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Re: Good Hunting

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1/19/2000 4:33 PM
Lou	Re: Good Hunting Just picked up from a old rocker a mutron bi-phase no control ped. but in working order, a mti pre-amp tube overdrive unit that works, 2-12 cabinet w/celestions, sun 2/15 scoop bass bin loaded w/jbl's and a empty fender style 2/12 cabinet. The rocker God's are looking out for us!! All this for $150 bucks.. feels good to recycle.. Cheers Lou

1/21/2000 11:55 AM
Matt	Good stuff lou,yesterday I picked up an Ibanez PT-999 phase tone(the one with 1 knob) for $40 here in Oz,,really well used and holes drilled in the bottom,but what the hell,40 is a good price,its just that I have bought 2 before and they were less together than that(a dead mint one for $10 some time ago) Matt

1/21/2000 1:26 PM

Well, picked up a couple more interesting items. Got 2 Univox EC-80 tape echo units for $20 each....including good tapes for each. I already had an EC100, but needed a tape. One of the EC80's only had a ground wire off. Soldered it back....works great. Put one of the tapes in the EC100...it works perfect. Need to work on the other EC80, it runs...just doesn't record. I ran one into the other....just to be sick....and it was. If you plug into the low input, go out the high, and then into the low of the other and back out the high to the amp....it makes a disgusting overdrive.
No one will confuse these with a good echoplex, but they DO do interesting stuff.
Brad

1/21/2000 3:58 PM

I got a Roger Mayer rocket fuzz from a gut for fifteen bucks once. It was dead. Turned out, one side of the volume pot was broken. I switched the wires around, and the thing has worked great ever since, no cost to fix. The nifty heavy-duty rocket/spaceship looking box is worth fifteen bucks alone.
My only other big coup was a vox wah for ten bucks. Again it didn't work. Turned out there was a loose component. Resoldered it, been fine ever since too. Don't really like it too much(wah ain't my thang), but for ten bucks, might as well. Maybe I'll sell it someday, I'll be gauranteed to make a profit on it.

-Chris

1/23/2000 3:44 PM
bill	About 5 years ago I picked up an original Thomas Organ wah for $15 because it was "dead". Ended up being a broken battery connector, what a great sounding pedal!

1/22/2000 4:38 PM

The down side of fostering technical know-how

You realize of course that, as more people visit this site and learn more about how to fix things, the deals that stem from one numbskull repair will grow increasingly infrequent.

Ah well, get what you can while ignorance is in sufficient abundance.

My record score was an original 59 Bassman for $30 Cdn (is was missing output tubes so they didn't know if it worked...trust me, it worked), and a Korg Pandora for $30 Cdn, because they couldn't tell what it was without batteries in it. The Bassman was SUPPOSED to be $40, but when the guy heard me mutter about the missing 4th speaker, he did the mental arithmetic and adjusted the price. Praise the lord for pawn shops that keep their overhead low by hiring doofuses!

1/22/2000 9:38 PM
Brad	Maybe they should make everyone fill out an unassuming questionaire before they let anyone come in. If they list "Pawnshop Sales" as their occupation, they would automatically get bumped.

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