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Yeah, right. No Christmas card for you this year.

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What about Hanukkah?

And I'm sending you a Christmas card anyway and you will just have to get over it.

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Just got home with the 339. My friend collects vintage 70's stereo equipment and he's looking for a like new 70's Sansui, Maranz or Pioneer receiver for me and some AR speakers. They just don't make em like they used to. Nothing like J Giles on vintage stereo gear or Cream!

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Hey Hesh… see what's living in my main room…


Pierre
Guitares Torvisse

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Pierre Castonguay

Boatbuilders use bronze wool, as it doesn't leave rust stains in a rust inducing environment. Perhaps this would be an alternative for those who neither like steel wool nor scotch bright pads.

Thanks Dan and good idea. For me to change though the value add has to be greater than staining when no one's guitar should even ever be in a rust encouraging environment.

What stops me from considering bronze steel wool is it still conducts and that is the major problem with steel wool it can short out the electronics and destroy a pick-up if a small particle gets in the wrong place.

Chris is absolutely right about this and I do not want to minimize his point. We "get away with it"... because we fully tape up the electronics and then clean everything very well afterwards. Still if I had something that worked as well, was not expensive (I go though a lot, did 51 guitars in October) I would use it.

Good idea though man, thanks!!!

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Goodness... I wish I had seen your post a bit earlier, Mr. Breakstone I'll check with Mr. Stock, but last time I was there, I was offered a Sansui 8080 and a few other bits and pieces unearthed from the storage room in the latest round of divestment. I have a nice little system I use in my home, so did not take him up on that offer. At last conversation, I believe it went to one of the shop's long-time customers in trade for a basket case 00-21NY, but I will check and see if that deal went through.

I always wondered what was in the huge Sansui receiver and Technics turntable (I do not recall that model number) boxes buried in the back of the shop storage room, but it appears that they have been used to store their original contents since the 1990's.

Separate note: who keeps the boxes stereo gear came in for 47 years? Apparently the same people that keep their original Apple MacIntosh w/ box and all their Lie-Nielsen plane boxes. Sheesh. The packrat gene seems to be a male-dominant problem. Pay no attention to my spare bedroom closet full of 30 year-old skeins of yarn... totally different situation.

On bronze wool... just like plain steel wool, bronze wool debris can behave poorly with water-based finishes or under shellac, but otherwise is as non-magnetic (so unlikely to migrate to pickups) as the higher quality stainless wool we used.

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And in the original boxes too, very cool!!! I'm good on the stereo gear but thanks a million for the offer Woodie. I like the old stuff from my youth where you turn a knob not search for a plastic remote control

Good point on the brass steel wool not being magnetic, that escaped me.

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I just saw this, very cool Pierre!!! This is the stuff our my youth that I miss and love, real stereo gear not the plastic crap of today.

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