OT: The Beginning of the End

In what sense are they retro?

Well there have been pretend record players on sale for some time, some looking a bit more up market as if they were trying to emulate the old Dynatron furniture look. Trouble is the beauty is just the cabinet , the innards being the usual crappy cheap stuff you get dirt cheap in tesco portable stereos in my experience. Even the speakers are crap. I'm sure there has to be a market in look like old stuff, but then when you consider how many were made, surely there must still be some around. The black watch of course could be bought as a kit to make yourself. It looked mighty fiddly and of course used red LEDs so had only the time when you pressed the button. I doubt the batteries are still made.

On talking clocks, I still have an original Sharp talking time working here, its a travel alarm stopwatch and all sorts of other things made in 1983, the year when CDs started to be available. OK its voice is robotic, but it worked very well, and still will. Brian

There is a market for quality old stuff. Twice a year a sale is held in a big hall in Tonbridge, called AudioJumble. There you will find quality audio kit from the 60s and 70s. I went once to see what was up and got the business cards of a couple of dealers, to one of whom I sold most of my kit I'd bought back then. Still got the speakers, mind.

We're not talking about crappy cheap stuff, here.

A genuine ladderax shelving unit was donated to the Worthing BHS shop and they sold it on ebay for about £940 just before the lockdown.

Is this the place where you have to pay a lot more to get in early (to get the bargains), then cheaper as the day progresses ?.

Well they certainly do that.

In message <rbinb6$1eal$ snipped-for-privacy@gioia.aioe.org>, at 13:42:15 on Sun, 7 Jun

Just one section; shelves, or cabinets too?

I sold a ladderax ladder on eBay about a year ago and the buyer was cheeky enough to claim it was a fake (apparently the rung spacing wasn't what he expected). But as I told him, it'd been in the family since the 60's!

I got fed up of the nylon or leather staps failing and bought my Casio

I don't think the light works though it's over 4yrs since I replaced the battery.

About 10/12 feet long, with about 6 cabinets, dark cherry wood, proper brass locks on all the doors, several shelves that had no sagging, so pretty strong stuff.

I have a 'ladderax unit', but it was made by a company in essex called Brianco, I think. It has the side metal ladders, but rather than horizontal bars the clip onto the ladders, with the shelves or cabinets sitting on them, my shelves and units have metal clips that are hammered into slots at the end of each unit that project out about half an inch but are shaped like a backless 'P' so they sit on the ladders.

In message <rblc9q$1pn5$ snipped-for-privacy@gioia.aioe.org>, at 13:52:12 on Mon, 8 Jun

I'd call mine dark pine coloured.

Each section is 3ft. Although there are some rare 2ft examples.

You can't do 10ft in two sections, so it has to be 3x3 = 9ft, or 4x3=