kretinus
09-24-2008, 03:26 PM
This thing appeared on CL a couple weeks ago, says it's working and in great shape. Had it up for $75, so I shot him an email and offered $25 and my VR VCX-500 in trade for it with a polite no thanks as a response.
Yesterday he emailed me out of the blue and asked if I was still interested, I figured something was up so I said i would but for $20 cash. He had claimed when I first contacted him that it had been recently serviced by the owner he was selling it for, no he said it had been se4rviced in '01, new belys etc, but when a guy came to buy it it just made a nasty noise.
Having had three decks now that pegged meters when turned on and made all sorts of noise, I had an idea it was the record switch, so I figured for $20, it was good for parts if it turned out to be something major, he accepted immediately and I drove down to pick it up.
Met the guy and got the whole story, says it was a friend of his who was into stereos and such but he'd had a stroke in '03, the deck had in fact gotten an overhaul in 03, and had basically been sitting in the guys house for 5 years untouched. I even got the reciept, lost it already, but I know the shop and it was legitimate work.
As you can tell, it's in very nice shape, the case is almost spotless, a good scrubbing and we'll have her shiny new looking. Got it home, went straight to the shop and blew out 5 years of house dust (had to have been a non-smoker), hit all the controls with deox and got the record switch as best I could without major disassembly and she's working flawlessly, as in pefecto, made a couple recordings, been listening to Chris Rea, for $20 bucks and gas, I finally have my TOTL vintage tape deck I've been searching for, and I think I got a hell of a deal, saw one went for over $200 on da 'bay, and this is definitely going to clean up to be near mint.
And notice how nicely it goes with my new Sony receiver I got yesterday.
Heck I even hit an SA on the way home and scored # very minty Jean-Luc Ponty LPs, can it get any better?
As I suspected, the only problem
Yesterday he emailed me out of the blue and asked if I was still interested, I figured something was up so I said i would but for $20 cash. He had claimed when I first contacted him that it had been recently serviced by the owner he was selling it for, no he said it had been se4rviced in '01, new belys etc, but when a guy came to buy it it just made a nasty noise.
Having had three decks now that pegged meters when turned on and made all sorts of noise, I had an idea it was the record switch, so I figured for $20, it was good for parts if it turned out to be something major, he accepted immediately and I drove down to pick it up.
Met the guy and got the whole story, says it was a friend of his who was into stereos and such but he'd had a stroke in '03, the deck had in fact gotten an overhaul in 03, and had basically been sitting in the guys house for 5 years untouched. I even got the reciept, lost it already, but I know the shop and it was legitimate work.
As you can tell, it's in very nice shape, the case is almost spotless, a good scrubbing and we'll have her shiny new looking. Got it home, went straight to the shop and blew out 5 years of house dust (had to have been a non-smoker), hit all the controls with deox and got the record switch as best I could without major disassembly and she's working flawlessly, as in pefecto, made a couple recordings, been listening to Chris Rea, for $20 bucks and gas, I finally have my TOTL vintage tape deck I've been searching for, and I think I got a hell of a deal, saw one went for over $200 on da 'bay, and this is definitely going to clean up to be near mint.
And notice how nicely it goes with my new Sony receiver I got yesterday.
Heck I even hit an SA on the way home and scored # very minty Jean-Luc Ponty LPs, can it get any better?
As I suspected, the only problem