FS Parting Out working Ampex 440 1" 8 track

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FS Parting Out working Ampex 440 1" 8 track
good cond
good heads
working

got everything but the rolling rack

email your needs

thx
Happy Thanksgiving all
mm

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Kendall <kbergheim@sbcglobal123.net> wrote:
>"MrMarksMusic" <mrmarksmusic@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:20041124225031.07908.00001189@mb-m07.aol.com...
>> FS Parting Out working Ampex 440 1" 8 track
>> good cond
>> good heads
>> working
>
>I thought people usually parted out "non-working" things. Why not sell it
>instead of breaking up an allegedly working machine? Oh, and by the way, do
>you EVER have any input in any topic other than your own sales posts? That
>seems rather rude, if not.

Because it's more profitable to butcher the machines than it is to sell
them whole. That's what's _really_ sad.

The worst are the 350 machines, which are being mutilated to use the
electronics as "mike preamps." And the transports are basically discarded.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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Mike Rivers wrote:
> In article <dfppd.22491$zx1.15465@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com> kbergheim@sbcglobal123.net writes:
>
>
>>I thought people usually parted out "non-working" things. Why not sell it
>>instead of breaking up an allegedly working machine?
>
>
> Yeah, an AG440 doesn't even have great toob preamps. There's another
> guy here thinking about getting a TASCAM 38. Maybe he'd be interested
> in it.
>

There's this for $1800 (that nobody bought):

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d [...] eName=WDVW

Is that a fair price on these things?

Chris