Garage Sale Bargains in Vintage Electronic Gear
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- čas přidán 28. 10. 2014
- One hindrance to collecting, repairing, and scratch-building vintage tube amplifiers is the cost of components. Fortunately, the general public is not aware of this fact. As a result, great bargains are still available at garage sales, estate sales, and on Craigslist. In this video, I review three very nice vintage tube amplifiers that were recently purchased locally at very reasonable prices. They are ideal for restoration, modification (to guitar use), or disassembly for components. If this doesn't get you to start attending these sales, nothing will :)
Here is a link to the schematic for the Zenith 7D30 stereo: www.radiomuseum.org/r/zenith_s...
Thank you so much Uncle Doug and Rusty! This is such a good video. I grew up in Monte Vista, Cupertino, Silicone Valley now. I went to school with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. My uncles sold their orchards to Apple.
I heard an Ampex amp once and it had an amazing sound! What a find your friend made! Too many people are so excited when they find a vintage piece of tube gear that they can't wait to plug it in without proper precautions being taken only. Thanks for sharing.
Love this old gear! Love the marvelous heavy duty engineering inside it, & love the way you present it! Thank you!
love these type of videos doug, these are what ive been looking to score on.
Thanks for the interesting video Doug. We don't see much of this kind of stuff for sale where I live north west of England. Its a real feast for your eyes and ears. Take care and see you both again soon. Colin
I remember those 50s vintage stereo cabinets. Vox AC30 clone. 6BQ5 x 4 = 30watts
Thanks for another great video, Doug. Last year I purchased a Silvertone console record player with a stereo single-ended 6bq5 amp. I have the parts from other such finds to turn it into a PP, which is still between workbench and boxes. I have plans to use the nice SE transformers for Champ-style builds. I love what you do - keep it up!
Thanks for another great video! I'm sure all of us would be interested in maybe a one or two part video in which you would demonstrate how you would go about testing a find like these.
Thank you so much for your feedback,and it saves me lot of time without lot of readings searching looking for best transformer around.there are so many forums talking about different ideas about how they effective in terms of sound quality(i don't know if it's true or not) thanks again for your kindness.love all your videos..
Hi Doug I was salivating over that speaker 😝 very interesting video 👍
Fantastic finds! Congrats to the fortunate buyers of these hidden jewels. Another good place to find inexpensive tube amps is in older organs, such as Hammond and Lowerey.
Hi Uncle Doug! I just pulled a beautiful 25 watt tube amp out of a 1946 Bell and Howell Filmosound 16 mm projector. Along with it came a very early alnico Jensen 12' speaker. The amp and speaker sound divine.
Some really cool quality finds. Love the information. Thanks Doug.
Hi. I have 2 sets of the Zenith amp and preamp at the beginning of the video. One I have overhauled and is reinstalled in it's original cabinet with Cobra-Matic turntable. Sounds really nice. The other is in the process of being overhauled and will be installed in another cabinet with another Cobra-Matic turntable. Fun to have around.
Hi Uncle Doug, Rusty & Jack, I hope your all doing good. Spring is just around the corner, yeah. In the video, I heard you mention that the 4 6BQ5's, etc. would be the makings for a Vox AC 30 amp. I have always wanted to see your version of one. Unless the stereo amp was a customers, it sounds like you have the makings for one, unless it was sold. It would make an awesome video series, provided your still doing them. Lately, it seems as though all my favorite channels have decided to quit YT. I understand life is precious, and, one can only do so much, Thankyou for all you shared and taught about amps. Be good, C.
That Ampex tape player amp is really a work of art. Very well made!
OMG!!! That JBL speaker in that Ampex is a diamond! What a find!
I love this! I recently scored a 1958 Hoffman Electronics satellite speaker with a lovely pair of Schumacher transformers, and some Amperex tubes. All the basics needed for a stripped down, one channel AC15 style amp. This will be my first foray into converting an amp for guitar use. Exciting stuff!
Great video!
down in ecuador watching an uncledoug vid. love your show !!!!. ibecause of you i always look for cool oldy's to mod. they gotta be in ecuador somewhere. i heard once a man passed away here. and had a lil shop...... the family gave away all his tubes > that's so nice. cheers to you, uncledoug :)