Looking for manual for GE Blockbuster

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Starfire

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Like the topic says look for any manual, service manual, schematic for GE Blockbuster 3-5259a

Thanks!!
 

Starfire

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Hmm nothing huh? Figured with as popular as this box is there'd be one floating around. I don't believe I saw one online to purchase or download.
 

jusnobody

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Superduper said:
The OP posted the question 2 years ago. It was just revived because this new nobody guy has 10 posts (& counting), each & every post linking to the same manuals website.
You sound as if you are somehow pissed off that I replied to those posts with some useful information. I hope that is not the case.

I signed up on this forum many years ago, but seldom visited it. Last night I happened to check it out and found my old registration was no longer valid so I signed up again.

I spent a couple hours answering some posts that apparently had no useful answers provided by anybody else over the past year or two. So I answered and gave a link to where they could find what they were asking for. Isn't that the supposed purpose of audio forums.... for one member to provide useful information to other members? At least that is what I always thought audio forums primary purpose was intended to be.

The reason the links are to StereoManuals is because there is a very large number of manuals available and all are listed in easy to use strict alpha-numeric order. PLUS because StereoManuals is considered by many as one of the last places on the planet that reliably provides very high quality physical printed reproduction manuals. They are highly recommended by many vintage audio techs in many countries and also by many at the 250,000 member AudioKarma.org site.

If my posts are not welcome here, I guess I can go away and not check the site again for another 3-5 years....
 

Superduper

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The point of my post was

1. to clarify to Eric (member Caution) that the OP probably no longer needs help because this thread is 2 years old

and

2. that I noticed you have 10 posts recently (and in total) and all seem to be for the expressed purpose of directing traffic to another website. It would be easy to come to that conclusion because you have no other posts. It's up to you if you want to continue participating here, but if your M.O. is to simply continue the same without any other form of participation, I assure you that everyone here is already perfectly capable of searching for something on google and such behavior might be viewed upon as spamming.
 

jusnobody

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The point of my post was

1. to clarify to member Caution that the OP probably no longer needs help because this thread is 2 years old

and

2. that I noticed you have 10 posts recently (and in total) and all seem to be for the expressed purpose of directing traffic to another website. It would be easy to come to that conclusion because you have no other posts. It's up to you if you want to continue participating here, but if your M.O. is to simply continue the same without any other form of participation, I assure you that everyone here is already perfectly capable of searching for something on google and such behavior might be viewed upon as spamming.
Excuse me.... I could certainly be wrong, but it appears to me as if you are just basically pissed of that someone would mention some manuals website other than your own. I hope I'm wrong, but that is exactly what it looks like.

How could you possibly know if the original poster might still need the information or not? Is it some gigantic waste of the planet's resources to post one single link in a reply to a message that supplies the information that the original poster originally asked about, but possibly might not still need? Is there some unknown internet rule that I'm not aware of that limits how long a person has to respond to some other person's post?? If so, please let me know so I can work on advising hundreds /thousands of other websites that are also violating that rule.

The original post was not 2 years old, but close... and I intentionally did not go any further precisely because of the age of the various posts. That said, I'm also aware that "tons" of folks have things like a boombox lying around for years that the owner has some intent in the future to repair when time allows and/or the service information becomes available.

Unless I am sadly mistaken, I believe I saw other posts where somebody was looking for some manual, and some of them had a reply a year or two later where somebody else supplied a source for the "1-2 year old" request. Were they somehow violating the rules of this forum, or are you just pissed off because I answered 8-10 of them last night? Is there a limit to how many posts a person is allowed to respond to????

Actually, "the express purpose" of the posts was to try to be helpful and to direct the poster (if still interested) to a source for the information they had posted about, AND that apparently nobody else was able or willing to supply to them... AND to reference a highly reliable source for the info they were looking for.

Unless I am sadly mistaken, there are many links on this site to your completely unorganized, disjointed, wreck of a website. Is that ok with you? Do you complain about them? Or are you just upset if a post points to some other source other than you???

You can "assure me" that "everyone here is already perfectly capable of searching for something on google", but apparently nobody on this site was capable or willing to use Google to find the information the poster was requesting. I mean seriously.... 6 months... 1 year... 2 years... WHY, WHY, WHY would not some other member do a Google search and supply a source for the original poster? Why didn't you???? The links I posted were to information that has been on that site for many many years. If you were interested in helping the original poster, you could have spent your time finding that source and posting the link yourself. But you didn't did you?

Might it be because Google doesn't always do a good job of providing accurate information? Might it be because Google search results are often horribly inefficient and/or rigged to point search results to particular sites? Might it be because the information being searched for may be on google, but might be 10-20-50 screens deep in the search results?

Is there is a policy on this forum that any references for manuals sources must be to free pdf sites or file transfer services only? If so, somebody please state that. I could then promise that I will never visit this site again so that I might never be tempted to break some rule. I already know it's OK to post references to your site for pricey pdf files, but are you the one and only exception???? Must all others must be free sites or never mentioned here????
 

jusnobody

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Superduper said:
Dude, I think you got some serious issues..... you should probably see somebody about that.
Really??

You are the one who started disparging me for supplying answers to a few posts on this site.

It seems to me that you didn't like it because the answers did not point to your site.

I replied to you with precise and exact statement. But you reply with generalities and more insults.

So my reply is......

Dude, I think you don't have the integrity to respond properly.

If you have integrity, it would simply be sufficient for you to apologize for you initial response and thank me for offering help to members of this site.
 

Reli

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Did you contact the forum adminstrator to ask if he has a policy about advertising? (Note: I don't know what that policy may be, but I know that many (if not most) forums have a policy saying that anyone who advertises needs to either be an official sponsor, or contact the administrator first)
 

jusnobody

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Reli said:
Did you contact the forum adminstrator to ask if he has a policy about advertising? (Note: I don't know what that policy may be, but I know that many (if not most) forums have a policy saying that anyone who advertises needs to either be an official sponsor, or contact the administrator first)
I assume you are directing that remark to me??

Nobody is advertising.

I answered a few posts to folks looking for manuals.

Are you joining "superduper" in being offended that I supplied some information to some posts that nobody else seemed interested in enough to supply them an answer.
 

caution

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The users who posted those requests wanted a free copy.
We all know this, except apparently you. So, if nobody has one, nobody responds.
Any fool can google "service manual" and find ways to pay for one.
 

jusnobody

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baddboybill said:
I believe what the guys are trying to get at is an introduction first. Or at least a 1st post about collecting or something. ;-)
Soooooo.... if I decided to provide an answer to some posts on this site, it would only be ok if I first said...

"I have some boomboxes and my first one was from the 1970's".

Then answering someone's questions would have been acceptable?????

I seriously do not understand the attitudes on this site.

caution said:
The users who posted those requests wanted a free copy.
We all know this, except apparently you. So, if nobody has one, nobody responds.
Any fool can google "service manual" and find ways to pay for one.
Sorry, but you are INCORRECT.

Some of the posts clearly were looking for any source free or not. Additionally, many other posts about looking for manuals are answered by superduper or other members pointing the poster to analogalley and sometimes other pay site.

And "any fool" can NOT always google xyz "service manual" and find a source. Are you new to the internet?

My suggestion to you is to think before you reply.
 

baddboybill

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I believe what the guys are trying to get at is an introduction first. Or at least a 1st post about collecting or something. ;-)
Soooooo.... if I decided to provide an answer to some posts on this site, it would only be ok if I first said...

"I have some boomboxes and my first one was from the 1970's".

Then answering someone's questions would have been acceptable?????

I seriously do not understand the attitudes on this site.

Yes an introduction would have been appropriate!!!! As for attitudes we are all brothers and sisters here and most of us have been around for many years.. Superduper (Norm) has been an assett not only here but S2G for probably 10 years. Him and others have helped hundreds of members so if you think or feel like he owes an apology to a newbie who didnt even introduce himself properly, well..........its just not gonna happen!!!
 

jusnobody

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baddboybill said:
I believe what the guys are trying to get at is an introduction first. Or at least a 1st post about collecting or something. ;-)
Soooooo.... if I decided to provide an answer to some posts on this site, it would only be ok if I first said...

"I have some boomboxes and my first one was from the 1970's".

Then answering someone's questions would have been acceptable?????

I seriously do not understand the attitudes on this site.

Yes an introduction would have been appropriate!!!! As for attitudes we are all brothers and sisters here and most of us have been around for many years.. Superduper (Norm) has been an assett not only here but S2G for probably 10 years. Him and others have helped hundreds of members so if you think or feel like he owes an apology to a newbie who didnt even introduce himself properly, well..........its just not gonna happen!!!
So what is wrong with you?

I freely answered the questions of a few posters who had not had any responses from any others members.

And your response is to rag on my ass for giving an accurate answer to the original poster about what he asked for?

Seriously.... I mean seriously... what the hell is wrong with you?

Maybe the site owner can post some prominent message saying that nobody is allowed to answer any questions of any other member unless they first say how much they love boomboxes or some other appropriate words that would meet the standards of every other member who might be offended.

Jeeesh......

The more this really really stupid thread goes on, the more I think I will take any opportunity in the future to warn people off this site.
 
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