[sdiy] Spring is in the air!

[Steve Begin]

So you're the guy who steals all the good garbage from around ottawa before
i can get to it!!!!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Snow" <psnow at magma.ca>
To: "Synth-DIY" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:11 PM
Subject: [sdiy] Spring is in the air!


> Hi Gang,
>
> The snow has nearly all melted in Ottawa and it is garbage day today.
Here's my haul acquired while
> fetching my daughter from sewing lessons (8 minutes drive):
>
> One Lowrey dual manual organ with foot pedals.  Works fine, some keys
sticking.  Rickity tick drum
> machine built in. Only about 8 different sounds - really, really cheesy.
The wood work is particle
> board with wood grain stick-on plastic "veneer".  A bench too.
Suggestions?
>
> An ancient intercom box with speaker and talk/listen switch.  On opening
it up I found it has a
> circuit board made of clear plastic with holes drilled and the components'
leads pushed thu' and
> soldered on the reverse side - no copper track at all!  The battery
obviously leaked at some point
> and the inside is a white gucky mess.  Should be fun playing with that.
>
> Three VHS machines. I'll brerak them up for parts (nice motors in there I
think)
>
> A fairly beaten up cassete recorder.
>
> An old Philips tube tape recorder. Looks dirty but may clean up OK.
>
> Urei 537 "one-third octave" mono graphic equalizer.  28 sliders -
unfortunately about 1/4 of them
> are broken off.
>
> An all-in-one stereo unit (no speakers).  Arm broken off the turntable but
all the electronics seem
> intact.
>
> OK, OK, most of it is crap, but it is the excitement of finding the stuff
that counts.  My daughter
> is getting really good at spotting electronic stuff at the side of the
road on garbage day.  I have
> taught her well (sigh!).
>
> My wife is mad as hell!
>
> I LOVE spring!
>
> Peter
>