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Jez1234 · 17th Apr 2021, 5:52 pm

Some of the really huge ones, the more "bad taste" the better it seems, have been offered for sale at >£1000!! Of course they may never get what they ask for...

Awful plasticky tat even when new, many are now suffering "plastic rot" and in the case of the one I mentioned above (apparently worth maybe £700!), simply opening the casework to get at the dry joints and dirty switches and pots which were the source of the trouble meant that about 8 or so plastic pillars into which self tappers were meant to go simply crumbled away or snapped off... a certain amount of superglue was required to give it back to the owner "in one piece"! Never again....

17th Apr 2021, 5:52 pm	#38
Jez1234 Banned Join Date: Mar 2021 Location: Morpeth, Northumberland, UK. Posts: 936	Re: Your thoughts on modernising old tech? Some of the really huge ones, the more "bad taste" the better it seems, have been offered for sale at >£1000!! Of course they may never get what they ask for... Awful plasticky tat even when new, many are now suffering "plastic rot" and in the case of the one I mentioned above (apparently worth maybe £700!), simply opening the casework to get at the dry joints and dirty switches and pots which were the source of the trouble meant that about 8 or so plastic pillars into which self tappers were meant to go simply crumbled away or snapped off... a certain amount of superglue was required to give it back to the owner "in one piece"! Never again....