free tube gear score!
so I was checking the free ads on craigslist and there was one mentioning some free speakers that wasn't too far from my house so I went and checked it out. turns out the property was a former group home for the retarded and the company that was running the facility that was trying to do a rent to own situation fell threw, the home itself was also shut down for mistreatment of its patients, anyway I get out there, it was down a long driveway where I saw a small group of houses, all were overgrown and trash was all over the place. I got the speakers which are 1980s BPC era whitewall woofer JVCs, cabinets in bad shape but good drivers still
http://i1330.photobucket.com/albums/...psb249566b.jpg after I loaded those into the car I walked around the property looking at all the stuff. behind the house out in the woods I came across a Hammond tube organ, looked to be a old B-3 but it was in horrible shape, cabinet was water damaged, had a termite infestation, and was full of mouse poop. it was a B3 and if it had been in better shape I would have dragged it home, but it was awful, so I robbed the amp, preamp, speakers, and reverb unit out of it. http://i1330.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6017bde2.jpg the woofers although rusty dare not damaged. seem to be Jensen specials but not sure http://i1330.photobucket.com/albums/...ps71afa460.jpg the amp is push pull mono 6bq5 based. rough shape, it was exposed to the elements for a lot of years. dunno if it works yet http://i1330.photobucket.com/albums/...ps69511880.jpg |
Not bad. At the very least, I'd clean up and rebuild the amp & pre. Might be able to find a use for those speaks too.
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Have you checked out the tubeage? If that rectifier is a GE, it's a nice one. I prefer the side getter GE over most others.
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There should be some number on the back of the speaker. If they are Jensen's they will be 220XXX there should also be a number like C12N or summin.....
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haven't had a chance to really mess with it yet. ill put it on the bench and power it up tonight
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