where do you score your stuff?

[sismofyt]

Cool Jakob :thumb: :green:

 

[chrissugar]

Hi tony dB

Yes it has a high pitched sound but the level is very low.
I have a cure for this problem. First time I tried it on my Korg 01R/W and then on AKAI S1100 sampler.
Try to swap the wires from the backlight panel and in most of the cases the noise will stop or will drop significantly in level. It do not work all the time. I done this technique to a friends sampler and the change was almost zero.
Good luck!

chrissugar

 

[gyraf]

..naa, I couldn't sell that. I'm sorta more into buying stuff than selling..

..not counting stuff in current production off course :grin:

Jakob E.

 

[CJ]

Do we need a Meta-Parts Sources thread?

 

[chrissugar]

:sad:
I'm so sad. The EMU II is my dream machine from the eighties. Remember the DEPECHE MODE concerts? Almost bought one some years ago from Hungary but as always was to busy to handle the deal.

chrissugar

 

[The Kid]

Recycling/dumpster diving rocks! You wouldn't believe (well, maybe you would!) what people will chuck out! I've got about 3 19" televisions, that were just sitting in the garbage. The only bad thing was, they were just comatose, not D.O.A., meaning they all still work, thanks to a new fuse! :twisted: Why is that bad? Well, I hate to scrap stuff that's still functional! For now, I'll just be the vulture waiting for the eventual demise! (And watch a little tube on the side!)
My best score, though, was when the guys next door (satellite/cable tv) to the place I worked chucked out over 40 various sized 19" rack boxes, complete with their intact circuits, meters, etc., I loaded up as many as I could, and figured I was set for life! Alas, I had to move to another state, and didn't have room for the bulk, so I just shoved what I could in the car, choked a couple tears back, and, well, here we are! Excuse me a minute, I need a moment! :sam:
(I feel as though I'm at an Audio Anonymous meeting; I'd feel wierd telling that story to anybody else, but I know you guys can relate!)
Another good place to find electronic stuff, is in the desert where people like to take out their frustrations on inatimate objects! I've gotten all kinds of caps, resistors, you name it, off of shot up tv's, radios, and the like! I haven't run any tests, on how the bullet holes affect the capacitance of some of the parts, but I'm guessin' it ain't a good thing! :grin: :sam:

 

[gyraf]

Just went through the scrap thrown out by our local technological institute (the ones that does tests of materials etc), looking for stuff like stepper motors and other mechanical goodies. Saw in the "regular garbage" pile ("to be burnt"-stuff) a cardboard box with the easy-to-recognize blue globe logo on it.. Need to check out things like that.

:shock:

Found:

- A Brüel&Kjær Type 2225 integrating sound level meter w/ 4175 capsule - a bit worn, now working perfectly
- A Brüel&Kjær Type 4133 capsule
- A Brüel&Kjær Type 4155 capsule - might be broken though
- A Brüel&Kjær Type 4163 capsule
- Three Brüel&Kjær Type 4165 capsules, two partly broken, one working
- A Brüel&Kjær Type Zf0020 -20dB capsule extender
- Three Brüel&Kjær Type UA0196 goose-neck capsule extenders (two in bad shape)
- Two Brüel&Kjær Type 4230 Sound level calibrators - one broken, one fully working (and spot-on level)
- A Brüel&Kjær Type 4220 Pistonphone (laboratory standard mic sound level calibrator)
- And a variety of acclerometer sensors..

...most of these in beautifull rosewood boxes, including calibration charts for all of them...

:shock:

Sometimes it's hard to believe one's eyes when that sort of thing happens..

Jakob E.

 

[chrissugar]

:shock:
Why it never happens to me? Why?

chrissugar

 

[The Kid]

See, dreams really can come true! :thumb:

(just amazing, what's junk to some, and NOT to others!) sigh!

 

[wilebee]

dumpster diveing rules!!!! I found about 150 slightly use c&k 7203's each were attached to nintendo gameboys. I had the best time retreving the switches and smaching the gameboys :twisted :

Wilebee