode - medium mu triode (mu=40) with a sharp cutoff pentode (2w max).
6B8A - I
1U5 - I Diode sharp-cutoff pentode used as combined detector and AF voltage amplifier in lightweight, compact, portable, battery-operated receivers.
6AL5 - I Double Diode used as a detector in FM and TV circuits, a low-current rectifier, or an automatic gain control rectifier. Frequency of about 700 megacycles.
unknown/unmarked - I
BIG TUBES:
5U4GB - I TWIN DIODE Full-Wave Vacuum Rectifier
50L6GT - I Beam Power Amplifier - audio output beam tetrode
1G31B3 - I high-voltage rectifier for TV use
6AX4GTB - I Diode Half-Wave Vacuum Rectifier For Television Damper Service.
Most of these I have little use for and lack any way to test. Everything came with boxes, but not always the right ones, so I've no idea what is new or used. Was hoping to have some stuff that would be applicable to the few tube units I have around, but few are.
24:10 That looks like a 1967 Zenith Discoverer B&W tv. I was 8 years old when I got that model tv for Christmas. I think it sold new for about $100. A very expensive gift for an 8 year old in 1967. I got a lot of enjoyment out of that TV.
4:17 (What the hell kind of vacuum bulb is this?). Looks like an iconoscope; very early television camera pickup tube.
Awe man, I would have loved to go to this sale!!!
I can't decide if you guys remind me more of cheech and chong, or bob and teds great adventure. I really enjoyed you two demonstrating that our youth really are clueless. God help you if the EMP comes.
0:42 - The fake TV picture is upside-down!
David Perkins I wasn't gonna say anything lol
The people running the sale are idiots
That transmit pole in the back yard should have given you a clue what to look for
$40 for a 40w bulb, that is what the government pays ;)
Blown no less. The government would say "It's tested, so that's a premium"
Looks like someone switched price tags actually.
sure it wasnt 40 cents?!
More like $400 for government.
Here we have. Gets me every time!
retrochad replied to me on fakebook, he's retired.
BS
Retro Electronics and Audio Labs on Fakebook, look it up.
facebook.com/Retro-Electronics-and-Audio-Lab-131172393655488/
umajunkcollector
Retired from his job, or retired from UA-cam altogether? I miss him so damn much. He was a big part of my early awakening to retro electronics.
A bunch of tubers kinda quit making vids, but some hang out on Fakebook. BAndersenTV, ScottTV1962, glasslinger, oldradioal, Chris Cuff, ClydeSight, SpeakerFreak95, batterymaker, lockemeister, and even buzz1151 cut way down on production.
umajunkcollector
Is retrochad still active there or anywhere? I mean he literally hasn't posted a video in like 8 years.
Mega prices on everyday items,and cheap prices on the good stuff. so? so.Retail on a lot of stuff,$5 for tubes that may or may not work.Wow,a lot of potential there. Good video,like these little excursions.👍🔌🔌
Wow...iconoscope camera tube @ 4:26 with the side spigot running off at an angle...I bet this guy knew Zworykin, maybe Philo Farnsworth. I lived in LA in the 80's and worked selling & engineering TV broadcast gear. There were older guys around; guys who had worked at NBC in the 40's & 50's, who had assortments of old, old gear like that. The amount of gear (in terms of sheer tonnage and size) that was necessary to capture and transmit video was just ghastly. Sync generators requiring half a 6 foot rack. That old RCA stuff on the brown chassis. A typical camera required maybe 2 racks of gear, with giant cables going to the cameras. And hundreds and hundreds of CONRAC monitors. I loved it, though was in no hurry to want to own any of it. It was a glorious time for me, as I was making great money selling astronomically expensive gear.
Come on, Shango! You made a big fuss over the Pilot TV-37, but completely IGNORED the iconic Hallicrafters SX-28 sitting next to it. Duh! ;-)
@34:54 I see a few CRT brighteners but the problem is if you have to use any of those then the CRT is pretty much at the end of its useful life.
8:36 RCA Victor 630TS. First mass produced post war tv set. Hope you snagged it.
What a wonderful room!!