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PT-1, 80, and 100, $15 (10£) for all of them! In the process of bending the PT-100 and am gonna give it a nice paint job. The PT-80 and 100 were a bit dirty so I stripped them of electronics and gave them a nice washing, now they look brand new!
Hope to get up a post soon with videos of my bent casio MT-55, PT-10, "wuv luv" furby type toy and my Hing Hon EK-001 noise machine :P
nice one, these are beautiful
the pt-100 looks like it might be similar inside to the pt-180, which i posted a thread about the other week...so there should be some sweet distortion bends in there (i found cutting some of the wire jumpers produced some pretty nice effects)
http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,779.0.html
oh also theres a thread here somewhere on the pt-87, it has some nice bends that *should* work on the pt-80 as well,
anyway cant wait for some hot bending video action! ;D
I'd be very curious to hear about what you got out of the MT-55.
Well, the MT-55 has 12 mods total. It was my first project... I probed the board over the course of more than a month after getting it. Once I put my video up I think it can be removed from the "un-bendable" topic ;)
That mt55 of yours is really good. I want to get another one now.
on the subject of casios is there a place where you can send in comments about damaged keyboards and trouble shooting on this forum, as i have an sk-1 I bought and it wont power up i have tried batteries and an adapter and it doesnt work is there something i need to replace or is thers a bend to get it working that i dont know about as i hav been olova da interw3bz an foun nofink.
I wish I could find stuff liek that but i liv in Darnall ,Id be lucky to find a mb mall madness or a furby to bend ,and if you fink im not bieng serious i am .think ofit as what circuit bending would be like on craggy island(Father Ted)
Nice find! I hope the summer brings good weather.
Good weather = Car boot sales!!! ;D
Quote from: Illuminasty on April 11, 2009, 03:15:20 PM
Nice find! I hope the summer brings good weather.
Good weather = Car boot sales!!! ;D
I hope so too. It's been really dull over the winter not being able to wake up early and go out to search for things.
I was much more successful at this local flea market that goes on every weekend here... it's like 100+ yard sales going on all at once and there's some really good finds there every time because of the sheer size of the place, and everybody there is desperate to get rid of things so if you tell them you aren't interested they'll just keep lowering the price.. But of course, bad weather = no flea market sellers..
* In the US we call car boot sales "yard sales" or "garage sales." I understand those terms since it's people selling things out of their yard or garage, but why is the term "Car boot sale" used in the UK?
Quote from: breakbeatnazi on April 15, 2009, 01:52:52 AM
* In the US we call car boot sales "yard sales" or "garage sales." I understand those terms since it's people selling things out of their yard or garage, but why is the term "Car boot sale" used in the UK?
Because its usually a load of cars lined up in a field. People just open their car boots (or trunks in the US i'd imagine), set up a table and sell their crap.
Quote from: Circuitbenders on April 15, 2009, 07:48:52 AM
set up a table and sell their crap.
Forgive the Shakespeare here:
QuoteWhat's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare
Quote from: Circuitbenders on April 15, 2009, 07:48:52 AM
Because its usually a load of cars lined up in a field. People just open their car boots (or trunks in the US i'd imagine), set up a table and sell their crap.
That's what it's like at the "Flohmarkt" (flea market) here. With an accentuation on the word 'crap' of course... ;)
Oh, thanks for the enlightenment...
House/flat
Trunk/car boot
Fleamarket/Flohmarket
I always prefer British terms over US terms. And why the hell aren't we on the metric system over here yet... ugh.
Quote from: breakbeatnazi on April 15, 2009, 09:46:43 PM
Fleamarket/Flohmarket
I always prefer British terms over US terms. And why the hell aren't we on the metric system over here yet... ugh.
I hope i didn't confuse you but 'Flohmarkt' isn't a british or US term but a kraut word... erm... i mean german... ;)
Car boot sales are usually held in a field where anyone can come and sell unwanted goods. Most of the time these sellers pay a fee for their pitch and will set up a table.
Some people also sell cracked software on disks (tsk-tsk) and other things like tobacco etc.
The great thing about Car Boot sales is when the event's finished for the day and everyone packs up, some people throw some of their stuff in the skip (if one's available) and some really good stuff can be obtained for free if you're willing to look ;)
Lol, it's like this post has turned into a language lesson ;D
So I take it that the difference with a Flea-Market is that it's held in a large warehouse???
Quote from: Illuminasty on April 17, 2009, 02:26:45 PM
Lol, it's like this post has turned into a language lesson ;D
So I take it that the difference with a Flea-Market is that it's held in a large warehouse???
Well, yes and no. It can be indoors, but have been to some that were out of doors also.
Quote from: Illuminasty on April 17, 2009, 02:26:45 PM
Car boot sales are usually held in a field where anyone can come and sell unwanted goods. Most of the time these sellers pay a fee for their pitch and will set up a table.
Some people also sell cracked software on disks (tsk-tsk) and other things like tobacco etc.
The great thing about Car Boot sales is when the event's finished for the day and everyone packs up, some people throw some of their stuff in the skip (if one's available) and some really good stuff can be obtained for free if you're willing to look ;)
Lol, it's like this post has turned into a language lesson ;D
So I take it that the difference with a Flea-Market is that it's held in a large warehouse???
1.) Throw some of their stuff in the "skip?" Is that trash?
2.) Yes, it has become a language lesson.
3.) Not at all, flea markets can be held anywhere... churches, gymnasiums, schools, fields, parking lots...
Quote from: breakbeatnazi on April 18, 2009, 08:44:21 AM
Quote from: Illuminasty on April 17, 2009, 02:26:45 PM
Car boot sales are usually held in a field where anyone can come and sell unwanted goods. Most of the time these sellers pay a fee for their pitch and will set up a table.
Some people also sell cracked software on disks (tsk-tsk) and other things like tobacco etc.
The great thing about Car Boot sales is when the event's finished for the day and everyone packs up, some people throw some of their stuff in the skip (if one's available) and some really good stuff can be obtained for free if you're willing to look ;)
Lol, it's like this post has turned into a language lesson ;D
So I take it that the difference with a Flea-Market is that it's held in a large warehouse???
1.) Throw some of their stuff in the "skip?" Is that trash?
2.) Yes, it has become a language lesson.
3.) Not at all, flea markets can be held anywhere... churches, gymnasiums, schools, fields, parking lots...
1.) Yes and no. Let's say you took a whole car load of stuff you didn't want to a car boot sale and you sold some stuff but you didn't sell that crappy inflatable swimming pool or that old TV that's probably only worth a few pennies. You really can't be bothered to pack it back into the car then unpack it at home, so you throw it away. As they say; "one man's junk is another mans jam"... No I just made that up but you get the idea ;)
2.) Wicked! I'll quiz you guys on something soon :)
3.) :o They're EVERYWHERE lol ;D
A flea market can also happen outside. Around where I live there's a seasonal one that happens on rows and rows of tables in a dirt parking lot. If anyone needs quantities of Steven Segal VHS tapes I can tell you where to find them.
Quote from: computer at sea on April 24, 2009, 06:43:53 PM
A flea market can also happen outside. Around where I live there's a seasonal one that happens on rows and rows of tables in a dirt parking lot. If anyone needs quantities of Steven Segal VHS tapes I can tell you where to find them.
Or a bin of stained stuffed animals, right?
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Or a bin of stained stuffed animals, right?
All slightly dirty and stuffed with some toxic polynesian fiber
Quote from: computer at sea on April 24, 2009, 06:43:53 PM
If anyone needs quantities of Steven Segal VHS tapes I can tell you where to find them.
:o :o :o
Found a Realistic Concertmate 200 (VL-1/VL-Tone) at a flea-market yesterday. Didn't know how much fun the ADSR mode would provide ;)
Ok, this weekend it was a Casio SK-1 in near mint condition for 5 Euro. Buried under some electronic parts and stuff... I just saw some keys, the letters 'CAS..." at one side and "...PLING Keyboard" at the other and instantly a small imaginary bell began to ring in my head... ;)
decided to go to a car boot seems as its nice weather now in UK. i got a casio sa-8 for £3 which is a bit much but i got a box of old electronic bits (germaniun diodes mmmm) with about 12 pots and asorted resistors and caps for £1.10 very happy
Quote from: deathbender on May 03, 2009, 06:11:06 PM
Ok, this weekend it was a Casio SK-1 in near mint condition for 5 Euro. Buried under some electronic parts and stuff... I just saw some keys, the letters 'CAS..." at one side and "...PLING Keyboard" at the other and instantly a small imaginary bell began to ring in my head... ;)
hey, me to found a sk1 for 5 euro in a fleamarket a while ago :D sold it for 30, and bought a full upgraded (32mb, fx board, scsi) ESI 32 and a scsi zipdrive for that, and still got 5 euro left ;D
btw, last fleamarked, "Queensday"here in Holland, i found a polysix, just here around the corner :)
of course it was broken, the leaking battery story... but today i fixed it
all together, synth+ new battery+ new ic , it costed me 100 euro and a few hours work
not bad i think.. so now i have 2 polysix ;D ;D
The major problem here is that in the UK car boot sales tend to happen at some ungodly hour of sunday morning and the chances of me being awake and out of the house at 7am on a sunday to pick up all the bargains are zero.
I fail to understand why these things happen from about 7am to about midday when it'd be a whole lot easier for everyone concerned if they just started at about 10am.
Nice job on the polysix by the way, i'm jealous ;) Although the last polysix i had only had about 15 working keys and no amount of contact cleaning or the dozen other things i tried could get all the keys working for more than a couple of hours.
yeah, it 's a lovely synth.. mine to has few keys that don't function, but later on i midify it anyway i guess..
or exchange it for something else.. two of them in a mix is a bit to much maybe :)
Quote from: Circuitbenders on May 08, 2009, 07:49:55 PM
when it'd be a whole lot easier for everyone concerned if they just started at about 10am.
Lucky me thats the time when fleamarkets start over here at sunday... and there's one here on saturday from 14:30 to 19:00... now that's an acceptable time... ;)