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canucklehead
Joined: 26 May 2006
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Location: Mission BC Canada
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:49 am Post subject: I love value village |
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Picked up a Vidikron LD40 line doubler for $15 bucks yesterday at the Langley Value Village near Curt's house. Is this yours Curt? or maybe another forum member in Langley? I googled it and was I suprised to see the original MSRP was like 8 grand in the mid 90's. Anyway I hooked it up to my 1270 an I was pleasantly surprised,(I was running straight S-video before), I have had a HTPC set up before, but it crapped out months ago and I just haven't replace it. The only problem is there are green bands throughout the image. I can reduce them by playing with the tint control on the LD40. I have three thoughts on this. 1.) I have really bad BNC cables. 2.) The tint control is dirty and needs cleaning, or 3.) Bad solder joints or bad caps. Has anyone who has had this unit had similar trouble? I think I can fix it and if I can't I only spent $15.
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AnalogRocks
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Good score. I've found some great stuff at thrift stores. It's a garage sale every day!
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Curt Palme
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Joined: 08 Mar 2006
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Location: Langley, BC
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Ratbastard! THe nerve, fishing in my backyard.
Good find! Check the power supply lines, I'll bet you have a bad cap somewhere.
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Joust
Joined: 05 May 2006
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Location: Almonte, Ontario, Canada
TV/Projector: Marquee 8501LC
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VSWR!!!
sorry Bucketfoot. just kidding.
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canucklehead
Joined: 26 May 2006
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Location: Mission BC Canada
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VSWR? and who is Bucketfoot?
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AnalogRocks
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Me think's Joust has left his mind in another thread.
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Joust
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Location: Almonte, Ontario, Canada
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| canucklehead wrote: | | VSWR? and who is Bucketfoot? |
 sorry for the highjack. go look at the '75 ohm vs 50 ohm cables' at CurtPalme.com thread.
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zaphod
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Location: Cloverdale
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you lucky guy! that's the VV i constantly cruise but rarely score on. a bit of tube gear occasstionally, and a mint revox style cleaner for reel2reel machines.
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Curt Palme
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Location: Langley, BC
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Well fine, I'm camping out!
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canucklehead
Joined: 26 May 2006
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Location: Mission BC Canada
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I would love to find some tube gear at a thrift store. The VCR and cheap DVD players are sure stacking up though.
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Bucketfoot
Joined: 17 Mar 2006
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Location: Centennial, CO
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| Joust wrote: | | sorry for the highjack. go look at the '75 ohm vs 50 ohm cables' at CurtPalme.com thread. |
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Fujifrontier
Joined: 20 Oct 2007
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Location: San Antonio, Texas
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unfortunately the thrift stores have gotten ebay savvy and now nothing good is put out
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Curt Palme
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Not here. Value Village hasn't discovered the internet yet. Neither have churches that have rummage sales or the typical garage sale putter-onner.
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canucklehead
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Location: Mission BC Canada
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I think one VV has figured it out. There is one in Burnaby on Kingsway near Edmonds that gets some good electronics like Marantz recievers and such, but their prices are a little out of line IMHO for a thrift store.
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jask
Joined: 17 Mar 2006
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Location: kamloops BC
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| canucklehead wrote: | | I think one VV has figured it out. There is one in Burnaby on Kingsway near Edmonds that gets some good electronics like Marantz recievers and such, but their prices are a little out of line IMHO for a thrift store. |
same up here in Kamloops,(I guess they are a for profit company) I saw a set of home built speakers with 80's phillips drivers in there a while ago for 79$ !!  it is the second string shops and thrift cellars...and church yard sales etc that really suprise me sometimes- some real gold if you know what to look for.
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AnalogRocks
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I found the top part of a 'still at a bibble thrift store. Nice hand crafter copper.
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deronmoped
Joined: 03 Nov 2006
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The Thrift stores in San Diego are not much good, I think most of the good stuff gets picked over by the employees first, anything that looks like it has value they want top dollar for.
Now the yard sales are killer, can expect to pay ten cents on the dollar for most stuff. Everything you need under the Sun is out there, you just have to be patient. I've been spoiled, any time I go into a store I get sticker shock. "Dam, I could get that at a garage sale for one tenth that price, no tax to boot".
The other thing that a lot of guys do not realize is you meet and talk to all kinds of very friendly women! I still remember this one sale I went too this last summer, it was a hot day, the hotter the better, I ended up at sale with five very friendly, hot, not much on, women. They were closing up shop and asked me if there was anything there I would be interested in. Mannnnnnn, was I, all five of them!
Deron.
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