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29th Apr 2015, 9:27 pm | #1 |
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Another dustbin find!
Hi,
My wife hates sending me to the village bins to dispose of our household rubbish as I sometimes find little gems. This time it was a rather tidy Grundig TK6. I think it must have been dumped by a fellow ex-pat as the controls are labelled in German. It works well and just needed a bit of a clean, a squirt of cleaner in the volume & tone pots and a degauss. Cheers, Pete.
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29th Apr 2015, 10:24 pm | #2 |
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Re: Another dustbin find!
Great score! what's on the tape?
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29th Apr 2015, 11:38 pm | #3 |
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Re: Another dustbin find!
It strikes me as shameful that stuff like this is being dumped. Thankfully this example was saved but how many others are gone forever?
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30th Apr 2015, 8:28 am | #4 |
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Re: Another dustbin find!
Well done for saving it
It certainly is a cute little unit, it never ceases to amaze me how some units require no more than quick clean and service to be returned to working order. Mark |
30th Apr 2015, 10:54 am | #5 |
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Re: Another dustbin find!
Hi,
Alas, there was no tape on it when found, just the empty take up reel. I think the person who dumped it might have been hoping it would be rescued, as it was with a box of old books alongside the bin rather than inside it. Not sure why, but the mains plug had been cut off and cast aside, so it just needed a new one and away it went! It's a heavy beast for its size, even without the six 'D' cells it was designed to take! Cheers, Pete.
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