Posted on 01/08/2009 7:34:02 PM PST by RDTF
An eccentric loner in Britain hoarded so much trash he had to burrow through it to get around his home — then got lost in the maze of tunnels Friday and died of thirst.
Human mole Gordon Stewart, 74, had filled his rooms up to the ceiling with 10 years’ worth of garbage and clutter, making it impossible to walk around.
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Actually I saw a collins R390A for sale a while back for 350 which is an unreal price as the thing was in working order
Shipping would have prolly been 75 bucks LoL and it would take over my house! So I left it alone.
I used to align those back in the day
I’ve recently had a terrible experience with an acquaintance who has fallen into almost total chaos in the past few years. I hadn’t been in her house in probably three or four years, had only e-mailed with her and hadn’t seen her since that time. Her obesity has gotten worse, looks like 400 lbs. at this time at least. She can barely walk through her house because it appears that she just flings or knocks down piles of old catalogs and junk mail onto her floors until the piles are now about 3” deep all over the house, solid. Old cat litter litters the floor and her cat has been dead for several months, no way to get at the floors with a vacuum cleaner because of the trash anyway. - She was the baby of her family of several brothers and sisters who are in their 80’s and who need to do something about getting her some help or into assisted living, but I think they’ve just had it with her and aren’t able to deal with her spoiled and difficult behavior. I was all set to take her for surgery and stay with her and take care of her for a couple of days, driving her back and forth to appointments. Only thing was, she kept giving me incorrect addresses for the places we were to be going (it was out of town), so I ended up not having the right addresses to get maps to the places. . plus she kept acting real strangely after I drove for hours getting to her house to pick her up and then for several more hours trying to find the motel where we were to be staying in the town where she had made an appointment for surgery. It appeared clearly that she had just decided to be obstructionist, making it impossible for me to find the places, because evidently she had decided at the last minute she had changed her mind - but blamed ME for not being able to just magically find the places without correct addresses. - I clearly see the passive/aggressive nature of what she did in scapegoating me, but it was still very aggravating to me as I don’t give up easy. It’s almost like there is a very selfish,self-centered, almost cruel, abusive tendency in her disorder - but, after five or six hours of driving around in heavy holiday traffic, with ever-increasing bad behavior from her, I’d finally had all I was going to take from her and things backfired on her. She learned that actions have consequences. I pray for her, and I don’t like bad relationships with people, but her bad behavior really ended up backfiring on her, which was out of my control finally. I hope she gets some help getting taken care of or something.
Is this “hoarding”?
I’m gonna look in my dictionary for this one. What does that word mean?
Yowsers! Still considered one of the best radios ever made. I won’t ruin your “cherished delusions” about a certain depot that buried pallets of those in the ground..
When I was young and through high school I remember a man in my home town named Bob Gilbert.
He was clean, wore a white shirt and a bow tie and lived in a big house. He was elderly, he had a Hudson vehicle in his back yard and his house was full of cats and newspapers.
Man was he living a congested life.
The poor sot was $$$ too boot. He was a nice guy however and when he was a younger man did a fine job of introducing Francis Gumm onto the stage at the Rialto Theater in my home town.
Dang......trouble in many ways for all involved.
P35 and Dv—thanks for the article reference and for he correct spelling of the Collyer name.
Packrat35—how ironic that you are on THIS thread about hoarders!!!
Hoarding is very sad.
An old man who lived a few blocks away was a hoarder. His house had to be torn down because the trash, rot and vermin had made it structurally unsound. When they tore it down, the smell was noticeable for blocks.
I dont think you can get some of those proprietary tubes anymore.
The current limiting tube comes to mind.
It was a great Radio. The best!
But it was a boat anchor of propriety Mechanical tuning and RF Slugs and Collins filters and tubes.
Even Rockwell Collins doesn’t have parts
I have favor for the "heavy" stuff.
The TCS set me back $5 via someones lack of knowledge and time for me building a 600V power supply to run it.
: - )
I am using a Ten Tec R320.
I would like one of the receivers from RFspace to use as a pan adapter ON A GOOD OLD TUBE RADIO! L0L
But Lord, you need real estate to use those old radios.
I just have a 40 meter end fed longwire antenna up in a tree
http://www.r390a.com/Archived%20Pages/radio_rape.html
No, tubes are fairly the easy part! Now, anyway. They don’t wear out sitting on the shelf, and are a perfect vacuum. The internet changed things as far as anything obscure or collectible. You’re right about the current limiters though, they are pricey.
Art Collins grew up not too far from where I live. This area is very good for radio reception because the signals bounce up and down and wherever, along the mississippi valley.
Exactly.
I used to do it and wouldnt know where to begin now LoL
Oh I could figure it out, but then I would have to buy a bunch of test equip too LoL
But thanks for the link ☺
That site makes me sad
Yes, but there are thousands of restored/maintained/repaired sets out there too - some top notch websites maintained by really smart guys. Heck, you should think about it anyways if you need a hobby/extra bucks.. triple conversion and variable IF?? I want the jeep version, the 392 I think it was. Just about as good.
I have a Kenwood for modern use but to be honest, none have seen much use lately however ownership is such a pleasure. : )
I tote a multi band center feed long wire via an MFJ TX tuner via an RF "N" connector transmitter switch.
I have run a vertical multi band with success in the past however the loading was lacking across the spectrum.
A coaxial inverted V has been good in the past but is "high maintenance" and band focused.
My Dell M1730 XPS laptop gets much more use these days than all my radio's put together get.
Triple conversion is pretty common. I am using that on 160M now. But variable IF, That’s tweak city specialized stuff right there.
I hate to see the old sets relegated to the boneyard
Yeah, well thats the thing. This radio stuff is for die hards LOL
At least we dont collect junk L0L
Yes, well, the operative word was certainly not “small” and it certainly wasn’t “light”, either. In the 60’s I lived in northern NJ and used to take the bus or the Hudson Tube/PATH train into lower Manhattan to Radio Row, all of which was razed to build the WTC. I could spend all day there, there were dozens of surplus dealers and junk stores, and you could find literally any part you might want, so long as you were willing to spend the time to find it. It was paradise, for me. All the dealers there could gauge the expansion of a young lads’ eyes and quintuple the price if they saw the requisite amount of iris expansion.
We’re talking strictly tubes. The transistor stuff that was there was really primitive, and for the most part it had to mimic tube design or it wasn’t deemed credible as far as being a viable commercial product.
Many, many times I would buy some bedraggled 70 pound piece of pure crap and drag it home, and hopefully not slice the daylights out of my hands on the metal or the wiring. That was quite a task for a 12 year old.
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