2022 Flea market, yard sale, craigslist, etc finds

[mozz]

Can't believe I haven't started a new thread for this year? Must be getting old. Is 60yo old guys? Let me know. Went to the semiannual Kutztown PA. antique radio show. Some 8" Jensen, alnico. so late 60s early 70s? Pair for $5, great for champ style builds.

Pair of Utah 12", i already have a bare cabinet and baffle board for these, just deciding what amp to build in there.

Some tubes as usual, 6v6, 6l6g, 6sn7, 6sl7, quad of 7189a I stripped out of a Textronix test equip! Other box of misc tubes. Think it was $5 for all.

70 NOS 9 pin tube sockets. That in itself was a great find, gave the guy $20. Quality is miles ahead of any Chinese made socket.

These are stereo female jack, which can easily be wired to mono, great for making cord extenders or female to female couplers. Whole bag, most likely a lifetime supply.

Things without pictures and other junk i picked up earlier in the year. 1 lb spool of 42awg pickup wire, $2. Couple hundred gold plated transistors, 3 boxes full of Western electric parts, hence the new style fuzz pedals in other thread. HP germanium flat freq amplifier, 20db/40db gain, will wire this up for 1/4" jacks and see how it works.

Missed out on a 2x12 Magnatone, guy was walking away to go put it in his car, appears to be stripped of it's tubes but otherwise was complete. There's no doubt i would have bought it if i was 5 minutes earlier!

[notme]

Nice finds. I cant believe i havent bought anything yardsale ect in 2 years, not since my epi sg/cube15 $90 find.

[jtcnj]

You're OLD!!
Wait, I'm 58, sh*t.

[JimyTheAssassin]

I got a couple fun things lately.






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[mozz]

Looks like a pair of 6v6? Can't see the preamp tube but a good find. Looks like most everything you need right there. As for the Webster, i had something like that, probably all octals inside too.

[JimyTheAssassin]

Looks like a pair of 6v6? Can't see the preamp tube but a good find. Looks like most everything you need right there. As for the Webster, i had something like that, probably all octals inside too.

Ya! Sorry I wanted to include some details but inevitably the minute I try to post something, I’m needed and have to put my phone down. I have to remember to leave these things till late at night when everyone’s asleep .

The military piece is a signal corps VO-3f. It was originally used alongside several other units of equipment to help train Morse code. Besides all that interesting history, it’s basically a fully functional amp and an excellent candidate for some easy changes to make it good for guitar.

All military tubes, 5u4gb, 2-6v6gt and 1-6sn7. The PT says 6.3v at 1.5amp 5v at 3amp and 560 (280-0-280). The OT is 8k primary / 4,8,12 and 16 secondary rated for 14 watts.






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[JimyTheAssassin]

The Webster or webcor model 201 is like you called it. All octals 6sc7gt 6SL7gt 6sn7gt 6k6gt 6x5gt and a 6e5 seeing eye tube. I paid $30 for the thing and it was tested as working. I assume it needs service still. The most exciting part for me is that the seller said the tape real has a recording of a banjo band. The down side is it’s missing the microphone and original power cord (someone soldered one to the plug terminal). and the grill protecting the tubes. Im interested in restoring it first and hearing tbis recording.






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[JimyTheAssassin]

I did not buy this. It is for x-ray physiotherapy ? Diathermy? Honestly it looks like a bunch of coils and transformers inside. I believe it was used shock therapy or interrogation. Take your pick. . There were jacks labeled low power. Medium power and high power. Maybe it would be fun to plug two leads into a pound of hamburger and see if it cooks. Hah.


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[mozz]

The 6SC7GT , glass version tube are not easy to find. I built a 5C3 version of the fender deluxe which uses the 6sc7 in grid leak bias. I did not like the way it overdrives so i converted it to cathode bias. Problem was the 6sc7 metal tubes were microphonic. I finally found out there was a glass version, not common but i got a pair fairly cheap. Tung Sol i think. I have a problem with a crackling sound last time i used it, need to get it back on the bench to troubleshoot. You can make a champ with that tube lineup.

Never bought a quack medical device but i bought something that was used to calibrate watches (watchmaster?) that had a bunch of tubes.

[JimyTheAssassin]

Ya if all else fails, I will definitely see if it’s a good champ donor. The 6sc7 is a GTY tube like this one. I love the crazy rebranded logo. It sounds so sci-fi. Overall I did pretty well only paying $30 for the reel to reel and $45 for the military radio. I usually see people ask way more for way less in these kinds of shops.



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[mozz]

Double cut First Act, in cherry $18. It's pretty beat up but i see potential. I have a wrap around bridge i may try to install if i can block up the trem cutout. Maybe a headstock restyle.

Next up, a 2 meter ham radio from the Civil Defense era. It's AM, (amplitude modulation) instead of the now used FM (freq mod) so it's basically no use on the bands today. $3, i figured this would make a cool amp head. First picture isn't mine but the same, i have already stripped it down to the chassis and with it's massive transformer i think i can run a parallel pair of 6v6 and 3 or 4 preamp tubes, high volts is only about 350v so I'll stick with 6v6.

Got it stripped ready to add the chassis back, leaving the paint as is. I will have the magic eye tube hooked to the output somehow.

[JimyTheAssassin]

I can’t wait to see that! $3. Damn. Those seeing eye tubes are worth way more than that by themselves. Cool project


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[jhull54]

Found this bad boy at our local Goodwill store yesterday. Cleaned up pretty well!

[mozz]

Found 2 old 16mm movie projectors, built one of these before into a head cabinet. 1 is a Filmosound 179 which was Bell & Howell and the other is Ampro Premier 10. They are both 6v6 push pull, 10-12 watts. I have the schematics, i think one has a 6j7 into a 6sl7 and the other is 6j7 into a 6j5 with a interstage transformer used a phase inverter. These will have to wait a while as i have a plexi/jtm45 with 6v6 outputs on the bench now and a few car brake/paint touchup jobs going on currently.

[mozz]

Pair of microphones in Shure zip bags. I'm not sure what brand they are, look almost like a SM57 or 545 but not quite. I did some Google image searches for Shure, EV, Sennheiser , Altec and can't really find anything that matches. They could be Japanese clones, they are well made, nice and heavy and they disassemble like a Shure. They measure out to be low impedance.

EDIT: Found out they are Astatic microphones, model 812s or 813s. Probably almost the same as a Shure 57,545. Good for vocals or miking instruments. For the $10/pair purchase price i can't complain.

[Tiga]

Picked up this dismantled and what appears to be painted Danelectro at a yard sale today for $40.

[mozz]

Teisco/Kawai made? $15 i could not let it pass and gave it a new home. Usually these are missing the trem bar and cover. I'm pretty sure it is actually a "Crown Professional" from the pictures i can find. Really thin frets, so when completed I'll probably not like it, having played/struggled with these back in the 70's. Gibson scale on fender style neck, of course. Some of the shiny chrome you see is from me polishing it up, came out nice. Really screwy pickup switches , which i totally took apart and cleaned, to my surprise it works as new. Pickups are 3.8k each. Fake humbuckers, really single coils under the covers, same as most Japanese guitars of the era. Not plugged in yet as the strings I'm 99% sure were the factory original from 60's.

[Partscaster]

King of the Fleas, Mozz!
Amazing finds on this thread.

[dabbler]

Teisco/Kawai made? $15 i could not let it pass and gave it a new home. Usually these are missing the trem bar and cover. I'm pretty sure it is actually a "Crown Professional" from the pictures i can find. Really thin frets, so when completed I'll probably not like it, having played/struggled with these back in the 70's. Gibson scale on fender style neck, of course. Some of the shiny chrome you see is from me polishing it up, came out nice. Really screwy pickup switches , which i totally took apart and cleaned, to my surprise it works as new. Pickups are 3.8k each. Fake humbuckers, really single coils under the covers, same as most Japanese guitars of the era. Not plugged in yet as the strings I'm 99% sure were the factory original from 60's.

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Fantastic polishing job! What did you use on it???

[mozz]

I used chrome polish, green bottle, I forget the brand but it's the stuff you would use on a old car bumper.

[honyock]

I used chrome polish, green bottle, I forget the brand but it's the stuff you would use on a old car bumper.

Turtle wax?

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[mozz]

Yes turtle wax brand. Some pitting into some of the chrome but a world of difference. It's strung up now with Boomer 10's (were on sale, someone here mentioned it?). I have to see how the truss rod is, pretty low action already, I may end up keeping it. Pickups are known to be microphonic so i would have to unsolder them and wax pot them. The R-S switch is Rhythm/Solo, in rhythm mode it adds a capacitor in between the hot lead and the output, makes it pretty dark from what i read.

[honyock]

Brasso works good too, but it has a little more chemical reaction to it than Turtle Wax chrome polish, still strips off heavier tarnish and stuff like that.

Really heavy stuff I have used oven cleaner with tin foil as a scrubbing pad of sorts. This worked wonders on my Harley exhaust where it had been hit by fork oil when hot after a fork seal let go one day. If it can remove baked on nastiness without harming the chrome of the racks in an oven, it should work on minor nastiness built up on guitar parts I would think.

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[mozz]

No doubt the turtle wax is not too strong. Doesn't really seem to do much. Yeah it's shiny but it doesn't touch any pitting. The hardware store had meguiers or mother's but were sold out of both. I've used that wadding polish at work years ago.

[Tiga]

I really dig that Teisco! So cool that it still has the whammy bar. Does it have a truss rod?