by an amazing twist of fate, I am now the owner of the contents of the building below... the gent, my gracious benefactor, was once, a long time ago, a code breaker and communications specialist overseas...he also repaired army equipment as well as having a business on the side repairing audio/video appliances..anyway, when he ETS(got out) of the army, he had thousands of valves with him and brought them over , set up shop in rural SC, and began a tv/radio repair service.
one night in 1987, he was working on a tv that he described as being "a real bitch".. well, at about 130 am, after working on the thing for 5 hours, he got very angry, turned off the lights to the shop, closed the doors, and never walked back in....well, this gent happened to be the brother of my great, great uncle... i met him about 2 years ago. at the time he was wanting badly to get rid of the stuff so he could convert the space into a woodshop... , well, after two years of talking about it, last week we came to the agreement that if I would clean out the shop(EVERYTHING), pack it all up and get it out of his way, all would be mine... this is over 800 tubes(all kinds and makes, all new, not to mention about 1200 used!!) ..also 3 top notch military grade tube testers, 2 dual trace oscilloscopes, boxes and boxes of transformers, resistors, astatic stylus tips, etc..... well, I started loading up today and will be all week.... it is all mine, baby!!!!! goldmine!
by an amazing twist of fate, I am now the owner of the contents of the building below... the gent, my gracious benefactor, was once, a long time ago, a code breaker and communications specialist overseas...he also repaired army equipment as well as having a business on the side repairing audio/video appliances..anyway, when he ETS(got out) of the army, he had thousands of valves with him and brought them over , set up shop in rural SC, and began a tv/radio repair service.
one night in 1987, he was working on a tv that he described as being "a real bitch".. well, at about 130 am, after working on the thing for 5 hours, he got very angry, turned off the lights to the shop, closed the doors, and never walked back in....well, this gent happened to be the brother of my great, great uncle... i met him about 2 years ago. at the time he was wanting badly to get rid of the stuff so he could convert the space into a woodshop... , well, after two years of talking about it, last week we came to the agreement that if I would clean out the shop(EVERYTHING), pack it all up and get it out of his way, all would be mine... this is over 800 tubes(all kinds and makes, all new, not to mention about 1200 used!!) ..also 3 top notch military grade tube testers, 2 dual trace oscilloscopes, boxes and boxes of transformers, resistors, astatic stylus tips, etc..... well, I started loading up today and will be all week.... it is all mine, baby!!!!! goldmine!