Hey, nice video! really important thing missing on the turntable is the counterweight (i hope i write it well because i'm french) if this is missing and you put the head with stylus on the vinyl, it's gonna crash on the vinyl and destroy it and kill the stylus to... also, the tonearm is bent on the first turntable but that can be replaced but it need you to do really little soldering for the head attachment and Stanton is a really good brand. you can also sell it as is and get some money from it. i not know the newer generations like that one and have no idea of the price but they was not cheap it's not a low price shit brand so, have fun!
I have a serious question to ask you. Didn't know where else to ask, so here it is... I have an Orange 20RT amp, that has an 8 or 10 inch speaker in it. Would I be able to change out the speaker and put a 12 inch, or even do a 2 x12 set up. The amp is 20 watts...I personally don't see why I couldn't....just wanted to ask you to see if it was worth my time to do.
@@EasyHeat Well that is because with socialism and communism there is nothing available to waste it causes the opposite problem with people starving to death with no heat or electricity and crapping in a hole in the ground of their third world no capitalist country.
I used to do this a few years back always under the cover of darkness. Being a pizza driver at the time you could always be in 'stealth' mode because with your signage on your vehicle nobody thought twice about you being in the back of shopping centers. So many great finds from hobby stores to Radio Shack...had lots of great yard sales :)
I was hoping there was going to be a guitar in that case lol😂. That’d be awesome! The best thing I plucked from a dumpster was a perfectly working 46’ Philips 1080p flatscreen tv from around 2010. I found it during the summer of 2018 and it still works to this day.
I've got a sharp 1080p tv I use daily, was sitting by a dumpster. one of the caps blew in the power section. had one laying around, works like a charm.
my nearby GC has a camera on their locked dumpster. Makes no sense, they would be able to throw more trash in there if a few scavengers took some of the good stuff out of it.
Waste culture is the byproduct of extreme consumerism. Every time Apple makes a new product people feel compelled to go buy the newest version and ditch their older one. Apple is just one tiny example.
better question: What's wrong with the US? seriously :D dumpster diving and finding usefull stuff-videos are pretty much always from americans! your decisions are weird sometimes :D
Good stuff Brad the Dumpstologist! Nothing wrong with dumpster diving when you can find that level of usable stuff thrown out by indifference, incompetency and laziness. Thanks brother!
These dumpster dive vids have always been my favourites on your channel. Over two years, I fished 8 PAIRS of working good quality speakers out of our rural dump. Denon, Celstion, Tannoy, etc. A friend makes a decent living in Montreal, diving for trinkets in residential trash.
Being the father of a grown daughter I always smile when your little girls appear. Treasure those moments when they are interested in what you are doing. Make time for them, even if it's only a few minutes. Talk to them, ask them questions, enjoy the way their little minds work. The day will come too soon when you are an old fuddy duddy and your dad jokes go unappreciated ...Dad PLEASE!
@@TheGuitologist I never doubted that. ☺ I'm talking for purely selfish reasons here...you will remember certain moments far into the future that will make you smile every time. The bigger the catalog, the better😉
You know how you put cheese in a trap for mice? One day the lid will close and trap you in :) or "Hey boss, what should we do with this gear?" "Put it in the Brad the Guitologist bin"
RE: The turntables. The stylus is the "needle" that goes in a cartage. The cartridges are what are missing from the tone arms. They are available, as are the turntable pads.
I'd call them head shells. The Head Shells goes on the end of the tone arm and the cartridge mounts in the head shell. I think they're pretty standard across brands, so not that expensive. I'd sell them without the cartridge. Let the new owner pick what they want. (Unless I could get them cheap.)
I have bought a couple busted amplifiers from Guitar Center that I refused to return because I knew that would be the end of them, and they were rare old Voxes. One is just a de-oxit job and I suspect that the other is poor soldering. I guess if you pay an extra thousand bucks or so they do the quality control right there at the factory, but I can sort of fake it here on my budget.
I have a friend that works for GC. The profit margins on the livewire and proline stuff is massive. He recently purchased $70 worth of cables for $3 with his employee discount, and that's still above cost..
first stanton is missing the counterweight! and it seems like something is terribly wrong with the tonearm. Stylus and slipmat are definitely not the problem. But the second one looks ok. you can directly digitize vinyl to your PC and they have enough torque for srcatching, so nice find - even if the first one ends up as parts donor and they got 78rpm so you can play and digitize shellac records.
i worked at guitar center for years, people would come in and rip the parts off the floor models to fix the ones they have at home. pretty much guarantee that's what happened there. Stanton probably updated the model so they could finally write the old one off
I once got an oxy/acetylene torch kit from Lowes for dirt cheap because someone stole the cutting tips out of two of the blister packs. The tip missing was just a few bucks from a welding supply house.
I found a lovely big stack of stuff in a music shop bin, including 9 new guitars, computer screens, various stands, cables, strings, surplus new carpet which I put in my lounge, timber and guitar boxes. They smash up everything now though.
We lived in Japan in 1990 and it was a dumpster diving paradise. A friend wrote an article about the almost new stuff left on sidewalks because houses are so small. People bought new tvs every couple of years and put out working ones. Many Gaijin stocked apartments with free furniture tvs and stereos.
Brad be careful with those stands. A few years ago I bought a wall hanger from them and it started to damage the nitro on my Martin. Later I went in to the store and found that all their guitars on the top row (the expensive stuff likely finished in Nitro) had handkerchiefs hanging from the hanger to protect the instrument.
I got my Kurzweil PC88 from a Church storage that they wanted to clear, they were throwing everything, and the keyboard came with chair, stand, power supply, and even a Kurzweil pedal
Brad, I'm so thankful you've persevered and continued to make us quality content. You deserve it, and so do we. I was really curious as to how you were going to handle the whole YT thing, but you stayed in there and stayed true. Really love the shit outta you man! I've taken some of the inspiration you provided and threw my hat over the wall with my first legitimate cover song. Even with everything else going on, you help aid the maintenance of a healthy mindset to all of us cabin fever babies out here in the world right now. God bless you brother!🚬😎🤘
I'm lucky, my Sam Ash and Guitar Center dumpsters are next to each other I can check them both everytime I'm over that way. There is usually something good in there.
Thanks for recording the things you do. I can live vicariously through you. I have tried checking out my local Guitar Center's dumpster on two separate occasions, but all I have ever found is a bunch of cheapo cables that come with Chinese guitars and cheap gig bags to which they've taken box-cutters. You're videos though make me want to try again.
I worked in a music store in the 1970's. Someone came in with a 59 ES335 and wanted new pickups. I kept the 59 humbuckers and put them in a parts caster Telecaster. Played it for years.
I drive around town all day with my pool service and over the years I've found soo good stuff it's unbelievable.It's the thrill of the find that makes it all worth it.
Remember that amp you came across that amp with the loose screw rolling around and the chiseled our speaker baffle? I am the back story to that! After I moved to KCMO I was playing bass with a friend and guitarist, Smiley. Both of us were dirt poor. He had stage fright yet was phenomenal! Anyway, he found a loose speaker in a dumpster after work. We did janitorial at the the FDA. His father step dad who occasionally fixed amps and set guitars professionally gave him that amp without a speaker. For tools all we had was a chisel! We drank a good deal back then so we couldn’t buy any tools at a dollar store. I can’t remember if there were any dollar stores then. I knew how to fix amps having to fix my own in high school. I was nearly in tears telling him how difficult it was to chisel together an amp for us :( I prayed and then took that chisel to the circle I drew for the new speaker! I was desperate for a gig too and wanted to go electric. It was a small Kustom Combo (I was picturing the Doors looking down on us.) thinking back. I could be wrong but I instantly remembered it all when I saw you showing it. I think it was a Kustom.I had to open that thing up using a chisel and use a pencil in hand amp lit with the dumpster speaker attached ( luckily it worked) to diagnose where it was bad. We didn’t have the solder and a gun, but we had sneaky access to one at work in the shop. We walked that amp a couple miles and early to be able to use it. We hid it behind and inside a huge air plenum in the basement and Smiley would sneeze or cough when somebody came near. The solder was job was sloppy as all hell, But working on it like that was terribly problematic. Life was a little crazy back then when you’re playing a game of chess with Hocksters just to try out different gear for a spell. I lived pay check to paycheck then. After 2 near fatal collisions I am somewhat like that now but altogether more a respecting adult. Lol! I’m a songwriter like you.
I was at GC looking at my favorite Casio, and the employee who was helping me couldn't figure out that the power cables were the wrong polarity. Never saw the keyboard turn on, and I'm starting to think it might've been damaged by the wrong cables.
Best dumpster in the US Lololol. Happy to see a sponsor on here. Doesn’t detract in anyway from the content and it gets you paid! DO MORE OF THEM! SPF perhaps????
A Federal bldg. I once worked in on nightshift had a division of the NWS which did repairs and reconditioning. Of course they had dumpsters just outside the warehouse hallway and more than once found boxloads of vacuum tubes discarded and still in individual boxes. I later bought a good tube tester and most all passed and in excellent condition if not NOS. The NWS pitched due to lack of time allocation for old architecture. Tons of stuff at times. (Most all my inventory was later donated.)
fun fact for anyone watching this who likes makeup: when you return a makeup product they legally have to throw it out because of health reasons (makeup goes on your face and they don't know where it's been) so check dumpsters of makeup stores and there will probably be stuff
I know this is an old video, but I got to say I have checked out my local guitar center dumpster a couple of times and the items in there were never worth grabbing (obvious garbage). I realized that just about every time I am in there and there is a return item like a cable, guitar case, stand, etc, they will often turn to me and say "hey, you want a free ______?" I have gotten a pedalboard worth of good short cables, a stack of long cables (all perfect), a 4u rack case (missing one of the door panels), and a nice roadrunner bass guitar case for free at random times over the years there straight from the employees. I think it is that location's unofficial/unspoken policy to give potentially good items away to customers instead of just chucking them since I have seen it happen to a lot of customers over time, though to also be fair, haven't seen any huge/potentially expensive items or severely broken items like guitars/keyboards/turntables/etc given away, but it seems like all those other smaller items from stands to cables to cases go to random customers -- good policy and probably makes some customer loyalty along the way.
it is refreshing to hear not all locations are enslaved to the corporate corruption cookie cutter ajenda. Good for you and good for the staff at your location for doing the right thing and not believing in a throwaway society. Neat to hear about all the goodies you scored!
I love the twist at the end , sweet bit of play there. great stuff lol I would not have the guts to do it though I would probably have to use all of my bodily functions just to get past my fear lol Great Video!!!
Some budding dj will love you for finding that. Small outlay for the cartridge heads and the counter weight for one of the turntables. Along with that mixing console. Hope you can fix these Brad. I'm still shocked by the mindless waste of it all !!!
I've had some good luck dumpster diving. Been using a Mini Tonemaster for the past year. Gave my drummer a garbage bag full of cables for the studio. Ibanez Tube King TK999HT that I still need to track down the adapter for (likely why it got tossed). Cases. Bunch of allen keys and the giveaway guitar cables.
I have not seen all the video as yet, but I am excited to see the mixer, they were industry standard at one point for clubs, may still be if its a newer model...intriguing.
One thing you can do with guitar stands where the welded part has broken off is make a short gooseneck mic stand out of them. For things like amps, drums, lower instruments, whatever. Just put in a gooseneck instead of the upper part of the stand and you're set. If you can, you could always put in the sliding shaft part of a regular mic stand and get some height out of it. Lots of uses for those things if you think outside the box.
@@down19992000 I haven't done any welding for about 50 years, now. I learned oxy-acetylene in junior high and haven't done it since. I get by with bolting things I can, JB Welding what I can't, and repurposing the rest.
Your Video's are very good and informative, I really enjoy them and I really like the tech videos. Your channel has been able to give your viewers a distraction during these tough times we are having. I thank you very much!!!
You can get slip mats for a few$. Headshell and stylus will set ya back tho. Those DJM mixers usually a channel fader goes out or the CD/Phono select switch.
Marcangelus1 Hi Synths usually take a lot out of repair people time wise as too many parts to deal with especially the earlier models. If anyone can repair synths they can repair anything. Would be great to see this specific model appart.
Brad all the missing parts can be sourced cheaply turntables:- (I have several spare headshells with cartridges and stylus, mats here) shame we don't live closer as post is up in the air at moment
Too bad the largest music store in my area has a locked dumpster or some kind of an enclosed dumpster system and the second largest is across the road from a police station
Brad, the Counter Weight was also missing on the one turntable too. A mat and stylus/headshell isn't a big deal to find a replacement for.. They're universal for the most part, but a Stanton counter weight is going to be a lot more tricky to find cheaply, though I'm sure it's doable. ;) Good luck! Hard to believe they just threw all that shit away.
If the store does renting, I would understand most of the throw away or if they sell a unit full pop and give peanuts for the exchange. Nice one Brad, thanks for sharing.
We used to have a music shop here where i live in Indiana and they would throw out all kinds of stuff.I found a peavey T45 bass that had so.e really bad frets so all ut needed was a fret job and it worked fine.they also had a strap majubg business in the same building so they would throw out tons of leather scraps mostly smaller stuff but occasionally you could fund a nice piece with a couole blems but easy enough to work around.My friend found a Washburn 6 string that had a broken neck but he was able to fix it and I believe he still has that guitar and this was 30 + years ago.
$25 for a headshell, $50 for a cartridge, $20 for a counterweight, $20 for a Stanton felt mat and $30 for a dust cover and you’ve got a turntable that’s $239 brand new. That’s if nothing else is bent or broken, Shipping will be around $30 if you sell it. Best bet, sell them for $50 as-is + shipping.
All this was missing is the Mission Impossible theme. Because of your original video I took a late night peek into my local GC dumpster and scored a vox ac10 that I sold for $120 I advertised it as broken and it sold in about 12 hours after posting.
"I'm your host Brad. And welcome to another episode of 'Clandestine Electronics' :) . This week we do a deep dive and ask, "what's going on i the dumpster?" i love these recovery vids. Checking out all the stuff that'll get reused somewhere is quite exciting. The amount of waste is jaw dropping.
Even if the stands are broken its mostly all rivets and screws, I repaired a boom stand that had a broken screw, the threads were non-standard so I re-tapped it to a screw knob that I had a few of, If I did not do that I would have been paying £70-£100 to replace it.
You are absolutely justified doing it. United States is waste culture central. It's a joy to see someone fixing up used stuff and getting use out of it instead of always buying new shit. My wife thinks I'm some kind of electronic parts hoarder but I just don't throw very much out because there's always a need for spare parts to fix other stuff. Absolutely nothing wrong with buying used stuff or dumpster diving for things you can fix up, especially music items!
Inside info: the regional manager works out of the Louisville store. Never understood throwing away the "bad" cables when you could just walk into any guitar center and tell them they no longer work, no requirement to show you purchased them. They should cut them. The best is when they toss the guitar magazines for the month. Nice haul.
Seems like a pretty good idea, even if everything you pick up is broken, you can repair it and make a good amount of money or just sell it on eBay as for parts. 100% profit too
hahaha. Brad all your openings spoofing production companies are great. I loved the HBO one last time, this one is great too. I need to find some treasure filled dumpsters near me apparently. Great find, great video! Keep em coming. God bless you and your family.
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Hey, nice video!
really important thing missing on the turntable is the counterweight (i hope i write it well because i'm french) if this is missing and you put the head with stylus on the vinyl, it's gonna crash on the vinyl and destroy it and kill the stylus to... also, the tonearm is bent on the first turntable but that can be replaced but it need you to do really little soldering for the head attachment and Stanton is a really good brand. you can also sell it as is and get some money from it. i not know the newer generations like that one and have no idea of the price but they was not cheap it's not a low price shit brand so, have fun!
I have a serious question to ask you. Didn't know where else to ask, so here it is...
I have an Orange 20RT amp, that has an 8 or 10 inch speaker in it. Would I be able to change out the speaker and put a 12 inch, or even do a 2 x12 set up. The amp is 20 watts...I personally don't see why I couldn't....just wanted to ask you to see if it was worth my time to do.
The Guitologist dumpster diving while praising capitalism is an 800 lb gorilla of fail. Nice score tho👍🏻
Brad the Dumpster Ninjologist
@@EasyHeat Well that is because with socialism and communism there is nothing available to waste it causes the opposite problem with people starving to death with no heat or electricity and crapping in a hole in the ground of their third world no capitalist country.
Free gear is best gear!
Haha, good to see you here DOVY, I'm the one person who watches all of your videos😘😅🤘
Not so much that it's free but investigating what the trouble is and searching for a solution is exciting.
Free 99 - the price is right!
Holy shit
Remind Brad of this when he tries to re-sell
My local G C dumpster yielded me over 50 guitar cases and stands!
damn dude. I'ma have to go and check that out.
@@ToneSherpa
You gotta check those dumpsters!
Brad, I was at the same dumpster a half hour before you and found 2 mint 1959 Les Paul
That explains these two Gibson headstocks that I found!
*finds a 58 burst thrown out because it doesn’t have stock tailpiece
The Guitologist: Brad, I’ll bring over some Titebond and clamps and we’ll make one hell of a video.
I had those 1959 Les Paul's there for repair. Oh well.At least I didn't bring my Squire telecaster.
I saw some really nice 1950s Gibson guitars in the dumpster, but they were missing strings, so I left them there!
I used to do this a few years back always under the cover of darkness. Being a pizza driver at the time you could always be in 'stealth' mode because with your signage on your vehicle nobody thought twice about you being in the back of shopping centers. So many great finds from hobby stores to Radio Shack...had lots of great yard sales :)
There's an idea.
I was hoping there was going to be a guitar in that case lol😂. That’d be awesome! The best thing I plucked from a dumpster was a perfectly working 46’ Philips 1080p flatscreen tv from around 2010. I found it during the summer of 2018 and it still works to this day.
I've got a sharp 1080p tv I use daily, was sitting by a dumpster. one of the caps blew in the power section. had one laying around, works like a charm.
my nearby GC has a camera on their locked dumpster. Makes no sense, they would be able to throw more trash in there if a few scavengers took some of the good stuff out of it.
Makes me sick to imagine all this stuff going into landfills when good people could make use if it. What’s wrong with us?
Waste culture is the byproduct of extreme consumerism. Every time Apple makes a new product people feel compelled to go buy the newest version and ditch their older one. Apple is just one tiny example.
better question: What's wrong with the US?
seriously :D dumpster diving and finding usefull stuff-videos are pretty much always from americans! your decisions are weird sometimes :D
Those turntables retail for 274€ a piece here in Germany. The kurzweil keys about 600€ used.
Good stuff Brad the Dumpstologist! Nothing wrong with dumpster diving when you can find that level of usable stuff thrown out by indifference, incompetency and laziness. Thanks brother!
It's Brad the Recycologist!
These dumpster dive vids have always been my favourites on your channel. Over two years, I fished 8 PAIRS of working good quality speakers out of our rural dump. Denon, Celstion, Tannoy, etc. A friend makes a decent living in Montreal, diving for trinkets in residential trash.
Thanks Robert. They’re fun to make. That’s for sure.
Being the father of a grown daughter I always smile when your little girls appear. Treasure those moments when they are interested in what you are doing. Make time for them, even if it's only a few minutes. Talk to them, ask them questions, enjoy the way their little minds work. The day will come too soon when you are an old fuddy duddy and your dad jokes go unappreciated ...Dad PLEASE!
I do remind myself of this daily. These girls know their daddy loves them.
@@TheGuitologist I never doubted that. ☺ I'm talking for purely selfish reasons here...you will remember certain moments far into the future that will make you smile every time. The bigger the catalog, the better😉
You know how you put cheese in a trap for mice? One day the lid will close and trap you in :)
or
"Hey boss, what should we do with this gear?"
"Put it in the Brad the Guitologist bin"
He'll be stuck in a tiny room just fixing cables for GC forever.
RE: The turntables. The stylus is the "needle" that goes in a cartage. The cartridges are what are missing from the tone arms. They are available, as are the turntable pads.
I'd call them head shells. The Head Shells goes on the end of the tone arm and the cartridge mounts in the head shell. I think they're pretty standard across brands, so not that expensive. I'd sell them without the cartridge. Let the new owner pick what they want. (Unless I could get them cheap.)
Didn’t I say cartridge? If not, it was a slip. I know the difference.
I think those sell for around $245 new for their T92 model
Love the dumpster chronicles. It’s always a adrenaline rush to hit a loaded dumpster. Stay safe.
I have bought a couple busted amplifiers from Guitar Center that I refused to return because I knew that would be the end of them, and they were rare old Voxes. One is just a de-oxit job and I suspect that the other is poor soldering. I guess if you pay an extra thousand bucks or so they do the quality control right there at the factory, but I can sort of fake it here on my budget.
I have a friend that works for GC. The profit margins on the livewire and proline stuff is massive. He recently purchased $70 worth of cables for $3 with his employee discount, and that's still above cost..
True.
first stanton is missing the counterweight! and it seems like something is terribly wrong with the tonearm. Stylus and slipmat are definitely not the problem. But the second one looks ok. you can directly digitize vinyl to your PC and they have enough torque for srcatching, so nice find - even if the first one ends up as parts donor
and they got 78rpm so you can play and digitize shellac records.
They are also missing the headshells and cartridges as well so... And the other one's arm coulda looked messed up cuz of no counterweight
i worked at guitar center for years, people would come in and rip the parts off the floor models to fix the ones they have at home. pretty much guarantee that's what happened there. Stanton probably updated the model so they could finally write the old one off
I once got an oxy/acetylene torch kit from Lowes for dirt cheap because someone stole the cutting tips out of two of the blister packs. The tip missing was just a few bucks from a welding supply house.
kurzweil pc1x sold on ebay $499. in Feb. / Franklin Tenn..!! Great haul Brad.. Go back every 3 days and clean out that dumpster
The Blair Dumpster Project.
I found a lovely big stack of stuff in a music shop bin, including 9 new guitars, computer screens, various stands, cables, strings, surplus new carpet which I put in my lounge, timber and guitar boxes. They smash up everything now though.
I think these dumpster find videos are what first got me subscribed back in the day! Glad to see them return!
We lived in Japan in 1990 and it was a dumpster diving paradise. A friend wrote an article about the almost new stuff left on sidewalks because houses are so small. People bought new tvs every couple of years and put out working ones. Many Gaijin stocked apartments with free furniture tvs and stereos.
Brad be careful with those stands. A few years ago I bought a wall hanger from them and it started to damage the nitro on my Martin. Later I went in to the store and found that all their guitars on the top row (the expensive stuff likely finished in Nitro) had handkerchiefs hanging from the hanger to protect the instrument.
100 true
I smell a reality show in your future - Brad the Music Hoarder... PS If done in PJ's that would be a # 1 show!
brad" the night roamer" series. or an off-shoot series called brad the nailer.
@@carlosgaspar8447 Upvoted for Brad the nailer. Very good.
Brad the dumpster diver
Back in the 70’s my friend worked at fender and pulled guitar parts out of the trash bins every day
One man's trash is another man's treasure!
Damnit! I just posted this comment today. You beat me by a day. Now I feel stoopid. I could go & delete mine, but - nah.
And I have been on a few dumpster dives in my lifetime
And the golden statement or quote is.
"someone trash is someone gold.
I got my Kurzweil PC88 from a Church storage that they wanted to clear, they were throwing everything, and the keyboard came with chair, stand, power supply, and even a Kurzweil pedal
My local GC only ever has boxes. The most I ever got was some epiphone stickers. I’m gonna go look now though!
I'm definitely looking forward to an assessment/repair video on that Kurzweil!! If it's just a matter of fixing the key desk, I'll be amazed.😁👍
Brad, I'm so thankful you've persevered and continued to make us quality content. You deserve it, and so do we. I was really curious as to how you were going to handle the whole YT thing, but you stayed in there and stayed true. Really love the shit outta you man!
I've taken some of the inspiration you provided and threw my hat over the wall with my first legitimate cover song. Even with everything else going on, you help aid the maintenance of a healthy mindset to all of us cabin fever babies out here in the world right now. God bless you brother!🚬😎🤘
Nice comment man. Thank you.
I actually work at a landfill. You would swear I was lying if I told you some of the things I find.
Tell us sir!
@@deadspeak1126 come over on my channel and I will do some videos on some of the goodies.
I'm lucky, my Sam Ash and Guitar Center dumpsters are next to each other I can check them both everytime I'm over that way. There is usually something good in there.
Brad states in a comment below that this was months ago. He is keeping safe these days.
Thanks for recording the things you do. I can live vicariously through you. I have tried checking out my local Guitar Center's dumpster on two separate occasions, but all I have ever found is a bunch of cheapo cables that come with Chinese guitars and cheap gig bags to which they've taken box-cutters. You're videos though make me want to try again.
I worked in a music store in the 1970's. Someone came in with a 59 ES335 and wanted new pickups. I kept the 59 humbuckers and put them in a parts caster Telecaster. Played it for years.
These are my favourite vids of yours bro.so exciting to see what you get out of the dumpster!
Thanks Mike! It’s fun doing it.
I drive around town all day with my pool service and over the years I've found soo good stuff it's unbelievable.It's the thrill of the find that makes it all worth it.
Needle in a haystack, no... stylus in a dumpster...
Remember that amp you came across that amp with the loose screw rolling around and the chiseled our speaker baffle?
I am the back story to that! After I moved to KCMO I was playing bass with a friend and guitarist, Smiley. Both of us were dirt poor. He had stage fright yet was phenomenal! Anyway, he found a loose speaker in a dumpster after work. We did janitorial at the the FDA. His father step dad who occasionally fixed amps and set guitars professionally gave him that amp without a speaker. For tools all we had was a chisel! We drank a good deal back then so we couldn’t buy any tools at a dollar store. I can’t remember if there were any dollar stores then. I knew how to fix amps having to fix my own in high school. I was nearly in tears telling him how difficult it was to chisel together an amp for us :( I prayed and then took that chisel to the circle I drew for the new speaker! I was desperate for a gig too and wanted to go electric. It was a small Kustom Combo (I was picturing the Doors looking down on us.) thinking back. I could be wrong but I instantly remembered it all when I saw you showing it. I think it was a Kustom.I had to open that thing up using a chisel and use a pencil in hand amp lit with the dumpster speaker attached ( luckily it worked) to diagnose where it was bad. We didn’t have the solder and a gun, but we had sneaky access to one at work in the shop. We walked that amp a couple miles and early to be able to use it. We hid it behind and inside a huge air plenum in the basement and Smiley would sneeze or cough when somebody came near. The solder was job was sloppy as all hell, But working on it like that was terribly problematic. Life was a little crazy back then when you’re playing a game of chess with Hocksters just to try out different gear for a spell. I lived pay check to paycheck then. After 2 near fatal collisions I am somewhat like that now but altogether more a respecting adult. Lol! I’m a songwriter like you.
Good haul . I use my modded mic stand to hold the camera in overhead shots . Lot's of things can be repaired or repurposed
I was at GC looking at my favorite Casio, and the employee who was helping me couldn't figure out that the power cables were the wrong polarity. Never saw the keyboard turn on, and I'm starting to think it might've been damaged by the wrong cables.
Best dumpster in the US Lololol.
Happy to see a sponsor on here. Doesn’t detract in anyway from the content and it gets you paid! DO MORE OF THEM! SPF perhaps????
the first turntable need counter weight too.
You lucky dog ! That's crazy Brad ! Good for you keeping it out of the dump !
A Federal bldg. I once worked in on nightshift had a division of the NWS which did repairs and reconditioning. Of course they had dumpsters just outside the warehouse hallway and more than once found boxloads of vacuum tubes discarded and still in individual boxes. I later bought a good tube tester and most all passed and in excellent condition if not NOS. The NWS pitched due to lack of time allocation for old architecture. Tons of stuff at times. (Most all my inventory was later donated.)
fun fact for anyone watching this who likes makeup: when you return a makeup product they legally have to throw it out because of health reasons (makeup goes on your face and they don't know where it's been) so check dumpsters of makeup stores and there will probably be stuff
I think it's very kool, that you are trying to save and fix all kind of music stuff that nobody is willing to do what you do.
good job
I know this is an old video, but I got to say I have checked out my local guitar center dumpster a couple of times and the items in there were never worth grabbing (obvious garbage). I realized that just about every time I am in there and there is a return item like a cable, guitar case, stand, etc, they will often turn to me and say "hey, you want a free ______?" I have gotten a pedalboard worth of good short cables, a stack of long cables (all perfect), a 4u rack case (missing one of the door panels), and a nice roadrunner bass guitar case for free at random times over the years there straight from the employees. I think it is that location's unofficial/unspoken policy to give potentially good items away to customers instead of just chucking them since I have seen it happen to a lot of customers over time, though to also be fair, haven't seen any huge/potentially expensive items or severely broken items like guitars/keyboards/turntables/etc given away, but it seems like all those other smaller items from stands to cables to cases go to random customers -- good policy and probably makes some customer loyalty along the way.
it is refreshing to hear not all locations are enslaved to the corporate corruption cookie cutter ajenda.
Good for you and good for the staff at your location for doing the right thing and not believing in a throwaway society.
Neat to hear about all the goodies you scored!
I love the twist at the end , sweet bit of play there. great stuff lol I would not have the guts to do it though I would probably have to use all of my bodily functions just to get past my fear lol Great Video!!!
Some budding dj will love you for finding that. Small outlay for the cartridge heads and the counter weight for one of the turntables. Along with that mixing console. Hope you can fix these Brad. I'm still shocked by the mindless waste of it all !!!
Another great video!!! So cool to include your cute daughter with her bubbles !! So glad you are still doing your channel !!
There are so many turntable accessories on the market. Finding a new platter pad and stylus for that turntable should not be a problem.
it's really Kick-Ass when you go on these covert operations dude!
I've had some good luck dumpster diving. Been using a Mini Tonemaster for the past year. Gave my drummer a garbage bag full of cables for the studio.
Ibanez Tube King TK999HT that I still need to track down the adapter for (likely why it got tossed).
Cases. Bunch of allen keys and the giveaway guitar cables.
Those Stanton T92 turntables are around $300 new, the complete heads with stylus are only about $20. Good score if they are working
one of them was missing its balance weight on the arm
And the tone arm on that one is smashed. Didn’t see it.
@@TheGuitologist hope you get the other one working hate them to be a bust
I have not seen all the video as yet, but I am excited to see the mixer, they were industry standard at one point for clubs, may still be if its a newer model...intriguing.
One thing you can do with guitar stands where the welded part has broken off is make a short gooseneck mic stand out of them. For things like amps, drums, lower instruments, whatever. Just put in a gooseneck instead of the upper part of the stand and you're set. If you can, you could always put in the sliding shaft part of a regular mic stand and get some height out of it. Lots of uses for those things if you think outside the box.
Nice idea. 👍
I have fixed a bunch of guitar stands. It does help that I am a welder and I beef them up with a gusset so they won't break again.
@@down19992000 I haven't done any welding for about 50 years, now. I learned oxy-acetylene in junior high and haven't done it since. I get by with bolting things I can, JB Welding what I can't, and repurposing the rest.
Your Video's are very good and informative, I really enjoy them and I really like the tech videos. Your channel has been able to give your viewers a distraction during these tough times we are having. I thank you very much!!!
You would never catch me climbing in a dumpster one time because I'd be doing this every night. 😎😎😎
Just make sure no friendly animals are in there when you do dive.
@@jwjeffrey Not just animals
If you have felt or go and buy felt it can be used for the backing on the turn table.
I don't always dumpster dive,
but when I do it's at G.C.!!
Stay safe, my friends! 😷
Man this makes me miss dumpster diving... lol. always went to the computer stores though, never thought about guitar center before.
"oh my god"! said Brad's internal hoarder :-)
You can get slip mats for a few$. Headshell and stylus will set ya back tho. Those DJM mixers usually a channel fader goes out or the CD/Phono select switch.
Cant wait for the keyboard repair on those keys or whatever is wrong with it. Someone might have spilled sugary drinks in that corner.
Marcangelus1 Hi Synths usually take a lot out of repair people time wise as too many parts to deal with especially the earlier models. If anyone can repair synths they can repair anything. Would be great to see this specific model appart.
im betting its dumpster juice.
Hans Grueber Yeah could be man
Brad all the missing parts can be sourced cheaply turntables:- (I have several spare headshells with cartridges and stylus, mats here) shame we don't live closer as post is up in the air at moment
Your wife must be a saint! All those cables and the stomp box are worth the price of admission.
Too bad the largest music store in my area has a locked dumpster or some kind of an enclosed dumpster system and the second largest is across the road from a police station
Brad, the Counter Weight was also missing on the one turntable too. A mat and stylus/headshell isn't a big deal to find a replacement for.. They're universal for the most part, but a Stanton counter weight is going to be a lot more tricky to find cheaply, though I'm sure it's doable. ;)
Good luck! Hard to believe they just threw all that shit away.
The two turntables and the mixer goes together. The mixer goes in the middle for those DJ scratches lol
If the store does renting, I would understand most of the throw away or if they sell a unit full pop and give peanuts for the exchange. Nice one Brad, thanks for sharing.
Hahaha I love when you go to the dumpsters. The adrenaline!
can't wait to see your follow-up on the kurzweil. nice video!
That would be funny as hell when Brad be in the garbage and the police shines A huge flood light and shouts "What you doing in there!!!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sneaking out in the dark going full Raccoon 😂 Sweet haul.
I love that Kurzweil, and you got a freaking complete DJ rig!! Sick score Brad.
2 turntables. All I need’s the microphone!
@@TheGuitologist Where it's at??
We used to have a music shop here where i live in Indiana and they would throw out all kinds of stuff.I found a peavey T45 bass that had so.e really bad frets so all ut needed was a fret job and it worked fine.they also had a strap majubg business in the same building so they would throw out tons of leather scraps mostly smaller stuff but occasionally you could fund a nice piece with a couole blems but easy enough to work around.My friend found a Washburn 6 string that had a broken neck but he was able to fix it and I believe he still has that guitar and this was 30 + years ago.
I'm def about to start hitting the local GC dumpster! It's like Christmas!
Dude, this is where we met five or six years ago....can't wait to see the haul
$25 for a headshell, $50 for a cartridge, $20 for a counterweight, $20 for a Stanton felt mat and $30 for a dust cover and you’ve got a turntable that’s $239 brand new. That’s if nothing else is bent or broken, Shipping will be around $30 if you sell it.
Best bet, sell them for $50 as-is + shipping.
All this was missing is the Mission Impossible theme. Because of your original video I took a late night peek into my local GC dumpster and scored a vox ac10 that I sold for $120 I advertised it as broken and it sold in about 12 hours after posting.
Hahaaaa! Awesome.
First turntable is also missing the counter weight on the tonearm.
Love that intro. Interesting episode for sure. Some good pelf you rescued from that dumpster.
"I'm your host Brad. And welcome to another episode of 'Clandestine Electronics' :) . This week we do a deep dive and ask, "what's going on i the dumpster?" i love these recovery vids. Checking out all the stuff that'll get reused somewhere is quite exciting. The amount of waste is jaw dropping.
sorry to hear about John Prine. I know you were a fan
Even if the stands are broken its mostly all rivets and screws, I repaired a boom stand that had a broken screw, the threads were non-standard so I re-tapped it to a screw knob that I had a few of, If I did not do that I would have been paying £70-£100 to replace it.
You are absolutely justified doing it. United States is waste culture central. It's a joy to see someone fixing up used stuff and getting use out of it instead of always buying new shit. My wife thinks I'm some kind of electronic parts hoarder but I just don't throw very much out because there's always a need for spare parts to fix other stuff. Absolutely nothing wrong with buying used stuff or dumpster diving for things you can fix up, especially music items!
I bet you could have rigged up that pedal to be a security alarm.. 🤣 You could part out the turntable on Ebay if you didn't want to fix it up.
Stanton Keyboard? About 250 bucks on eBay. The stylus end can be got for around 20. The keyboard? Around a grand plus...
Inside info: the regional manager works out of the Louisville store. Never understood throwing away the "bad" cables when you could just walk into any guitar center and tell them they no longer work, no requirement to show you purchased them. They should cut them. The best is when they toss the guitar magazines for the month. Nice haul.
I have no shame. I love dumpster diving! You just never know what you might find. One man's trash is another man's treasure... 👍🎶🙂
Seems like a pretty good idea, even if everything you pick up is broken, you can repair it and make a good amount of money or just sell it on eBay as for parts. 100% profit too
hahaha. Brad all your openings spoofing production companies are great. I loved the HBO one last time, this one is great too. I need to find some treasure filled dumpsters near me apparently. Great find, great video! Keep em coming. God bless you and your family.
That delay pedal sounded like the MLG Air Horn!
The Pioneer DJ Mixer is nice. I used it in my DJ days and loved it. Nice effects onboard. :)
The Kurzweil PC1X probably sold for around $1,500 to $1,700 brand new. It's a little older.
The joyful yet naughty expression on your face early in the vid as you were making your getaway. hahahaha