why you should tell friends to save you electronic stuff :)

Another reason to tell your friends, AND follow up on leads, is that if you dont, you will hear later about the stuff they sent to the "dumpster", as I unfortunately did. I heard a story of an old man that had closed his radio shop in the 1960s and had a garage FULL of NEW old tubes in their boxes. He lived just a few blocks from me. He was planning on cleaning the garage out and throwing the stuff away. I quized my friend and he assured me this was first hand information. I didnt want to come off as a "Vulture" but I really didnt want the stuff to be thrown out either so I asked if he would ask the guy if he would sell the lot to me. I forgot about it and a few months later I learned that the old guy had died and the entire garage full of parts and tubes and radios had gone into the dumpster because his kin "knew" that tubes were now worthless since the invention of the transistor and Integrated Circuit. Its enough to make you cry. On 7/19/06, Philip Pemberton <philpem at dsl.pipex.com> wrote: -- Jim Isbell "If you are not living on the edge, well then, you are just taking up too much space."