Berlin Mini-Meet (Zippy and mmcodomino)

Yeah, it was a real mini-mini-meet. He came over tonight because we wanted to fix his Crown 850 .

I picked him up with Herbie cause his bus just drove off in front of him.
Then after doing a little soundcheck, especially on the Lasonic 975, we opened up his Crown to install a donor tape door from my parts box.
It worked after fiddling a little, but the door wopuld not stay closed because the eject lever was weird somehow.
We fixed that and while putting it back together a mount for a screw broke .
So some second glue fixed that and then it was fully up and running again except for the tape deck which had cut wires inside .
But FM works nice and so does Phono so it is a great box now.



And it was the first time 3 nice Crown gathered in my shelf :



I also gave him my parts box because he has a custom idea with it. I am sure he is going to have fun with. It rescued two other 850s now so it is time to get customized now .
When Zippy wanted to leave, he hooked up both boxes to his strap and BOOM it broke and both fell on the floor :'-(
At first: Shock! Both nice boxes are broken now! :'-(
BUT: These are heavy duty! None of them have even a little damage .
That is why wooden floor rocks .

Now Zippy just left with two big boomboxes to bring home on the bus. I hope both make their trip safe and arrive in the same condition they left my house .
It was a lot of fun, thanks for coming over Zippy, I am always happy to fix up boxes for you .

Great times . And how your 5 screw brackets are holding this load . Its really cool to can help a boombox brother. Respect Max .

Everything back home safe! Great evening! I got picked up by Herbie, drank a beer and painted the floor with a black text marker while Max fixed my Crown and - on top - gave me his parts box
Also I learned stuff. Thanks for being so supportive, Max!

fun story

Max and Zippy are like the German equivalent of Ira and Monchito.

except max is only 12 years old !!!!!!

Fatdog said:

Max and Zippy are like the German equivalent of Ira and Monchito.

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Couldn't have said it better!


And regarding Ira's comment, does that mean Monchichi is twelve?

redbenjoe said:

except max is only 12 years old !!!!!!

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Yeah, the age gap is smaller, Freddi (Zippy) is not 112 years old like Ira .

Zippy said:

Everything back home safe! Great evening! I got picked up by Herbie, drank a beer and painted the floor with a black text marker while Max fixed my Crown and - on top - gave me his parts box
Also I learned stuff. Thanks for being so supportive, Max!

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I am glad everything arrived safely . Have fun with your new Crown-Jewels .
The 850 just looks better with a tape door.

And next time dont get drunk and dropin boxes on the floor . Monchito and Ira have experience whit that. They know how to drop boxes properly. Its not that easy. But good first try . A new legendary boombox team is born .

sounds like a fun meet don't feel bad about the box falling ,i had a gf777 go out of it's way to do a back flip onto the floor luckily not one bit of damage though , i only turned around for a second then ,pow bang kablooey right on the floor i was tempted to throw that sumbitch out the window , glad you guys had a good time . nice collection man .