This was a man I could have very easily have called a friend. A man after my own heart, really. Someone who believed in self-sufficiency, took care of his own scene, was not above getting his hands dirty and getting the job done. He saw a use for, and appreciated the value, of every little thing that came to hand. These are the sort of people that keep the world turning. May he rest in peace.
This isn't the workshop of a man who was all about getting the "job done" or "taking care of his own scene". It's the exact opposite. It's the same remains of someone with a compulsive hoarding disorder. Just piles of junk buried under more junk. Sure there's some "good stuff", but what good is it if it's completely inaccessible, buried under more junk? All of that stuff he got to "keep the world turning" is now being thrown out because of how disorganized it is. There's ways of collecting items, being self-sufficient and organized. This is not an example of one.
There are very few left these days that have enough of a knowledge of physics (yep the only field that really matters), to understand how to maintain everything around them. I'm not saying it makes sense to maintain all of it yourself, but it shows understanding.
If we are regularly watching Shango's videos I think we can all see ourselves in this position when we die. Aside from the large number of chemicals on the shelves in this video, this is my house, garage, basement and workshop. This man was awesome!! You would need a month to go through this place properly. The best stuff is really stashed away!!
And too bad the rest got hauled to the dump. It would have been nice if they held a freecycle week where they let anyone come and take what they wanted or had a need for and then recycle or trash the rest. Just my 2 cents though.
Not even 8mins in and I'm so depressed to know that all that stuff is just going to be given away and thrown out. That's someone's whole life in there, appreciate it can't all be saved & if you have no family/relatives can't handle dealing with the estate then sadly this kind of thing happens. Just a real shame, I'd be round there in a shot to save some useful kit & glad you've been given the chance to pick over and save some of the stuff. Ode2Pops said it well, a man after my own heart lived there. Just as well another man after my own heart is going to rescue some of the artefacts and useful/interesting stuff i can't.
That garage door remote had a 22½Volts battery in it. Great score of stuff. Pity that when someone passes away, most stuff will get dumped. Excellent video.
I'm getting up there myself. A few old tools both electronic and mechanical. My 1968 150 MHZ HP oscilloscope I still use to this day. DTL logic inside! My relatives have no use for my equipment. Enjoy yours while you can!
thanks Shango for documenting this. So even if this goes mostly to the landfill, at least a few people around the world can from now on admire this collection and honor the man who kept this stuff together.
Wow....every time, I hear someone has passed away, I am afraid. I love my junk too. This man, spent his life buying, collecting using, replacing all those items left behind. One day we are here.....the next...we are gone forever. My moms best friend was dying. She said 'You know , we spend our lives collecting "stuff"..."but when we go, EVERYTHING WE OWN, is left behind. We can't take one single thing with us"...and that depressed her to no end. She asked "was it all worth it" ? That scared me.
This garage reminds me of my grandfathers stuff, but on a much larger scale. Never threw out broken stuff either. Collected old screws and nails in glass jars. I swear I thought he was going to take all this stuff with him to the great beyond! Gonna need a bigger dumpster!😆😄😂 Nice variac find Shango! That is a nice little radial arm saw. You could build a replacement drawer for that sturdy chest of drawers! Ah, the good old days of home woodworking!
Man back when I was a young lad with a hard on every ten minutes, I fixed up an old shed behind the house. Ran some wire overhead and hooked it to the outdoor fuse box on our house, I wired in some plugs, and for a light in the bedroom (it was a two roomer, living room and bedroom when I finished) I used a old variable speed electric train transformer hooked up to a headlight, sort of aimed at one corner of the room with some red cloth in front of it to give the room that, well sexy glow. It worked! Got my first, well piece of ass from the girl across the street on that bed with that headlight glowing red, and the Doors crooning "Hello I Love You" on the little home built high fi that I parted together from parts of junked players I found in the city dump. I will never forget that day, I saw that gal about five years ago at her mom's funeral, man did I dodge the bullet with her! Man did she go down hill, looked like a wicked witch from the horror flicks, and she was cute as hell when we had our experience.
Wow, I would have had a field day there. I've seen many of those "help me I'm a hoarder" programs on tv but they never show a hoarder who would hoard the same things as I would, if my wife wouldn't keep me in check. There's a lot of actual valuable stuff in there, not just heaps of newspapers and old clothes that you often see. It's a shame... If you look carefully, you can see how everything used to be so organized and it just got out of hand and he just ran out of space and stopped caring. 29:10 looks a welding transformer. Probably worth a fortune in the copper scrap price alone. The empty spot on those motherboards was for coprocessors. They'll work fine without.
Wow, that motherboard is brand new! I think I have one just like it, but it doesn't work sad to say (Haven't worked out what went wrong on it). I Have a few junk old computers I keep running and touring to show kids (and others) what we were using back in the day. Would love to build up a few more 486's like that. Totally a legit processor, no heatsink needed on those suckers
I want those tubes that were in that lamp cover, if they were all the same, the one that was labeled 6CA7/EL34! Those tubes are audio output tubes used in audio and guitar amplifiers.
I've had to resist going to places like this now or before you know it your house is going to look the same! It wasn't all that long ago that selenium rectifiers were still being used in hostile environments because of their tolerance and self healing properties in overload and over voltage conditions, they were quite common in railway applications and large industrial palnts here in Australia even in the early 1980's. Cylinder lawn mowers (reel type mowers) were de rigueur in the 1950's -1960's if you wanted a bowling green standard lawn. Thanks shango066 for posting I feel as if I've been through the garage personally.
Was this a german guy? Not only because he obviously was into Mercedes cars but I spotted a german "Quelle" catalogue from Summer 1970 at 10:55. Don't know how this made its way over there. There are collectors who even collect these old mail order catalogues, the older the more expensive they are. :)
@@CoreyDeWalt I noticed.. shame as it's probably worth a couple hundred bucks to someone out there. Really, in the decade this place was sitting, they could've paid some care to it all and not assumed all of it was junk and made a few grand off these things, and put then in the hands of those that'll appreciate it.
I had a similar experience, but it was with a complete TV station......I filled 2, 22 foot box vans to the roof with all the test gear and production gear and a car with stuff before I ran out of room, and the whole thing became overwhelming and I had to drive away, still leaving at least 10 times more stuff behind......sadly whatever I could not move that day was to be scrapped the next day.....was just amazing what they threw out, but I lived about 200 miles away and just could not get back......it gets to a point where its all just to much and you have to walk away
Shango, most of your Videos make me happy, but this really made me sad, thinking of most that good old stuff getting trashed. At least a few parts are lucky enough being saved by you. Looking forward to see nice resurrection videos of them. By the way, what about the 2nd Explorer you were working on, does it drive or have you decided to use it as a Parts Car?
Those grease guns and plews cans are worth grabbing, and the aircraft instruments in the bench drawer are pretty valuable. The first drawer opened looked like a bunch of solid old tinknocker /sheetmetal tools. And that rifle stock looked like a "sporsterized" '03 stock.
Yup, though the 486DX has a math co-pro built in. For a brief time, they made a 486SX that didn't have it. (I suspected that they were just DX chips with defective FPUs.)
Hopefully more like 50 years worth ;) and hopefully if the worst happens someone like Shango with an appreciation for the humanity behind the seeming chaos will be given the opportunity to document and rescue some of it.
There are actually some fairly sound reasons why many of these old homes in this part of CA are demolished. One is termite damage, then there's the cost involved with remodeling and refurbishing. Also the space and design is very inefficient for modern home ownership and raising a family. A shame to see it go on the one hand, but see ya later alligator on the other. Onward and upward. Out with the old, in with the new.
Sad to see someone's life end like this. I think all of us wonder if we'll ever have this happen to all our stuff when we pass on. It's nice to know that at least it's documented on here so not completely lost to time.
It's a guarantee that this will happen to everyone's stuff. I've seen it happen all the time when people pass away. One person's treasure becomes another person's headache.
I'm shocked at the comments only because it demonstrates a clear divide in our society. I fully expected a bunch of "this place should be condemned" "that guy should have been imprisoned" "the feds should clean out places like this" "someone should call the health department" I guess I need to spend more time in this channel for my own sanity.
So cool! Twice, I saw an outdoor TV Antenna up above, looked like NOS, in the box! I would've taken it away!😉😁 Glad you got the Webcor hi-fi, great score along with lots of other goodies!
You are the freaking best.. !! Love you reactions. Wish we had the Yardsale concept in europe... we dont. here people call a "death home" broker that just hauls everything, takes what they want, and trash the rest... i know coz i used to live by one, and his trash cans was gold.. he only went for furniture, so lots of electronics.... but man, i hope yardsales will catch on in scandinavia.
You mean Denmark... Europe goes all the way east to the Urals in Russia and Kazakhstan and who knows what crazy habbits are normal there! Alle the good stuff from dead peoples home in Denmark end up with their relatives and thrift shops and the rest of the combustibles (old news papers, antique furniture, books etc.) go straight for the waste incinerator/heating plant where it is converted to hot water for the district heating - kinda like old people are disposed of these days, where no one wants to get burried :).
Probably the most amazing estate sale I went to (Burbank) was the former home of a successful prospector who spent his life mining, dating back to the 1930's. These were productive commercial mines, of all manner of mineral, plus silver and gold. He kept everything, decades of tools, gear, electronics, paperwork, maps, you name it. Evryone there was just amazed to be in the presence of all that history. I nabbed a bunch of expense ledgers and prospecting reports.
definitely a good idea grabbing those 486 motherboards... they can go for around £50 each on ebay and will make someone happy. the one with the extra socket is probably for a maths co-processor, but as the 486dx had one built in unlike the 486sx, so it's not populated. some nice finds in there!
This man was on the hoarder end of the spectrum but with today's "throwaway" or "disposable" lifestyle it wont be long before people will be called hoarder for just having tools and diagnostic equipment. I have already bought a lot of tools off of people that had family pass and they had no idea what to do with them. I would hate to be thought of as mentally ill for having an addiction to quality tools, hopefully I will be long dead by that time.
That kind of 'physical word genius' always, always includes a little insanity and madness. I think you and I understand this, don't we Mr. Shango? This kind of mind is why we live in the world that we do. He and his kind engineered it. At first I was a bit sad for this man, leaving his whole world behind for sale, give-away or disposal. I'm not sad now: this man lived in his element.. surrounded by all of his treasures and marvels. This man won the game of life
There's several grand worth of tools in there alone. Welding regulators, compressed air filters, regulators, antique lamps, vintage electronics equipment, aircraft manometers... It's a waste to throw all that away.
Gas welding equipment isn't worth much anymore, pretty much just above scrap metal value. Electric arc welding of various types has taken over, MIG, TIG, etc. I've seen gas torches, gauges, and valves at lots of garage sales and auto swap meets, often with tanks, people just don't want them.
Wow! there's a 1970's era photo of our Martin Mars flying boat water bomber plane based on Sproat Lake BC Canada. 24:49 The blue photo on the right. I live close to where these aircraft are based unfortunately they are no longer active.
I don't lament the loss of stuff as much as I lament the loss of people like the deceased, who as Shango said attempts complex with multiple interest and skill. Problem is, there's so much information on so many topics out there, you can't maintain it all in one person's head.
A great friend of mine spent his life making precision optical equipment. From tiny lenses to four foot telescope mirrors. Some of his tools had been handed down for generations and were of major historical value. He never cleaned his optical shop saying it was better to leave the stuff where it was rather than risk disturbing all the dust and grime which might get on the lens he was making. One day he said to me "See that lump of glass on the floor? When I'm gone I wonder who will know it's worth £10,000." Ironically, his life's passion killed him. All the grinding dust and glass particles destroyed his lungs. Fortunately, his son in law who worked with him took over the business and it largely survived in a slightly different form. I miss that guy, he taught me so much. I have one of his prototype lenses to help remember him by. I'm 68 so realistically I haven't got a lot of time left so I'm going through my lifetime's worth of stuff and getting rid of the junk to make it easier to sort things out after I'm gone.
29:07 That is a DC rectifier for powering a xenon 35mm projector lamp house. If the input is rated for single phase that could be valuable to a film collector setting up a film theater projector at home. Most of them found in movie theaters were 3 phase so difficult to use in a residence.
What a beautiful old house..... a shame an ugly new house “McMansion” will take its place....( happens around here the land is more Valuable than the house....)
You should have seen the destruction of the 1920s art deco style house of my friend after he died (UK not USA, but our countries are close). Now 6 modern and shitty houses stand on the plot.
My dad treated our house with it for termites when they bought it just before I was born. We never had any trouble with them in the 27 years they lived there. My dad was digging outside years later and he could still smell it. It was good stuff and very effective. However misuse was very harmful.
It's just stuff!?! My junk will also be my short lived legacy. Thanks for posting this because this guy's legacy just got bootstrapped and gave many of us pleasure.
@@bob4analog These lights remind me of the original incandescent tube fixtures which were throughout the art deco Queen Mary ship when it arrived in Long Beach. Most of those lights were sold off at auctions in the late 1960s when they converted the lighting to 120 V fluorescent fixtures, when the ship was converted for hotel use.
I really like the ingersoll Rand compressor. They have to be one of the best compressors made in the USA. The double coaxial cable was from the BUD day of satellite TV. The Comet saw is a real prize. Make sure you get it working for us to see on RUclips. If you would of taken all the stuff in the gaurge, you could of made a fortune at the flea market for sure. The sad part is you did not get the good stuff. Someone before you did. Places like this alway get someone else who goes and picks the high end stuff. No matter what the owner says. Nice job !!!!!!!
I would have grabbed that box of GE fluorescent lamps. That fixture with the cord and fluorescent lamp-like bulb is a lumiline lamp. It's an incandescent lamp with the filament from one end to the other. These gave way to fluorescent lamps in the late 1930s. A collector of vintage lights would love it!
Wow, that lawn mower with the pull-start Briggs & Stratton engine takes me back. 10 years old, about to mow the lawn, if you got the engine going with just 2 or 3 yanks on that cord, man, you felt so grown up, lol.
There's a point where there's no way you're going to make use of 90% of this stuff, yet it hangs around because it's hard to part with. I threw away a bunch of TV chassis boards. didn't want to but I knew the odds of me needing anything off of them were next to zero.
I would have been a kid in a candy store....... I go to a lot of estate auctions. There's thousands of dollars in auction money they could have made and had it all cleaned out for free.
This looked like my grandfather's garage and workshop. Same spent bulbs and broken plumbing fixtures, countless cancer in a can, and even the same worn wooden drawers in the workbench!
the 486 empty socket is the math coprocessor. 486DX had it on the die already so thats why its not there. Quote They sold a 80487 SX coprocessor to "add" the coprocessor to an SX system, but it was actually a "rebadged" (?) 486DX that "disabled" the existing 486 SX and enabled itself. Intel created the 486 SX to compete with AMD (even back then!) and their AMD-386-40 (Intel's 386 topped at 33 MHz). Some were buying the AMD-386-40 for less than the Intel-386-33 and 486's were $1,000 more (circa 1991)! Since the coprocessor on a 486 took up the majority of the space of the entire die, and if an individual 486 die had a problem, it would most likely (based on percentages) be a flaw in the coprocessor section. Well, all Intel had to do is disable the coprocessor on the 486, sell it as an SX and make lots of $$, while offering an "alternative" to those shoppers out there who were hoping for a 486 but couldn't pony up the $$ for a DX. Quite the marketing department at Intel, eh?
A mans man there. He had a nut and a bolt and a tool for anything that might need to be done. I would love to get ahold of some Chlordane, that was some great stuff. You used it once and woudnt have to worry about it for 10 years. Also I wouldn't throw away old tools. They are worth something.
Amazing!! This is like mine and my fathers house ....his is full of old tubes and germanium transistors he used to make for GEC and mine is full of digital ICs and test equipment ......nobody I know would have a clue what any of it is for .
Man did you keep the real zep freeze spray its magic for Gretta, those black gauges that where in that drawer are ww2 airplanes gauges worth 1,000 each easy the chemicals like real lacquer paints are the best paints ever and the new stuff sucks compared and that hardware store would have come with me for shure ,great video!
I'd be there for days, grabbing all the tools nobody knows how to use, like drill bits, reamers, etc. Unfortunately, people doesn't realize the value of hardware, bolts screws, etc. Grab all that's I can, when it's cheap. I have a wall of just that, comes in handy.
I watched 4 minutes but no more. I am one of the 'old men' with similar stuff, but organised a bit better. I enjoy designing, making, mending, repairing, etc, all sorts of stuff. It's not hoarding; anyone that thinks it is, does not have a brain capable of understanding the working of the engineer's brain, many levels above their own. A few years ago I saw the result of 'stupids' clearing grandpa's old 'junk'. Part-built miniature locomotives were thrown in the dumpster because it was 'old train shit'. When the engineering community heard, they raced round to the house and with the family's consent emptied the dumpster of the models. They went for £110,000 at auction. The family claimed it was theirs, the judge said no, they had discarded the 'stuff' and threw it away. As an old engineer, I see less respect for skill, talent and ability; only instant desire for money without effort. Hopefully I will have sold all my stuff before I go, and spent the money on beer!
I agree with less respect for skill, talent and ability. When the neighborhood millenial kids see me working on woodworking, electronics, car etc they think I am off my rocker. They have absolutely zero interest or curiosity in anything not related to sports, gambling, drinking or social media. Skill and talent today is seen as something to avoid at all costs. I do not speak for all youngens but the majority. I won’t miss much when it’s my time to go...fer sure.
The big blue metal case with gauge and cords in-out I believe is an electric phase converter allowing you to run 3phase electric motor with normal 2 phase input.
I came back to this vidoe after 2 years because it's fun to watch. Anyways the problem with the generations after mine (Gen X) is people lack multiple skillsets along with integrity and self respect. I grew up and learned at leas a dozen different trades before I was out of high school and carried on into college to pursue a career in electronics and communications tech (RF Engineering). NEVER stop learning guys and girls
So much stuff I could use. Glad someone got the Benz parts. Could've used some of those florescent bulbs and ballasts right now. LGR would've probably wanted the old PC parts.
This was a man I could have very easily have called a friend. A man after my own heart, really. Someone who believed in self-sufficiency, took care of his own scene, was not above getting his hands dirty and getting the job done. He saw a use for, and appreciated the value, of every little thing that came to hand. These are the sort of people that keep the world turning. May he rest in peace.
A lovely tribute, and I was thinking along these lines as well.
He liked the salami going by the Playgirl magazine
This isn't the workshop of a man who was all about getting the "job done" or "taking care of his own scene". It's the exact opposite. It's the same remains of someone with a compulsive hoarding disorder. Just piles of junk buried under more junk. Sure there's some "good stuff", but what good is it if it's completely inaccessible, buried under more junk? All of that stuff he got to "keep the world turning" is now being thrown out because of how disorganized it is.
There's ways of collecting items, being self-sufficient and organized. This is not an example of one.
There are very few left these days that have enough of a knowledge of physics (yep the only field that really matters), to understand how to maintain everything around them.
I'm not saying it makes sense to maintain all of it yourself, but it shows understanding.
@Jay Man Sadly our goodwill (and most around the country) are no longer accepting anything like this. The one here only sells clothes now.
Wow, what a gold mine.
Perhaps he was an insanely complicated man.
God rest his soul
So sad when someone croaks and the family tries to erase every trace of their existence as fast as possible.
Nodak81 well, that did not happen here, as he has been gone for 14 years.
@@ShadowsOnTheScreen And? I didn't say it did happen here. Just commenting on what I've observed time and again.
The sad thing is, whether you like it or not, you have to do it. I am through this already.
If we are regularly watching Shango's videos I think we can all see ourselves in this position when we die.
Aside from the large number of chemicals on the shelves in this video, this is my house, garage, basement and workshop.
This man was awesome!! You would need a month to go through this place properly. The best stuff is really stashed away!!
And too bad the rest got hauled to the dump. It would have been nice if they held a freecycle week where they let anyone come and take what they wanted or had a need for and then recycle or trash the rest. Just my 2 cents though.
Brought tears to my eyes. I can see my stuff being thrown away as garbage... Just the old aircraft instruments would make my day.
Not even 8mins in and I'm so depressed to know that all that stuff is just going to be given away and thrown out. That's someone's whole life in there, appreciate it can't all be saved & if you have no family/relatives can't handle dealing with the estate then sadly this kind of thing happens. Just a real shame, I'd be round there in a shot to save some useful kit & glad you've been given the chance to pick over and save some of the stuff. Ode2Pops said it well, a man after my own heart lived there. Just as well another man after my own heart is going to rescue some of the artefacts and useful/interesting stuff i can't.
That garage door remote had a 22½Volts battery in it. Great score of stuff. Pity that when someone passes away, most stuff will get dumped. Excellent video.
I'm getting up there myself. A few old tools both electronic and mechanical. My 1968 150 MHZ HP oscilloscope I still use to this day. DTL logic inside! My relatives have no use for my equipment. Enjoy yours while you can!
Oh I loved those old fans when I was a kid. Stick a finger in and say goodbye to it ... the good ole days! 🤗
lol...Got that right...No plastic blades.
thanks Shango for documenting this.
So even if this goes mostly to the landfill, at least a few people around the world can from now on admire this collection and honor the man who kept this stuff together.
I went into uncontrollable spasms over all that cool stuff
Wow....every time, I hear someone has passed away, I am afraid. I love my junk too. This man, spent his life buying, collecting using, replacing all those items left behind. One day we are here.....the next...we are gone forever. My moms best friend was dying. She said 'You know , we spend our lives collecting "stuff"..."but when we go, EVERYTHING WE OWN, is left behind. We can't take one single thing with us"...and that depressed her to no end. She asked "was it all worth it" ? That scared me.
This garage reminds me of my grandfathers stuff, but on a much larger scale. Never threw out broken stuff either. Collected old screws and nails in glass jars.
I swear I thought he was going to take all this stuff with him to the great beyond! Gonna need a bigger dumpster!😆😄😂 Nice variac find Shango!
That is a nice little radial arm saw. You could build a replacement drawer for that sturdy chest of drawers! Ah, the good old days of home woodworking!
Gee, I thought my garage & house was bad! LOL 😂
Love you shango😘❤️
Man back when I was a young lad with a hard on every ten minutes, I fixed up an old shed behind the house. Ran some wire overhead and hooked it to the outdoor fuse box on our house, I wired in some plugs, and for a light in the bedroom (it was a two roomer, living room and bedroom when I finished) I used a old variable speed electric train transformer hooked up to a headlight, sort of aimed at one corner of the room with some red cloth in front of it to give the room that, well sexy glow. It worked! Got my first, well piece of ass from the girl across the street on that bed with that headlight glowing red, and the Doors crooning "Hello I Love You" on the little home built high fi that I parted together from parts of junked players I found in the city dump. I will never forget that day, I saw that gal about five years ago at her mom's funeral, man did I dodge the bullet with her! Man did she go down hill, looked like a wicked witch from the horror flicks, and she was cute as hell when we had our experience.
Wow, I would have had a field day there. I've seen many of those "help me I'm a hoarder" programs on tv but they never show a hoarder who would hoard the same things as I would, if my wife wouldn't keep me in check. There's a lot of actual valuable stuff in there, not just heaps of newspapers and old clothes that you often see.
It's a shame... If you look carefully, you can see how everything used to be so organized and it just got out of hand and he just ran out of space and stopped caring.
29:10 looks a welding transformer. Probably worth a fortune in the copper scrap price alone.
The empty spot on those motherboards was for coprocessors. They'll work fine without.
Wow, that motherboard is brand new! I think I have one just like it, but it doesn't work sad to say (Haven't worked out what went wrong on it). I Have a few junk old computers I keep running and touring to show kids (and others) what we were using back in the day. Would love to build up a few more 486's like that. Totally a legit processor, no heatsink needed on those suckers
This was full of amazing stuff. Wow!
I want those tubes that were in that lamp cover, if they were all the same, the one that was labeled 6CA7/EL34! Those tubes are audio output tubes used in audio and guitar amplifiers.
Mullard made for Dynaco amplifiers. Nice stuff if in good condition.
at least he grabbed them
Yes the EL34's are worth some $. Will work in a Marshall amp.
@@cali4tune Yep! They will also work in my original issue 1974 Musicman 212-HD OneThirty! That amp runs 4 of them.
@@ExitThirteen Yes quite a few amps use EL34. Like 12AX7 always a demand for them.
I've had to resist going to places like this now or before you know it your house is going to look the same! It wasn't all that long ago that selenium rectifiers were still being used in hostile environments because of their tolerance and self healing properties in overload and over voltage conditions, they were quite common in railway applications and large industrial palnts here in Australia even in the early 1980's. Cylinder lawn mowers (reel type mowers) were de rigueur in the 1950's -1960's if you wanted a bowling green standard lawn. Thanks shango066 for posting I feel as if I've been through the garage personally.
This shows the us that we never truly own anything we just kind of rent it for as long as we live.
Was this a german guy? Not only because he obviously was into Mercedes cars but I spotted a german "Quelle" catalogue from Summer 1970 at 10:55. Don't know how this made its way over there. There are collectors who even collect these old mail order catalogues, the older the more expensive they are. :)
Man, I'm sure that stack of old motherboards would sell for a pretty penny to retro gamers on ebay.. that place is such a gold mine of neat things.
Yeah, pre-pentium PC stuff is slowly increasing in value.
Also those ceramic CPUs have gold recovery value.
That 486 era stuff holds some serious value to the computer collector guys.
I saw a compaq deskmate on a shelf too
@@CoreyDeWalt I noticed.. shame as it's probably worth a couple hundred bucks to someone out there. Really, in the decade this place was sitting, they could've paid some care to it all and not assumed all of it was junk and made a few grand off these things, and put then in the hands of those that'll appreciate it.
2:00 Ambassador Hotel sign, noteworthy since that's where Robert F Kennedy was shot when in Los Angeles back in '68
Would love those old 486 boards
I had a similar experience, but it was with a complete TV station......I filled 2, 22 foot box vans to the roof with all the test gear and production gear and a car with stuff before I ran out of room, and the whole thing became overwhelming and I had to drive away, still leaving at least 10 times more stuff behind......sadly whatever I could not move that day was to be scrapped the next day.....was just amazing what they threw out, but I lived about 200 miles away and just could not get back......it gets to a point where its all just to much and you have to walk away
Shango, most of your Videos make me happy, but this really made me sad, thinking of most that good old stuff getting trashed. At least a few parts are lucky enough being saved by you. Looking forward to see nice resurrection videos of them.
By the way, what about the 2nd Explorer you were working on, does it drive or have you decided to use it as a Parts Car?
This reminds me of my late father's workshop - things stowed in the rafters, all of the jars full of hardware, random carcinogenic chemicals. ❤️
Those grease guns and plews cans are worth grabbing, and the aircraft instruments in the bench drawer are pretty valuable.
The first drawer opened looked like a bunch of solid old tinknocker /sheetmetal tools.
And that rifle stock looked like a "sporsterized" '03 stock.
Not kon FE2 in the office. Great camera
I would definitely save those plane instruments
Nice aircraft gages. That place seems a gold mine of cool stuff
Probably with a nice amount of radium paint to play with.
The empty processor socket on a 486 was for the math co-processor.
Yup, though the 486DX has a math co-pro built in. For a brief time, they made a 486SX that didn't have it. (I suspected that they were just DX chips with defective FPUs.)
"Disco Biscuit to the max!" I am going to work that into a conversation. :-)
This will happen to me one day.
My kids will throw away 30 years of vintage collecting in the skip
Hopefully more like 50 years worth ;) and hopefully if the worst happens someone like Shango with an appreciation for the humanity behind the seeming chaos will be given the opportunity to document and rescue some of it.
@@danmackintosh6325 let's hope so because my kids think it's complete shit now so I'm in dead lumber 😓😓😓
Yeah they don't see the value we see. It's this kind of attitude that ensures that many will fail having not learned what we have learned.
The projects build up and the body breaks down. What the mind wants to do not even the eyes are good enough for any more.
I feel your pain. Time to work on a plan. I remember at one hamfest seeing a "pre-estate" sale.
It's a real shame they're knocking that house down, it actually doesn't look bad
There are actually some fairly sound reasons why many of these old homes in this part of CA are demolished. One is termite damage, then there's the cost involved with remodeling and refurbishing. Also the space and design is very inefficient for modern home ownership and raising a family. A shame to see it go on the one hand, but see ya later alligator on the other. Onward and upward. Out with the old, in with the new.
in some cases you're right but SOMETIMES the old is better then "the new".........
After 14 years it might be too far gone in places. They must've tried to shift it and failed.
Sad to see someone's life end like this. I think all of us wonder if we'll ever have this happen to all our stuff when we pass on.
It's nice to know that at least it's documented on here so not completely lost to time.
It's a guarantee that this will happen to everyone's stuff. I've seen it happen all the time when people pass away. One person's treasure becomes another person's headache.
I'm shocked at the comments only because it demonstrates a clear divide in our society. I fully expected a bunch of "this place should be condemned" "that guy should have been imprisoned" "the feds should clean out places like this" "someone should call the health department"
I guess I need to spend more time in this channel for my own sanity.
So cool! Twice, I saw an outdoor TV Antenna up above, looked like NOS, in the box! I would've taken it away!😉😁 Glad you got the Webcor hi-fi, great score along with lots of other goodies!
You are the freaking best.. !! Love you reactions. Wish we had the Yardsale concept in europe... we dont. here people call a "death home" broker that just hauls everything, takes what they want, and trash the rest... i know coz i used to live by one, and his trash cans was gold.. he only went for furniture, so lots of electronics.... but man, i hope yardsales will catch on in scandinavia.
You mean Denmark... Europe goes all the way east to the Urals in Russia and Kazakhstan and who knows what crazy habbits are normal there!
Alle the good stuff from dead peoples home in Denmark end up with their relatives and thrift shops and the rest of the combustibles (old news papers, antique furniture, books etc.) go straight for the waste incinerator/heating plant where it is converted to hot water for the district heating - kinda like old people are disposed of these days, where no one wants to get burried :).
“Death home”? Scandinavians get to the point! We call them “estate sales” in the States.
A whole man's life reduced to estate sale. Sad. My father passed away in Oct 2019 and I see this makes want to cry.
There is probably $200 just in retro metal oil and lube cans along...
Probably the most amazing estate sale I went to (Burbank) was the former home of a successful prospector who spent his life mining, dating back to the 1930's. These were productive commercial mines, of all manner of mineral, plus silver and gold. He kept everything, decades of tools, gear, electronics, paperwork, maps, you name it. Evryone there was just amazed to be in the presence of all that history. I nabbed a bunch of expense ledgers and prospecting reports.
31:14 - Thats the socket for an optional math co-processor
On the 486 board the extra slot was for a Math Co-Processor. 486 chips and old PC stuff is high in gold content.
definitely a good idea grabbing those 486 motherboards... they can go for around £50 each on ebay and will make someone happy. the one with the extra socket is probably for a maths co-processor, but as the 486dx had one built in unlike the 486sx, so it's not populated. some nice finds in there!
This man was on the hoarder end of the spectrum but with today's "throwaway" or "disposable" lifestyle it wont
be long before people will be called hoarder for just having tools and diagnostic equipment.
I have already bought a lot of tools off of people that had family pass and they had no idea what to do with them.
I would hate to be thought of as mentally ill for having an addiction to quality tools, hopefully I will be long dead by that time.
I try not to hoard, if it can't be fixed or used for parts I don't pick it up. Most people just see it as junk.
this is caused by our strange consumer disposable lifestyle... we use more resources than perhaps we should
You entered the cave of a renaissance man.
That kind of 'physical word genius' always, always includes a little insanity and madness. I think you and I understand this, don't we Mr. Shango? This kind of mind is why we live in the world that we do. He and his kind engineered it. At first I was a bit sad for this man, leaving his whole world behind for sale, give-away or disposal. I'm not sad now: this man lived in his element.. surrounded by all of his treasures and marvels. This man won the game of life
There's several grand worth of tools in there alone. Welding regulators, compressed air filters, regulators, antique lamps, vintage electronics equipment, aircraft manometers... It's a waste to throw all that away.
Gas welding equipment isn't worth much anymore, pretty much just above scrap metal value. Electric arc welding of various types has taken over, MIG, TIG, etc. I've seen gas torches, gauges, and valves at lots of garage sales and auto swap meets, often with tanks, people just don't want them.
Wow! there's a 1970's era photo of our Martin Mars flying boat water bomber plane based on Sproat Lake BC Canada. 24:49 The blue photo on the right. I live close to where these aircraft are based unfortunately they are no longer active.
I don't lament the loss of stuff as much as I lament the loss of people like the deceased, who as Shango said attempts complex with multiple interest and skill. Problem is, there's so much information on so many topics out there, you can't maintain it all in one person's head.
Nice seeing vintage stuff a steep back in time I like old school
Interesting video showing the history of what this man had. Always like walking through a time capsule.
Wow, great video and nice score. Take care.
A great friend of mine spent his life making precision optical equipment. From tiny lenses to four foot telescope mirrors. Some of his tools had been handed down for generations and were of major historical value. He never cleaned his optical shop saying it was better to leave the stuff where it was rather than risk disturbing all the dust and grime which might get on the lens he was making. One day he said to me "See that lump of glass on the floor? When I'm gone I wonder who will know it's worth £10,000."
Ironically, his life's passion killed him. All the grinding dust and glass particles destroyed his lungs. Fortunately, his son in law who worked with him took over the business and it largely survived in a slightly different form. I miss that guy, he taught me so much. I have one of his prototype lenses to help remember him by.
I'm 68 so realistically I haven't got a lot of time left so I'm going through my lifetime's worth of stuff and getting rid of the junk to make it easier to sort things out after I'm gone.
29:07 That is a DC rectifier for powering a xenon 35mm projector lamp house. If the input is rated for single phase that could be valuable to a film collector setting up a film theater projector at home. Most of them found in movie theaters were 3 phase so difficult to use in a residence.
What a beautiful old house..... a shame an ugly new house “McMansion” will take its place....( happens around here the land is more Valuable than the house....)
You should have seen the destruction of the 1920s art deco style house of my friend after he died (UK not USA, but our countries are close).
Now 6 modern and shitty houses stand on the plot.
IncandescentWithRage around here (I live in Canada btw) it’s postwar bungalows....... still sucks....
If only I was on the West Coast. I would have loved those old computer motherboards. What a collection!
I'm overwhelmed and I'm not even there.... There's alot of good stuff there..
Tube amp guys will cream their jeans for those EL34 tubes.
yep, they look Mullard made...
@@Runco990 says 'made by mullard' on them' ...
Yeah, I would have been depressed if he’d left them.
Holy Crap! It looks like I died and you found all my stuff! I'm not kidding, that looks like my garage- airplane parts and all!
Please rescue any and all old computer parts. They can be sold for a small fortune, or at least be picked up by people who are into it.
Those old computer parts are worth selling. There's a growing demand for older computer parts like that!9
That chlordane dust is a valuable old school insecticide that actually works and is very persistent.
.. it works, so long as you don't mind a few long term health effects.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlordane
That and the lead based potato chips... yummy.
My dad treated our house with it for termites when they bought it just before I was born. We never had any trouble with them in the 27 years they lived there. My dad was digging outside years later and he could still smell it. It was good stuff and very effective. However misuse was very harmful.
It’s insanely good, but it isn’t good for you. However I almost think it’s worth it
My Pops used Chlordane all the time, he is still alive today at 94 years of age.
It's just stuff!?! My junk will also be my short lived legacy. Thanks for posting this because this guy's legacy just got bootstrapped and gave many of us pleasure.
That oddball tube light is a 'Lumiline' linear incandescent light.
13:58 time reference. Lumiline lamp. You'd find them in bathrooms because the light quality (for applying makeup, etc.) was better than fluorescents.
I still have one!
@@bob4analog Can you still get the replacement bulb for it ?
Yes, but they're expensive! And it appears that there's only surplus stock when there available. I only have 1 bulb.
@@bob4analog These lights remind me of the original incandescent tube fixtures which were throughout the art deco Queen Mary ship when it arrived in Long Beach. Most of those lights were sold off at auctions in the late 1960s when they converted the lighting to 120 V fluorescent fixtures, when the ship was converted for hotel use.
One of your most enjoyable videos. May be the best…
I really like the ingersoll Rand compressor. They have to be one of the best compressors made in the USA. The double coaxial cable was from the BUD day of satellite TV. The Comet saw is a real prize. Make sure you get it working for us to see on RUclips. If you would of taken all the stuff in the gaurge, you could of made a fortune at the flea market for sure. The sad part is you did not get the good stuff. Someone before you did. Places like this alway get someone else who goes and picks the high end stuff. No matter what the owner says. Nice job !!!!!!!
You grab that vice?
I would have grabbed that box of GE fluorescent lamps. That fixture with the cord and fluorescent lamp-like bulb is a lumiline lamp. It's an incandescent lamp with the filament from one end to the other. These gave way to fluorescent lamps in the late 1930s. A collector of vintage lights would love it!
All the guitar amp guys salivating over those EL34's.
Wow, that lawn mower with the pull-start Briggs & Stratton engine takes me back. 10 years old, about to mow the lawn, if you got the engine going with just 2 or 3 yanks on that cord, man, you felt so grown up, lol.
The Briggs and Stratton I had was a pig to start, I used an hot air paint stripper to warm it up before trying, then it would start easily.
There's a point where there's no way you're going to make use of 90% of this stuff, yet it hangs around because it's hard to part with. I threw away a bunch of TV chassis boards. didn't want to but I knew the odds of me needing anything off of them were next to zero.
I wished i could live in such old and nice home
I would have been a kid in a candy store....... I go to a lot of estate auctions. There's thousands of dollars in auction money they could have made and had it all cleaned out for free.
Same
This looked like my grandfather's garage and workshop. Same spent bulbs and broken plumbing fixtures, countless cancer in a can, and even the same worn wooden drawers in the workbench!
the 486 empty socket is the math coprocessor.
486DX had it on the die already so thats why its not there.
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They sold a 80487 SX coprocessor to "add" the coprocessor to an SX
system, but it was actually a "rebadged" (?) 486DX that "disabled" the
existing 486 SX and enabled itself. Intel created the 486 SX to compete
with AMD (even back then!) and their AMD-386-40 (Intel's 386 topped at
33 MHz). Some were buying the AMD-386-40 for less than the Intel-386-33
and 486's were $1,000 more (circa 1991)! Since the coprocessor on a
486 took up the majority of the space of the entire die, and if an
individual 486 die had a problem, it would most likely (based on
percentages) be a flaw in the coprocessor section. Well, all Intel had
to do is disable the coprocessor on the 486, sell it as an SX and make
lots of $$, while offering an "alternative" to those shoppers out there
who were hoping for a 486 but couldn't pony up the $$ for a DX. Quite
the marketing department at Intel, eh?
You should have taken the Chlordane powder. If you reconstitute with water and inject it into your circulatory system, you can use the Force.
A mans man there. He had a nut and a bolt and a tool for anything that might need to be done. I would love to get ahold of some Chlordane, that was some great stuff. You used it once and woudnt have to worry about it for 10 years. Also I wouldn't throw away old tools. They are worth something.
Watts with the ads interrupting the video?
I've never seen that before on your channel.
Pretty amazing what we can collect in a life time.
Amazing!! This is like mine and my fathers house ....his is full of old tubes and germanium transistors he used to make for GEC and mine is full of digital ICs and test equipment ......nobody I know would have a clue what any of it is for .
Man, I would need a deuce and a half just to begin hauling all the stuff I want from that shed!
I own a five-ton...
That’s a beautiful cutting board! Man that was a nice haul. Too bad all that had to go to trash.
Man did you keep the real zep freeze spray its magic for Gretta, those black gauges that where in that drawer are ww2 airplanes gauges worth 1,000 each easy the chemicals like real lacquer paints are the best paints ever and the new stuff sucks compared and that hardware store would have come with me for shure ,great video!
*How dare you*
If I was younger, I would had a field day with that place. Very cool
I'd be there for days, grabbing all the tools nobody knows how to use, like drill bits, reamers, etc. Unfortunately, people doesn't realize the value of hardware, bolts screws, etc. Grab all that's I can, when it's cheap. I have a wall of just that, comes in handy.
Like the vintage stuff you found. Cool stuff for sure q
I watched 4 minutes but no more. I am one of the 'old men' with similar stuff, but organised a bit better. I enjoy designing, making, mending, repairing, etc, all sorts of stuff. It's not hoarding; anyone that thinks it is, does not have a brain capable of understanding the working of the engineer's brain, many levels above their own. A few years ago I saw the result of 'stupids' clearing grandpa's old 'junk'. Part-built miniature locomotives were thrown in the dumpster because it was 'old train shit'. When the engineering community heard, they raced round to the house and with the family's consent emptied the dumpster of the models.
They went for £110,000 at auction. The family claimed it was theirs, the judge said no, they had discarded the 'stuff' and threw it away. As an old engineer, I see less respect for skill, talent and ability; only instant desire for money without effort. Hopefully I will have sold all my stuff before I go, and spent the money on beer!
I agree with less respect for skill, talent and ability. When the neighborhood millenial kids see me working on woodworking, electronics, car etc they think I am off my rocker. They have absolutely zero interest or curiosity in anything not related to sports, gambling, drinking or social media. Skill and talent today is seen as something to avoid at all costs. I do not speak for all youngens but the majority. I won’t miss much when it’s my time to go...fer sure.
i would be in heaven if i was in a place like this getting stuff
id be like a kid in a toy store lol
The big blue metal case with gauge and cords in-out I believe is an electric phase converter allowing you to run 3phase electric motor with normal 2 phase input.
I came back to this vidoe after 2 years because it's fun to watch.
Anyways the problem with the generations after mine (Gen X) is people lack multiple skillsets along with integrity and self respect. I grew up and learned at leas a dozen different trades before I was out of high school and carried on into college to pursue a career in electronics and communications tech (RF Engineering).
NEVER stop learning guys and girls
I love estate sales especially if I come across old TVs never know what you're going to find it's a good mental relaxer for me😜
Wow, look how smooth those wooden drawers work filled with heavy stuff!
So much stuff I could use. Glad someone got the Benz parts. Could've used some of those florescent bulbs and ballasts right now. LGR would've probably wanted the old PC parts.
that sony will score on ebay.
Those AT 486 boards usually sell for $30 to $50 not counting shipping but there are ones that are in demand for which they can sell for a lot more.
6CA7's were the output tubes in Dynaco Stereo 70 amplifiers
26:30 lol! 2.5 gb hdd. I got a bunch of those from my school. Used to use them as doorstops and paperweights. And that was 10 years ago.
what an intresting look into the past, i remember the 486 board use to have the spare socket for a math co-processor.
good finds all round.