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Bob and all,

Interestingly, there's a small business in the Boston area that has tons of TTY parts and he just doesn't have the time to dig them out and inventory them. I picked up a few machines from him a few years ago, but I guess he's too
busy to follow up. Sadly, there's probably a lot of these situations out there...witness what we found in Paterson NJ a few years ago (TTY parts heaven!). Even that was too much for a few of us to take on and the stuff went to the scrapper.

Jack WA2HWJ

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-------------- Original message from Bob Camp : -------------- 

> Hi 
> 
> A lot depends on what you have sitting in the garage. About mid day 
> yesterday there was a post from a regular here on the list about 
> hauling 20+ model 28 typing units to the dump. No way to ship them and 
> not enough people interested in driving over to haul them away. A lot 
> of this stuff gets disposed of on a "looking for a good home" basis 
> unless it's pretty unusual. 
> 
> Electronics seems to sell better than the mechanical side. Dovetrons 
> for instance still seem to hold some value. Some of the fancier 
> military FSK demodulators sell well. Model 14's and 15's seem to drop 
> down to the low end of the price scale pretty fast. Model 33's seem to 
> do ok if you can document the fact that Bill Gates used the one you 
> have for sale. New in the unopened shipping crate skintight 28's also 
> seem to be worth a bit more than they cost to ship. 
> 
> One thing that is a worry is parts. A number of people have boxes and 
> boxes of nice new brown envelopes with Skokie Illinois stamped on them 
> along with a Teletype part number. Simply inventorying all of them is 
> major undertaking. Finding a specific part number when you have one 
> break will get harder as time goes on. I'm not sure I know what the 
> solution to the problem is. You only want to pay for a part when you 
> have one break. Until then they just take up a lot of room ..... 
> 
> Take Care! 
> 
> Bob Camp 
> KB8TQ 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 15, 2004, at 4:07 PM, KA1EUI wrote: 
> 
> > Thanks for all the responses. I"m beginning to think that I'll keep 
> > my one Model 28, and my HAL ST-6 or my HAL CT2100. The rest of the 
> > stuff, and there's quite a bit, I'd like to sell. I've been spending 
> > a bundle on the shack lately, I got a new tower and a new HF rig, and 
> > a bunch of little things.....so I'd like to replensih the coffers. My 
> > gut reaction tells me to put it all on ebay. If I was to do it in 
> > individual pc's I'd probably make more, but I don't want to go through 
> > the aggravation. I'd really like to help some folks who really love 
> > this stuff. But, I just can't give it away. I need to get a fair 
> > price for it all. By the way, what are you guys listening to? I'll 
> > just use my 28 for the ARRL bulletins, and a few rag chews. For 
> > nostalga. Anyway, I'm not shipping anything...I think I"ll take an 
> > inventory and a few pics. If anyone would like to get together, and 
> > rummage through my garage with me, I'm all for it. I live in Holbrook 
> > MA which is just South of Boston. About 25 miles give or take. Well 
> > that's enough rambling from here. 
> > 
> > Thanks for listening 
> > 
> > Jim 
> > KA1EUI 
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