What's under your lip/in your nose right now?

[TWISTED VICTOR]

Hi all . Hey Wiz, Northerner still sells Discreet. It runs $1.68 a pouch (up from .99 a year ago) plus tax and shipping. Your best bet would be to hook-up with one of the guys who's gonna be making an order in the future to offset the shipping, since they make a sizable profit to put it in a box and call the UPS guy .

Gutter, I know the disgust you feel. My dad spent most of his adult life working for an electronics parts wholesaler (up til around 16-17 years ago it was still possible to repair most electronics) that also acted as a drop off point between the consumer and the repairmen. He usually drug home the basket cases the repairmen rejected, he was a real turd polisher at heart. My first good amp was a late '60's Gibson 35 watt practice amp he'd brought home in a wayward condition. I'd guess his time and parts was worth more than it was (this was around 1976), but at least I made out like a bandit .

Welp, gas hit $4.00/gal today. That makes a fill-up around $80 for me. I guess I could paddle the canoe against the current on the Eel River and walk the other 6 miles to work.....

Resuming world domination plans with:

T-Bomb
H2O

[hittman]

Gutter I totally understand where you are coming from. I run into the same kind of thing on the stuff I work on. People start with a great piece of equipment and run it into the ground. Sometimes I just look at them and shake my head. Some of the more high end machines can run in the ten to twenty thousand dollar range and they come in looking like someone rolled them down a hill. It seems like such a shame. I get a kick out of it when I get a twenty or thirty year old machine in and it looks like it just came off the assembly line.


TV, I got gas on the way home. It was 3.57. The fill up was $48. This stuff is getting ridiculous.
General mint

[Guttermouth]

Gutter, I know the disgust you feel. My dad spent most of his adult life working for an electronics parts wholesaler (up til around 16-17 years ago it was still possible to repair most electronics) that also acted as a drop off point between the consumer and the repairmen. He usually drug home the basket cases the repairmen rejected, he was a real turd polisher at heart. My first good amp was a late '60's Gibson 35 watt practice amp he'd brought home in a wayward condition. I'd guess his time and parts was worth more than it was (this was around 1976), but at least I made out like a bandit .

Victor,
That's an awesome story man.We live in such a disposable world these days that it always makes me smile to talk to old repair guys or hear their stories.The dudes that taught me tube theory were that way - they would get ahold of the most ragged out piles of crap that vaguely resembled something similar to an amp and put it back together,make it work and get it back out playing gigs regardless of how much money it made them.
In the grand scheme of things, i guess i could go do machine maintenance at a hospital or programming at a factory and make a killing but, where's the fun in that? even on the worst days, i still get to get 40 year old dirt on my hands and figure out what made something quit working with just a meter,iron and a screwdriver.

don't you say you had a marshall floating around too?


Bacteria frosted
H20
yellowtail shiraz

[Guttermouth]

Hitt,
i bet you do have to deal with alot of the same stuff. i can't imagine dealing with idiots with 20 thousand dollar tools- it would be coronary city

Being raised under the "don't mistreat your tools and they won't let you down" ethos it all just gets to be too much when the owner has more money than sense or shows repetitive careless patterns.

[Guttermouth]

back on topic-

I can't seem to get along with the blue julesnus.I don't hate it but the wine flavor in it is weird to say the least.

thinking about dipping into some onyx

Nothing
H20

[TWISTED VICTOR]

Actually, I have 9 Marshall's, if you include the ones I have on semi-permanent loan to my oldest son, that include 1-45w, 2-50w, 4-100w (all mid-late '60's), and 2-100w I bought new in '82 and '83. I still own the vast majority of everything musical I've ever had, I just don't have current possession of half of it . And Momma complains about the stack in the living room .

hitt, I don't know about you, but I'm starting to feel taken advantage of. On the bright side, one of these days we won't have to worry about trips to the bank and all that bill paying hubbub. We'll be able to trade a paycheck directly to the gas station for a tankful.

Thrilled to say "I don't have to work tomorrow, na-na-na-boo-boo" with:

Odens ES Kanel portion
Folgers ES

[TWISTED VICTOR]

Actually, I have 9 Marshall's, counting the ones my oldest son has on semi-permanent loan, including 1-45w, 2-50w, 4-100w (all mid-late '60's), and 2-100w I bought new in '82 and '83. I still own most of the musical apparatus's's's I've ever had .

hitt, I'm starting to feel taken advantage of. On the bright side, one of these days we won't have to worry about all the banking and bill paying hubbub. Just go to the gas station and trade our paychecks for a tankful gas .

Thrilled to say "I'm off tomorrow, na-na-na-boo-boo" with:

Odens ES Kanel portion
Folgers ES

[W Axl Rose]

Hey all! I'm sitting at the orlando airport waiting to board and return home from disney world. I'm exhausted and sunburned but we had a blast.

Thunder # something

[hittman]

Good morning. Gutter the biggest reason that alot of the welding/cutting equipment I see is in bad shape is because most are purchased by companies for their employees to use and alot of the employees don't give a crap. The older ones that come in to the shop in good shape are usually individual owners or small shops. I try very hard to take care of my tools and test equipment. I've had the same fluke scopemeter for fourteen years. My company supplies my test equipment and tools but that's no reason to not take care of the stuff.

TV, that is alot of amps. I only have a little fender beginners amp and a crate 30 watt amp. The little bit that I have been playing/practicing lately has taken place mostly with my acoustic guitar. I couldn't imagine having a big cabinet. No doubt someone would call the police if I cranked up one of those. Not because it was too loud but more likely for bad playing. I was thinking on the gas station thing. Perhaps instead of handing over a paycheck, they could start drawing blood for payment. You could get maybe five gallons per pint of blood donated. It would just be another hose added at the pump.

Thunder berry
coffee

[hittman]

Hi Axl. Looks like you posted while I was typing. Glad you had a good vacation.