Gone in 60 seconds

[slonezp]

Today is garbage day eve. I bought a sound bar yesterday. Decided to move into the digital age. Put a circa mid 1980's Sony surround sound system at the curb. Went to the backyard to throw dinner on the grill. Come back to the front of the house and poof! What kills me is I probably paid 3 times as much for the 1980's system than I did for the sound bar.

[Michigander]

22 minutes ago, slonezp said:

Today is garbage day eve. I bought a sound bar yesterday. Decided to move into the digital age. Put a circa mid 1980's Sony surround sound system at the curb. Went to the backyard to throw dinner on the grill. Come back to the front of the house and poof! What kills me is I probably paid 3 times as much for the 1980's system than I did for the sound bar.

Keeps it out of the landfill!

[gim]

Lol it’s amazing what some people try to unload by simply placing at the end of their driveway. Most of what I see tends to be old junky furniture that they probably don’t want to pay to get rid of and are hoping some poor schmuck comes along and takes it.

[Stasher1]

Was just discussing this earlier today with a coworker as I toured a large recycling facility.

 

When we redid the kitchen and living room half-bath in our previous house, we placed the old fixtures, range hood, etc out by the street on trash day eve. It was all gone within a couple hours. Scrappers will pick up anything that'll make them a buck or two.

[.ghoti.]

A few years ago, we bought new washer and dryer. The old ones worked fine. Wife wanted new ones. I hauled the old one out to the alley with a sigh saying they worked and were free for the taking. They sat there for several days. I moved them to the street late one evening with a for sale sign on them. They were gone before midnight. 

 

[BrianMDTX]

46 minutes ago, .ghoti. said:

A few years ago, we bought new washer and dryer. The old ones worked fine. Wife wanted new ones. I hauled the old one out to the alley with a sigh saying they worked and were free for the taking. They sat there for several days. I moved them to the street late one evening with a for sale sign on them. They were gone before midnight. 

 

That’s the secret. “Free” means junk. “For Sale” and someone will take it in a New York second!

[Raider Nation Fisher]

On 5/26/2021 at 7:31 PM, slonezp said:

Today is garbage day eve. I bought a sound bar yesterday. Decided to move into the digital age. Put a circa mid 1980's Sony surround sound system at the curb. Went to the backyard to throw dinner on the grill. Come back to the front of the house and poof! What kills me is I probably paid 3 times as much for the 1980's system than I did for the sound bar.

I'm impressed you held out that long. Should have kept the 80s model. Back when surround sound used to come with actual subs. Decent subs at that. I had a friend in high-school, that bought two huge home stereo speakers at the pawn shop. He hooked an amp to each sub, wired them to his car stereo, left them in their cabinets, and threw them in his trunk. It was like that old school song, King Kong in the Trunk. 

[12poundbass]

12 hours ago, Raider Nation Fisher said:

I'm impressed you held out that long. Should have kept the 80s model. Back when surround sound used to come with actual subs. Decent subs at that. I had a friend in high-school, that bought two huge home stereo speakers at the pawn shop. He hooked an amp to each sub, wired them to his car stereo, left them in their cabinets, and threw them in his trunk. It was like that old school song, King Kong in the Trunk. 

My brother had an 18” sub that was in a gigantic box and put it in the back of his Mazda 323. There wasn’t much room for much of anything after that. We just wired it directly to the stereo, no amp. We still thought we were cool. ?

[MN Fisher]

31 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

My brother had an 18” sub that was in a gigantic box and put it in the back of his Mazda 323. There wasn’t much room for much of anything after that. We just wired it directly to the stereo, no amp. We still thought we were cool. ?

Gods, that reminds me of something me and a friend did when I was in the Air Force.

 

We hooked up the Infinity speakers from his home system to his car's system that had some mongo amps. Put them facing up in the back seat of his '67 Dart GT convertible with the top down. Drove around downtown Omaha, NE at 2am blaring 'Flight of the Valkyries' at full volume - about 110-120db. The looks we got from the streetwalkers was hilarious.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

6 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

My brother had an 18” sub that was in a gigantic box and put it in the back of his Mazda 323. There wasn’t much room for much of anything after that. We just wired it directly to the stereo, no amp. We still thought we were cool. ?

I was absolutely astounded it actually worked. I figured the amp would have blown them. That's dope, bet that 18 still bumped in the back of that Mazda, even with no amp. 

 

5 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

Gods, that reminds me of something me and a friend did when I was in the Air Force.

 

We hooked up the Infinity speakers from his home system to his car's system that had some mongo amps. Put them facing up in the back seat of his '67 Dart GT convertible with the top down. Drove around downtown Omaha, NE at 2am blaring 'Flight of the Valkyries' at full volume - about 110-120db. The looks we got from the streetwalkers was hilarious.

That's hysterical!! I bet the night hens were gawking!!!! That sounds about like something I would have done too. 

[Way2slow]

From 1976 to 1980, I was doing most of the sound equipment warranty repair work in northern Italy, and southern Germany for almost all the manufactures, all the Japanese, a lot of the US and other countries.  In doing so, I was able to get killer deals on most anything one could want.  If a piece of equipment had a major malfunction that was going to take some time and major parts tor repair, they would just swap it out for a new piece.  I would turn around and buy it for pennies on the dollar.  I'm talking $25 -$35 for $400 - $500 pieces of equipment.  This was all top of the line equipment back then.   The nice part about that deal, I got all my repair parts free.  I would just send in a list of parts I was running low on, they shipped them, so It didn't cost me anything to repair.  Most of this equipment would be less than 30 days old.  I did sell a lot of equipment on the Italian market, (a little black market dealing) and that was a nice source for extra income.  

So, needless to say, I wound up with some very nice stereo equipment when I left Italy.  

My wife is wanting me to clean out the area I have this stuff stored, so I was looking on ebay to see if it was worth anything. 

Surprise, Surprise, that stuff is going for ungodly prices now.  Pioneer Turntables, $750, Kenwood Amps $500, Teac 4 channel Real to Reals, $700, and the list goes on.  This stuff is still like new and most is still in the factory boxes.

If the wife saw that, I would never hear the end of it, until it was all gone, which I have decided when I get time to go through each piece for sound and quality checks, it will go.  Which  also still have a major stash of circuit boards and repair parts for all of it.  

[Bankbeater]

I've gotten rid of two old lawn mowers by sitting them on the curb the day before trash day. If someone wants to spend the time and money to rebuild them, then go for it.