The Official Thrift / Discount Store Bragging Thread Part III (Sept 2018-)

[eazye]

Too late for Hugh Hefner Halloween getup, just in time for sophisticated Santa costume

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

 

[impuntura]

I lol'd

 

[goatamous II]

The Toronto folks know where this is

 

[eazye]

I lol'd
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As a Pol, I need one of those.

 

[St1X]

I lol'd
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O kurwa!

 

[greekgeek]

Yammy tape deck update: Welp, found a tape. FFWD and Reverse are working, Play will not, can't seem to spin with a tape at low speed. Gunna need to update those belts after all. Hopefully that's all it needs.

In other news I tried the tape in a thrifted 90's Denon mini system ($15, sans remote) , worked great and sounds better than I expected. Those little Denon's sound great overall, even more so if you upgrade the speakers.

 

[sandfourman]

Vintage heads anyone able to date this? Lovely item!

 

[kbadgley84]

The Toronto folks know where this is

That happened a few years ago at the bins down here

 

[impuntura]

Happens here every few years ,just souvenir from ww2 most likely

 

[eazye]

Someone once donated an anti-aircraft missile launcher at a goodwill too

 

[Letric]

I wonder how many items like that are just quietly pocketed/purchased and tucked away for a rainy day.

 

[txwoodworker]

Vintage heads anyone able to date this? Lovely item!
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I found this last time I found a vtg Penney's I wanted to look up:

Vintage Fashion Guild : Label Resource : Penney, J.C.

J.C. Penney had its origins in the store opened in 1902 by James Cash Penney (1876-1971) and William Henry McManus, who opened the Golden Rule dry goods...

vintagefashionguild.org

So maybe 60s?

 

[Centaurus3200]

Yammy tape deck update: Welp, found a tape. FFWD and Reverse are working, Play will not, can't seem to spin with a tape at low speed. Gunna need to update those belts after all. Hopefully that's all it needs.

In other news I tried the tape in a thrifted 90's Denon mini system ($15, sans remote) , worked great and sounds better than I expected. Those little Denon's sound great overall, even more so if you upgrade the speakers.

reminds me of one of my past bad decisions. over a 12 years ago, i found a Nakamichi ZX-7 for $20 at an electronics meet. guy said he didn't know if it worked. got it home. it would FF and RW, but not play. my friend knows Nak decks reasonably well. he couldn't get it going. there's a local SF bay area "tape head" that knows how to fix them. the quote was $500 for going through the unit.

i was too cheap... but what i should have done was just put it on a shelf. i got into "marie kondo mode" a few years later and impulsively sold it broken for $225 on craigslist. took a while to get that much too. the guy who bought it said it's a ***** of a job to do.

working, it's now worth over $2k. i still regret letting it go. but to be honest, though i love dead technology, i have CD, vinyl, VHS... even LASERDISC! cassette tapes are just fvcking ANNOYING!

 

[Letric]

With all this audio gear talk lately it's made me go into storage and dig out my old Kenwood system. Been wanting to clean em up and setup properly in my office.

The good 1970s Japan made - Heavy as hell with nice knobs. Somewhere I've got a another, spare, KT-5300 but couldn't locate it.

 

[greekgeek]

reminds me of one of my past bad decisions. over a 12 years ago, i found a Nakamichi ZX-7 for $20 at an electronics meet. guy said he didn't know if it worked. got it home. it would FF and RW, but not play. my friend knows Nak decks reasonably well. he couldn't get it going. there's a local SF bay area "tape head" that knows how to fix them. the quote was $500 for going through the unit.

i was too cheap... but what i should have done was just put it on a shelf. i got into "marie kondo mode" a few years later and impulsively sold it broken for $225 on craigslist. took a while to get that much too. the guy who bought it said it's a ***** of a job to do.

working, it's now worth over $2k. i still regret letting it go. but to be honest, though i love dead technology, i have CD, vinyl, VHS... even LASERDISC! cassette tapes are just fvcking ANNOYING!

Yeah, that's wild!! I thought tape decks were dead ducks for ages because, well they were unless something special or top of the line, like yours. Always ignored them then last year I found a good one, some guy followed me in the thrift. He really wanted it so I let him have it. Since then I wanted to try one out, haven't seen a good one since.

Supposedly these Yammy's are easy to work on, except the parts are hard to find. Maybe $300-400 on the Bay when working. I'll throw another $20 in belts at it to see if I can make it sing. I want to get it going by Christmas to give to my sister but am having a hard time finding a US source for the smaller belt. Germany and Spain sellers have them but shipping will take some time.

Large belt was no problem to locate but I can't even find the dimensions/specs for the smaller one yet.