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Garage Sale 500c

dokblues said:
Nice Score Jeff! Thats going to be a really nice one. Great score on the albums too that country joe is a keeper and the beck as well as that Super Sessions and the Bloomfield,Hammond. Can`t wait to see her after the clean up!
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Amazingly the albums without the outer sleeves are the real killers! I grabbed some Savoy Brown, more Keith Jarrett, and many more.

I worked on the faceplate a bit tonight, it is cleaning up real nice!
 
That is so funny because there are a lot of people that would pass those by in a heartbeat. I have found quite a few really, really nice loose records that I am sure a lot of people wouldn't even give a second glance.
 
Yea Scroe! Every time I read about a G-sale or thrift score here on AK the first thing my eyes do is bounce up to see where the poster is located.... you know to see if it's my own home town that I missed out on :tears: . But hey I'm happy anyone here gets a good deal. :thmbsp:
 
Schweet! You are a happy man. Not much more to say. I would not go too crazy with the chassis. Spend some money on a cabinet and it won't matter one bit. Enjoy!
 
Helluva score! $20 for a 500C!? Yeah, I'll take if the tubes are original...:lmao: I think you beat my 500C score pretty good. Wood cab for sure. :thmbsp:
 
sloober said:
Schweet! You are a happy man. Not much more to say. I would not go too crazy with the chassis. Spend some money on a cabinet and it won't matter one bit. Enjoy!
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You are probably right. Wow it looks like they go for a lot on d bay.

cubby01 said:
Yea Scroe! Every time I read about a G-sale or thrift score here on AK the first thing my eyes do is bounce up to see where the poster is located.... you know to see if it's my own home town that I missed out on :tears: . But hey I'm happy anyone here gets a good deal. :thmbsp:
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Check out the CL garage sales for Minneapolis/St Paul - there are a couple that are selling lots of rocords.

This one had all kinds of guy stuff - wire feed welders, motorcycle boots and helmets, Hawaiian shirts, on and on. In my haste to do the nannerdance I forgot to check out his vintage rock tshirts. Dang.

Jailtime said:
Helluva score! $20 for a 500C!? Yeah, I'll take if the tubes are original...:lmao: I think you beat my 500C score pretty good. Wood cab for sure. :thmbsp:
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lol, yeah I was pretty lucky. Last year I was on a run in my neighborhood and stopped into a sale - and sprinted home to get $40 for a quad Pioneer integrated and a Teac RTR. This one I think is a bit better.

DENNYDOG said:
That is so funny because there are a lot of people that would pass those by in a heartbeat. I have found quite a few really, really nice loose records that I am sure a lot of people wouldn't even give a second glance.
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I would have passed them by too but the seller saw that I had a Bloomfield in my hand, and he said he had some more in the loose box. I had 10 with jackets and 14 without, $28. I'm playing a Savoy Brown right now but most of the rest need a cleaning.
 
Congratulations on the gift from Lady Luck! You never know when the next score is going to come.

About ten years ago, I worked with a consultant who said he had a friend who wanted to get rid of some old radio stuff. The next day, his friend showed up with an FM modulation meter for the non-broadcast bands, a transistorized, noise reduction unit, an input switch and a Scott 340-B (very similar to your Fisher) with the walnut cabinet! He didn't want any money for it, he just wanted it out of the house.

It had a blown fuse as a result of a bad diode. I replaced the fuse and the four silicon diodes with a diode bridge. It operated perfectly for several hours but one output redplated, so I shut it down and replaced all the coupling caps to the output tubes. It has a dodgy tape monitor switch that causes one channel to go out, but I have not found a brown slide switch yet to replace it with.

So if you have a working unit for $20, that is about what I paid for parts to get the thing up and running, so you may have an even better deal than mine! :beerchug:
 
It WORKS!

I brought a variac home from work and over the last 7 hours I've brought it up nice and easy.

I'm using my "test" speakers, a pair of Bose 101 outdoor monitors.

FM Mono is great, I probably need some kind of antennae for stereo.

Plugged my ipod dock cable into the Aux and let it play for about 30 minutes. I won't say it's stunning at this point - maybe I need some restoration work.

One of the type 47 bulbs is burned out so I don't know how close I'm getting to a stereo signal.

The display lights work too!

Any thoughts on the restoration kits one can buy on ebay? Maybe I'll try one of those.
 
How do you come up with something like that at a yardsale in a neighborhood that just barely has yards?

Good catch!
 
sloober said:
And if you want the power supply kit, get this. http://store.triodestore.com/sds500cbrdprts.html

I agree with JonL...McShane hooked me up. Used k40y coupling caps for the output...sounds great!John
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When I restored a Fisher for someone, I tried that kit since it wasn't much more expensive than the parts, and I wanted it to look as professional as possible, but I wouldn't buy one again.

It's supposed to screw onto the transformer bolts, and fit neatly under the chassis. I found that my transformer bolts were the wrong length. Even after modifying the bolts, there wasn't nearly enough room for the board to fit comfortably. I even had to cut a sheet of insulation to make sure nothing could short against the transformer.

In the end, it was much more time consuming to install than individual caps, and it looked less professional.
 
andy said:
When I restored a Fisher for someone, I tried that kit since it wasn't much more expensive than the parts, and I wanted it to look as professional as possible, but I wouldn't buy one again.

It's supposed to screw onto the transformer bolts, and fit neatly under the chassis. I found that my transformer bolts were the wrong length. Even after modifying the bolts, there wasn't nearly enough room for the board to fit comfortably. I even had to cut a sheet of insulation to make sure nothing could short against the transformer.

In the end, it was much more time consuming to install than individual caps, and it looked less professional.
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Wow, I had the opposite experience. The instructions are lacking for sure. I did have trouble mounting it, but figured a better way by using the vent holes right next to the TX bolts. I also used a sheet of insulation beneath the board to be safe. But after that, I had a very neat installation that fits fine beneath the cover. The first one I did took some time, but the next one will be easier. A couple months ago I wanted another for a second 800c I had, but they were on backorder. So I built caps up from scratch. It was tricky to fit the new caps in so it was not nearly as neat. If I was to do it again, I could likely do better, but I found the SDS board easier and quicker. Plus on my DIY upgrade I also had to deal with the rectifier and diodes as well.
To each his own, but I found it better when all said and done. John
 
Yeh,
I've done 500-Cs both ways, recancapping and SDS. For future ones, I'll use SDS. Yes, I mounted it on three standoffs instead of four and I had to "stretch" a mounting hole to get the third one fastened and fortunately there was no copper near the stretch, but it worked and solved a lot of problems in one shot. When you get the instructions and it shows the drawing of the board (the trace routing of the copper on the board), trace that drawing again on the back of that sheet of paper and it'll make a lot more sense. When someone set up the photostat copy, they did that piece backwards.

Given the choice, I'll use the SDS board with one caveat: I use hexfreds instead of the diodes that come with the board. Does that make a difference? Dunno, but that's how I did it.
 
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