21-11-2016, 01:18 PM
The local boot sale venue is just off a narrow road that I travel on my way to work. Earlier this year a truck had shed its load of timber, so I decided to have an early bird snout round and came away from the first stall with an SME Mk 3 tone arm in perfect condition for 50 pence, and another stall yielded a Vidor vhf valve portable for a pound. 
The lady selling it said she thought it worked when it was last used years ago, but that it had no plug and warned me that the batteries may be a little difficult to get!
I felt sorry for the lorry driver having to handball all that timber back on his truck, but I like to think of it as fate wanting me to have that old Vidor. The tone arm was sold "shortorder" to finance the restoration, when I get "round to it".
I hardly ever frequent boot sales, but was pleased I did that day.
Andy.
The lady selling it said she thought it worked when it was last used years ago, but that it had no plug and warned me that the batteries may be a little difficult to get!I felt sorry for the lorry driver having to handball all that timber back on his truck, but I like to think of it as fate wanting me to have that old Vidor. The tone arm was sold "shortorder" to finance the restoration, when I get "round to it".
I hardly ever frequent boot sales, but was pleased I did that day.
Andy.
