Old Wooden intercom system from abandoned school!!! WORKS!!

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TRC-911

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A friend was cleaning out their garage and let me have this great bounty-He picked it out from a leaning abandoned school in the woods back in the 70's and kept it till now! It all works but needs a good cleaning! I think it still has tubes or whathave you?!?! Need the extra $$$ so I have to let it go! Maybe somebody will put it to good use? Or Restore them!!!

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bill

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could probably make a interesting low wattage guitar amp out of that. seems to be a pretty popular thing to do with old pa systems like this now.
some of them sell for pretty good money too.
 

Arkay

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Dang, that's a cool-looking PA system. If you were in Hong Kong, I'd gladly take it off your hands and restore it, but shipping costs make it not worthwhile from anywhere else. BE CAREFUL around those old tube amps, though, if you aren't familiar with them: turning them on after they've sat unused a long time can cause aged capacitors to literally blow up, and there are lethal voltages in some of them. In some ungrounded ones, the chassis can be "live" and electrocute you! Best thing is to not even plug it in at all, until it has been thoroughly checked over by a competent repair guy/restorer. IF you do plug it in, do it with a light bulb in series with it. That's called a "poor man's variac", and can prevent a lot of trouble.

Love the old-fashioned styling of those speaker-grill bars! Good luck finding a buyer. I hope it goes into the hands of someone who will restore the system, rather than just grab the amps and scrap the rest. That happens all too often, and a complete system like yours is a real rarity today. It made my day, just to see it!

[Here's a tip: an item like that, fully restored, can sometimes be rented to movie studios seeking to re-create "period" interiors. If it is used in a scene, not just a background prop, the money from renting it could more than repay the cost of getting and restoring it!]
 
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