Hi all, I mainly joined up here because I'm hunting some maroon knobs
I'm not particularly into Vintage Radio even though I've worked in hi-fi retail since 1974

I mainly need maroon knobs for some old electric guitars I'm restoring, about one inch diameter is the size

Will swap a working Etone 619 speaker for the right knobs
(Just in case Mr Maven sees this, heh)

Cheers, squatch

I see you, Mr Squatch. However I don't have any maroon knobs and I have restored my Etone speaker with a foam replacement.

There have recently been bulk lots of knobs offered on that auction site - don't know about maroon though.

Keep visiting this forum and you might find that you are more "into" vintage radio than you realised.

Maven

G'day Squatch,

Welcome to the forums. You never know, you may get bitten by the vintage radio bug. Kriesler was still making its last valve radio well into the 1970s and your store may have sold a few of them. We are yet to work out when Kriesler actually stopped production of the humble 11-99, a plastic transportable that came in three or four colours.

Best of luck getting the knobs.

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Thanks for the welcome guys!

I do appreciate vintage gear but I'm more in the musical instrument side these days
I worked in hi-fi retail from '74 - '79, they had some nice gear then too
(I've still got a pair of the old Monitor Audio MA3's with the oval EMI woofer)

At the moment I'm building a bunch of relic replica Fender style guitars and some maroon knobs would look pretty groovy

I've seen ones like this, but postage from OS is a bit prohibitive

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I think they'd look great on the tortoiseshell with the old maroon Duncan pickups I've got

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Anyway, I'll keep looking
But let me know if you want that other Etone Maven, it works fine but the foam has some splits

cheers, Dave (squatch)

Re HiFi - I'm still using the kit I bought in 1978. Luxman L505 receiver, Luxman PD272 T/T, Celestion Ditton 15 speakers plus Wharfdale bookshelf monitors. Even my Nakamichi 480 cassette deck gets a run from time to time, mainly to transcribe something to digital file.

The amp had never needed anything but cleaning the switches every few years, until recently the power-on delay capacitor (electrolytic) needed replacement ($1.50).

Younger generations are very surprised by the sound quality - modern gear tends to be harsh and calibrated for doof-doof-tish-tish jungle "music".

I had a Fender Twin Reverb back then, too, but sold it with related gear when I became a father and gigs were no longer an option. Little knowing twenty years later son would become professional guitarist. Now I just have a couple of baby Fender solid-state practice amps - a Frontman and a Squire - both rescued from recycle shops.

re knobs - US postal charges can be bizarre these days. I've seen $5 items offered online with $75 international courier as only delivery option!

You could consider moulding your own knobs with an epoxy compound. I've recently done some experiments recorded on this site and there are lots of online threads about ways to do it. Those Fender knobs should be fairly easy to mould because of their conical shape.

Maven

US postal charges can be bizarre these days. I've seen $5 items offered online with $75 international courier as only delivery option!

I've seen crazy stuff like that, too. What a ripoff! In some cases I've emailed the seller to ask if that's for real.

In my experience, there's often a minimum spend requirement for "international" orders, too.

People who offer couriers as the only delivery option shut me out of the deal automatically. It's silly that they expect someone to be at home to sign for a parcel when everyone works these days. By that I mean men and women - no-one's around to accept the delivery, etc.

By putting items in the post instead this issue doesn't come about - the humble post office box means I can collect parcels after work and sign for them there at the post office. Security is better too.

Of course there are things that the post office will refuse to carry and this means a courier is necessary. I understand that in New Zealand couriers can drop items to PO boxes for a nominal charge. Perhaps Australia Post should be doing this too, given that their letters business is just about shot to hell. This would help make up some of their revenue shortfall.

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I understand that in New Zealand couriers can drop items to PO boxes for a nominal charge. Perhaps Australia Post should be doing this too,

Australia Post has agreements with couriers to allow for that, but only with those who will pay the associated charge to do so. They now also offer the after hours parcel lockers service, but again the courier has to agree the associated AusPost fee.

Domestically, Startrack Couriers (which is owned by AusPost) delivers to PO boxes.

Their CEO has announced that big changes are in the works to cater for the huge increase in parcel traffic and the fact that people are not at home to receive courier deliveries. Making it easy, and cost-effective, for international couriers to deliver to AusPost points would make a great deal of sense.

Making it easy, and cost-effective, for international couriers to deliver to AusPost points would make a great deal of sense.

Hear Hear. I think it will happen in the long run as the days of postal services relying on their letters businesses is just about over. When companies who bill their clients sign up new customers they are more often forcing them to be e-mailed invoices and correspondence. Alternatives either don't exist or the said companies will reluctantly do it for an added fee and then continually nag those customers to get up with the times, for want of a more polite way of putting it.

As for me, I don't remember sending a traditional letter to anyone in the last twenty years at least. I first switched to only making phone calls and these days I blend that with e-mail.

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Yeah guys, I've been going crazy over the postage
I'm trying to sell a bunch of NOS generic styli, but since Australia Post doubled the small parcel fee it's barely worth it
They were charging $3.50 a few years ago and now it's $6.95
I don't mind selling cheap but Australia Post is getting more out of it than me!

I agree about the US, it's all over the place with the prices
I've been mainly buying guitar bodies, necks & pickups but often the postage costs more than the item, eg $39 pickup with $45 postage
And yet I see guitars listed for $70 postage to Oz (which is much better than the $300 I was paying 8 years ago)

I mainly try to hook up with sellers that have got a bunch of stuff I want and bundle it

often the postage costs more than the item

I've struck that many times. If it makes sense to do it I sometimes order multiples of the part to make the postage worthwhile. One thing's for sure, postage will not get any cheaper.

The courier business here is owned by just a few companies. Like the insurance business, they have lots of brands, but at the top of the pyramid there are just a few major players controlling the game.

A lot of these US sellers won't send by ship either
I always offer the cheap option if I'm sending something large overseas
The guy I buy all my bodies and necks from will only send by air 5 bodies at a time
I could've saved over a grand by now if they'd been sent by ship
I don't mind waiting 2 months if I'm saving that much

The courier business here is owned by just a few companies. Like the insurance business, they have lots of brands, but at the top of the pyramid there are just a few major players controlling the game.

And banks, supermarkets, oil companies, even the once humble community credit union no longer exists in the way they were originally.

The guy I buy all my bodies and necks from will only send by air 5 bodies at a time.

Hope you don't mean human bodies...

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QUOTE: The courier business here is owned by just a few companies. Like the insurance business, they have lots of brands, but at the top of the pyramid there are just a few major players controlling the game

The guys on the guitar forum were saying 'don't use eBay, they're the evil empire', but they own Gumtree, Reverb & others

Sorta like how Coca-Cola own all the different bottled water companies...no getting around it!.

QUOTE: Hope you don't mean human bodies... Tongue

No Brad, ever since they outlawed the human remains trading on eBay, I've been concentrating on guitar bodies only

Relic replicas of 50's & 60's Fenders in proper nitrocellulose finish

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Ahhhh yes, very nice.

Yes most bottled beverages are made by either Coke or Schweppes now. Still quite a few smaller companies but you usually have to leave the capital cities to find their wares.

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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...