Damini's Carboot Challenge!

[Wilier]

Wow, a tape recorder that looks like 2 cats, cool.

Anyway, me an Mrs Wil trudged round Hemswell, and Im afraid I partially failed. I did make 3 purchases, but in total it cost £8.70, so I can only list one item.

1off wool effect cat sleeper hanging on a radiator type thing (you need to see the piccy) £2.50

1off joint of gammon, sadly now been eaten. £3.20

and the real bargain of the day.

1off origional, boxed with all the CD codes, still in the cellophane (sp??) copy of Half-Life Generations. This is brand new ffs. I donty think the woman was supposed to be selling it. Up at £5, haggled her down to £3. Im a mean haggler me. She wasnt gonna budge, but I told her it was a couple of years old, and that no-one plays it anymore.

Summo is teh wimp0r


So, the only item I can sell, is te cat bed thing. Any offers from the kitten owners amongst you?

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Originally posted by WPKenny
I got an ancient reel 2 reel tape recorder. Cost: £1

Still works although it's missing a plug. But it's so cool that it takes batteries and I powered it up and the tape it came with has got some church service on it. Utterly bizarre!

What make? What size tape does it take, and if you pop off the head cover, how many heads does it have?

 

[Damini]

It's really old, just an upgrade from tinny sounding "Mary had a little lamb" recordings. It doesn't take tapes. It just has a reel you record onto. As for a "make" on the bottom it has a plaque that reads

" VOICE OPERATION TAPERECORDER SOLID STATE (8 TRANSISTOR)

Oooh, found a Philips name on the reel.... but thats just the reel.

 

[WPKenny]

Just found Damini sneaking off with my purchase....

It's pretty funky really. I made a test recording and the sound quality is pretty damn good.

I can see it on my webcam....can't anyone else?

 

[Wilier]

Originally posted by WPKenny
Just found Damini sneaking off with my purchase....

It's pretty funky really. I made a test recording and the sound quality is pretty damn good.

I can see it on my webcam....can't anyone else?

NO, its them goddam cutsie kitten jedi's again.

(i think they need a nice hang-on-the-radiator type bed)



Hey, it just changed.

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Uh, the reels are tape, they should be removable, normally by removing a small holder on each of the spindles, from kennycam it looks like 2cm, but the picture isn't the easiest to see. If you can find a name, I can give you an idea of price, someone I work with is heavily into the old analog tape recorders. Looking at it again, I think it might be a 'Cossor' make, but I have no idea as to the model.

 

[Damini]

Pluscorder 800?

Does that make sense?

 

[WPKenny]

The only logo I can find on the thing is a P with the lower stem of it crossed to look like a plus sign. Hence the name Pluscorder?

I haven't bothered looking anything up about it but I'll give it a gander now.

 

[WPKenny]

Here's an image of the only one I've found that's close to looking like the one I have...

Description : "Ambassador 3in. Reel to Reel done in chrome with a hinged cover"


On closer inspection of that picture, it seems to have pretty much all the features of my one. Although the lay out is slightly different.

//edit: On even closer inspection it has EXACTLY the same features as my one. Same holes, same button in the same places. Similar looking knobs. Only mine's a different brand name. I guess it's some sort of clone???

Any help here Scooba?

//another edit: I've updated the webcam pic to a similar angle to the pic above. Hopefully you can see the similarities.

 

[Damini]

Hmmm....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=890845059



Anyway, I'm all registered on e-bay, so tonight, aided by digicam, hopefully I will be The Only Contendor In Daminis Carboot Challenge!!!












You lazy bastards.

 

[granny]

For some reason that link points to "CHAMPAGNE CASES FULL OF UNSEARCHED EMERALDS!!", current bid $15.95.

Nicely surreal but clearly a tad mislinkaged

 

[~YuckFou~]

YUO AER TEH WIN¬"!"

 

[JohnyWishbone]

I'm sorry, it wasnt laziness though. Mrs Wishbone promptly reminded me about the fence which had blown down, me and the neighbour had agreed to repair it at the weekend.

So I couldnt get out of it despite me pleading to goto a car boot sale.

 

[Skyler]

Originally posted by Damini

*The Giant David Dickinson Smites All those Who Do Not Play With His Giant Magnifying Glass*

lol was just thinking of that tv show...

nice idea tho, but im unable to do it

 

[Damini]

Originally posted by granny
For some reason that link points to "CHAMPAGNE CASES FULL OF UNSEARCHED EMERALDS!!", current bid $15.95.

Nicely surreal but clearly a tad mislinkaged

Nope, that was my intention. Its suddenly made me realise what a big void there is in my life, that only a box of treasure could solve...


It has to be a huge con.

Doesn't it?

Someone?

Before I start making jewelry from mouldy Green (TM Blackadder)

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Originally posted by WPKenny
Any help here Scooba?

//another edit: I've updated the webcam pic to a similar angle to the pic above. Hopefully you can see the similarities.

Apparently it is a clone of a generic type of reel to reel recorder, it has no capstan, and is mono only, which kinda limits it's value to anything but a curio. You may be able to make a bit of cash on it selling it under the Electronic Music section as 'Ideal for a digital recording artist looking to regain some analog warmth' or some bollocks, depends if you can con someone really.

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Oh, and I'll stick up my 45 later tonight, I've had a mate offer me 50 quid for it, but hopefully I can make a bit more than that via Ebay.

 

[granny]

Originally posted by Damini



Nope, that was my intention. Its suddenly made me realise what a big void there is in my life, that only a box of treasure could solve...


It has to be a huge con.

Doesn't it?

Someone?

Before I start making jewelry from mouldy Green (TM Blackadder)

How odd... you're right, it's got "CON" written all over it. The 32-point bold, coloured fonts liberally scattered all over it like, well, like a champagne crate full of unsearched Columbian emeralds is a bit of a giveaway but I'm at a loss to extract exactly *how* it's a con. Maybe it'd cost $1000's to polish & cut them, a service that is handily advertised there too

 

[Munkey-]

perhaps their somebodys gall stones?

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Originally posted by Munkey-
perhaps their somebodys gall stones?

perhaps they're somebody's gall stones?

English is gonna be so cross when it learns about you!

 

[Summo]

I have a spare capital 'P' knocking around. Feel free to use it.

 

[Damini]

People in stone houses Robin... Honestly

Originally posted by Summo
I have a spare capital 'P' knocking around. Feel me to use it.

Heh....







Do you think a first class stamp would cover my box of emeralds? I really really want a box of emeralds now. Its like the time I thought I'd found clay, but it was actually poo... But the excitement of clay!! But the smell of poo... But I digress. I want a box of treasure.

 

[caLLous]

I used to play in a catshit-infested sandpit.


/Edit: Stone houses Damini?

 

[granny]

Originally posted by Damini
Do you think a first class stamp would cover my box of emeralds? I really really want a box of emeralds now. Its like the time I thought I'd found clay, but it was actually poo... But the excitement of clay!! But the smell of poo... But I digress. I want a box of treasure.

My garden is made of clay. Tons and tons and tons of the stuff.

There's quite a lot of cat poo too though.

But it's mostly clay. I'm sure.

 

[~YuckFou~]

There is no such thing as Spanish champagne, the box in the ad is a sherry box.

 

[Damini]

Originally posted by caLLous



/Edit: Stone houses Damini?

Yes, erm, stone houses... shouldn't walk around bare foot... because... blisters. And chaffing.

 

[Trem]

Hehehehehe Damini, you thought cat poo was clay, made me laugh stupid amounts, ahhhhhhh will you southerners ever learn?
I live in CLAYton and clay in my garden is bad I tells ya.

 

[Damini]

Who ever said it was cat poo?

I didn't.

 

[Trem]

Ok sorry, it was a non specific poo, I got my lines crossed, pff.

 

[Damini]

The story commences...


As a child at school we found a little patch of ground where the grass didn't grow. So we settled down and dug, until we hit odd colour soil, which we assumed was clay. Every break we'd scuttle out there with cuts of water, and rehydrate this "clay" and make little things as presents, then leave them to dry in the sun. I made a little hedgehog for my mum, and a pen holder for my teacher. Then one day, a curious dinner lady comes over to our factory, and grabs us up in horror.

"My goodness, you children stink! What *are* you playing with??"

She makes us throw down our latest works of art, and we get dragged into the nurses office, doused in TCP and our parents are phoned.

We had discovered not purest clay, but infact the location of the old out door toilet.




Mrs Cooper was never told that her pen holder was made from human faeces.





Story over..... resume normal service...