Soli528
New Member
Greetings everyone,
I just moved houses and found a couple of items that were sitting in storage, tabled for future projects. One such item is a Fairchild 240 preamp, pulled from my passed grandfather's collection (which also yielded a mint MX110 and MC240- the heart of my current system) that is in relatively very good condition, considering it's at least 50 years old. Here's the weird part- the power cord was corroded and brittle and gave me the "handful of bees" feeling when I bundled it up in one hand. I can't imagine there's current stored in the caps or anything after all of this time, but there's no mistaking that sensation. Anyway, I cut off the cord and took a look inside, and it looks pretty clean, considering. Does anyone out there have any experience with these, or know a value for one in good condition? It has the oddest/coolest potentiometer (bass/treb) knobs I've seen- very 50's. It does need the powercord replaced. I really have no use for it. please advise if anyone has an interest. Best wishes to all-
Soli
I just moved houses and found a couple of items that were sitting in storage, tabled for future projects. One such item is a Fairchild 240 preamp, pulled from my passed grandfather's collection (which also yielded a mint MX110 and MC240- the heart of my current system) that is in relatively very good condition, considering it's at least 50 years old. Here's the weird part- the power cord was corroded and brittle and gave me the "handful of bees" feeling when I bundled it up in one hand. I can't imagine there's current stored in the caps or anything after all of this time, but there's no mistaking that sensation. Anyway, I cut off the cord and took a look inside, and it looks pretty clean, considering. Does anyone out there have any experience with these, or know a value for one in good condition? It has the oddest/coolest potentiometer (bass/treb) knobs I've seen- very 50's. It does need the powercord replaced. I really have no use for it. please advise if anyone has an interest. Best wishes to all-
Soli