The current unit on the bench went on "the list" 4 years ago.
In the early years, the line was a set of shelves of other people's stuff to do, which was just too discouraging to see every day.
I celebrated when all those units were back with their owners.
Now the list is virtual, and people's stuff doesn't come in until it is to be worked on.
UNFORTUNATELY:
Those shelves and more are now full of stuff I couldn't pass up and had to rescue. UNrescued... or in limbo...
For example, there was a Spec-4 that went up on eBay years ago, in great shape with an electronic fault I KNEW I could fix quickly.
The fault was described in the listing, and cripes, I could SEE the cause in the picture!!!
I figured to turn it around quickly, using a CC to finance the initial purchase.
Figured I'd wait longer for the eBay listing to sell, than the fix (2 or 3 days on the bench!!).
After all, NO switches to disassemble and polish or nuke in the cleaner, or other time consuming stuff.
Just some parts trades, regreasing and stringent cleaning....
The idiot packed it VERY poorly. Swore up and down it was packed correctly, after all he was a professional shipping and eBay consignment business!!!
FRAME damage. Internal parts SMASHED together. Photo documented. BEFORE UPS came to pick it up to inspect for damage claim.
After they inspected, denied the claim, and then RESHIPPED IT BACK TO THE SELLER in the same cruddy packaging, now even MORE compromised.
HE eventually refunded the $$ when I got eBay involved.
Then I bought the wreckage.
That is just one story... of many... and why I stalk eBay for all sorts of weird Pioneer parts.
I have a SX-1280, rather a SX-1280's worth of parts that have, as of yet, never formally met each other. Someday I plan to introduce them.
I even have a SX-1980, with a power supply that I strongly suspect NEVER saw the factory!!!!
Of course it isn't working, and I have a FACTORY power supply for it waiting in the wings.
(Sometimes people sell things in bunches that they have no idea what they are)
The SX-1980 died because the idiot that last worked on the amp board LOST one of two plastic rivets
and reused a BUSTED second rivet that holds the Power Amplifier board in place.
So the FIRST time that heavy unit got a thump while being moved (inevitable) the amp board broke loose
and when turned on, ka-ZAP...
He couldn't even spare two tie-wraps to secure the board? Even a knotted piece of hook up wire???
That was before I got it obviously, I saw the loose board, said AH HAH, and it has never received power.
Yes, the outputs survived, the drivers didn't.
well, enough storytelling for tonight...
Merry Christmas to all, this early Christmas Eve......
