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I've got a 1961 music centre type thing, stuck in my loft

thx1138thx1138
edited January 2008 in Chit chat
Six years ago, I was at my physical peak, and I put this old early 60's stereo in the loft, after a house clearance. At the time, stuff like that, you couldn't give it away, and we used to take them to the tip. I kept it, and stuck it in the loft, planning to ebay it one day.

Thought I might give it a punt this week, now that I've started uising "make me an offer" along with buy-it-now. Only problem is I'm now out of shape, and I can't get the bugger down again, without breaking it, or injuring myself, or both. Bugger.
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  • beanzbeanz
    edited January 2008
    thx1138 wrote: »
    Six years ago, I was at my physical peak, and I put this old early 60's stereo in the loft, after a house clearance. At the time, stuff like that, you couldn't give it away, and we used to take them to the tip. I kept it, and stuck it in the loft, planning to ebay it one day.

    Thought I might give it a punt this week, now that I've started uising "make me an offer" along with buy-it-now. Only problem is I'm now out of shape, and I can't get the bugger down again, without breaking it, or injuring myself, or both. Bugger.

    Tell the wife to bring it down.
  • milemile
    edited January 2008
    you must have some tough biker mates that can give you a hand. failing that, do a rocky type montage, it only takes about the length of the song 'eye of the tiger' to get into shape.
  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited January 2008
    mile wrote: »
    you must have some tough biker mates that can give you a hand. failing that, do a rocky type montage, it only takes about the length of the song 'eye of the tiger' to get into shape.
    Thought it was Gonna Fly Now. :)

    Necros.
  • milemile
    edited January 2008
    Necros wrote: »
    Thought it was Gonna Fly Now. :)

    Necros.

    i don't want him getting sued for copyright. :)
  • Jumping StackJumping Stack
    edited January 2008
    set fire to the roof and catch it when it falls through - hopefully undamaged.
  • milemile
    edited January 2008
    reant a powerlifter from a hire shop. you know like the ones out of aliens. and for an added laugh when your wife goes near the stereo, shout 'get away from that, you bitch!!' If she gets upset at your tone, open the air lock and flush her into space.
  • beanzbeanz
    edited January 2008
    Dismantle it in the loft for easy transportation and then reassemble down stairs.

    The bonus to this is that you will inevitably be left with 'extra parts' which you can then list as a seperate auction the week after as 'repair kit for 1961 music centre!'.
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited January 2008
    beanz wrote: »
    Dismantle it in the loft for easy transportation and then reassemble down stairs.

    The bonus to this is that you will inevitably be left with 'extra parts' which you can then list as a seperate auction the week after as 'repair kit for 1961 music centre!'.



    Actually, you might have something there, I could probably strip it, bin it, and sell the valves, assuming I can get them out without breaking them, and correctly identify them in a listing.
  • beanzbeanz
    edited January 2008
    thx1138 wrote: »
    Actually, you might have something there, I could probably strip it, bin it, and sell the valves, assuming I can get them out without breaking them, and correctly identify them in a listing.


    Probably, I have a friend in a band and he pays a fortune for valves for his amp...says they sound better than modern amps.....still sounds like crap to me but that might just be his music!
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited January 2008
    no we're not fucking coming round to help :D

    on a scrap heap type topic.
    at work today the maintence guy was clearing out the store room upstairs, he chucked out 8 old monitors from old puters (he'd chucked some out before i noticed) but the boss told him to smash em with a sledgehammer first :(
    i told him to fuck andy and sell em on ebay :P
    he smashed em :(
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  • beanzbeanz
    edited January 2008
    mel the bell wrote: »
    no we're not fucking coming round to help :D

    on a scrap heap type topic.
    at work today the maintence guy was clearing out the store room upstairs, he chucked out 8 old monitors from old puters (he'd chucked some out before i noticed) but the boss told him to smash em with a sledgehammer first :(
    i told him to fuck andy and sell em on ebay :P
    he smashed em :(

    I think he is breaking safe disposal laws by smashing em...maybe.
  • KleptoKlepto
    edited January 2008
    mile wrote: »
    reant a powerlifter from a hire shop. you know like the ones out of aliens. and for an added laugh when your wife goes near the stereo, shout 'get away from that, you bitch!!' If she gets upset at your tone, open the air lock and flush her into space.

    LOL! I almost spat my drink all over my monitor when I read that!
  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited January 2008
    Necros wrote: »
    Thought it was Gonna Fly Now. :)

    Necros.

    Depends on what Rocky film you're watching.

    I'd personally recommend the song "Montage" from Team America. :D
  • milemile
    edited January 2008
    Klepto wrote: »
    LOL! I almost spat my drink all over my monitor when I read that!

    :)
    ................
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited January 2008
    mel the bell wrote: »
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    i told him to fuck andy and sell em on ebay :P
    he smashed em :(
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited January 2008
    mel the bell wrote: »
    no we're not fucking coming round to help :D

    on a scrap heap type topic.
    at work today the maintence guy was clearing out the store room upstairs, he chucked out 8 old monitors from old puters (he'd chucked some out before i noticed) but the boss told him to smash em with a sledgehammer first :(
    i told him to fuck andy and sell em on ebay :P
    he smashed em :(

    I hate it when companies do that. In my security guarding days I have to over see the disposal of a large number of ex company laptops. They put them in a compactor, some were only 18 months old :cry:.

    When Didcot power station in Oxfordshire signed a new contract for the supply of new PC's (in the early millennium) they got a 30% discount on the proviso that they smashed up all their existing PCs rather than gave them away. TBH things like that should have been exposed to the media. However, Im not sure they would have care apparently this was common practice, im sure the media companies were doing it themselves at some point.

    Compaines then palm this off as an insurance issue with the "Well I we give this 18 month old computer to the local play school and it killed a child we would be responcible" rectoric.
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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited January 2008
    I once shouted "Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!" and sprinted across the local tip, in time to save a Georgian dresser from the crusher, only to find it had been used as target practice, and had been stored in an old barn, generations of air-gun wielding farmers kids had taken their toll. So, I helped them load it into the crushing machine. :(
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited January 2008
    heh - sprint. I can only walk now. :( damned tendonitis.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited January 2008
    One of my dads drinking buddies works at one of those council recycling plants. The things people trow out is unbeleivable it beggs beleif.

    I asked him once if he could get me a music keyboard with midi capability. He returned a week later with the bottom half of this:

    http://digilander.libero.it/vacca_stracca/immagini/vaccastraccaelectronicstudio/synths&co/synthi(aks).jpg

    A rare 60's synthesiser, I promptly sold it on ebay for £600. A week later he got me a brand new boxed Yammaha PSR-375 portable organ wich was more suited to my needs. I'm just gutted to think what happened to the top half, that was worth over £2500. Needless to say we searched and searched but never found it.

    A recent story that came to lignt was this. Now you can beleive it or not, however, both my parents have seen this box and say a its genuine story. A truck came to the tip from doing a house clearance. In amgonst the stuff thrown out was a shoe box. He peered inside, the men with the truck said "yeah thats just a pile of old costume jewlery". he got it values and as it turned out that the jewlery was from poland before the 2nd world war and all real. It was worth over twenty thousand pounds. Needless to say the bloke the guy kept it and shall remain nameless.
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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited January 2008
    the other week i found out my mate had chucked his daughters "knackered" laptop away...apparently "somebody" told him it wasnt fixable.
    id rather find out whats up with it myself like...but the binmen had been a week before he told me :(

    as long as it wasnt a screen issue its possibly fixable
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