January 2014 thrift store adventure

[@togst]

I actually own the same type oscilloscope! The difference being another brand name and model number. Besides that, 100% identical. Funny how things can be identical and still have different names. A lot of nice stuff as well in that store. Makes me wish places like that would exist where I live.

[@SgtSnazzerino]

Well I'm moving to new Jersey, thrift stores around my area never have stuff like this

[@cjpwolf2436]

same here in the Hudson Valley.

[@russblakeman5568]

50 bucks for a crappy GX270 that likely needs new caps. They need to rethink the word thrift in the name of the store.

[@JohnAudioTech]

If this were my thrift store, me and that scope would be heading for the checkout lane pronto. That Yorx speaker is as good as it gets at the thrifts around here.

[@richardperez1932]

oscilloscope was a mighty find, nice 👍

[@joshm264]

I have a USB scope, but I would've picked that thing up in a heartbeat!

[@Fairlane500skyliner]

$40 for that CRO? Wow, that is awesome! I wish I could find one of those here, since mud wasps destroyed my current CRO (their wet mud nests shorted HV through some of the more delicate components inside it).

[@SebisRandomTech]

That Yorx speaker at 2:54 looks like something poopoogarret would blow. Or smash. Or both.

[@themaritimegirl]

Wow, the JVC tape deck was almost exactly the same as the one I found when I bought the VCR. Interesting to see an oscilloscope there - that'll never happen here. The transfer case for an '86 F-250, maybe, but never an oscilloscope. lol. Nice find of the Eveready Commander lantern; I'd like to get one someday.

[@Fuzy2K]

4:25 -- It's the Encyclopedia Obsoletica!

[@RODALCO2007]

The oscilloscope was a bargain, I would have bought it as a second scope. Interesting stuff.

[@capolaya]

I really like when you try all of the buttons, even if it is disconnected. I do that myself on the stores...lol!

[@Spocker93]

Those 20Mhz oscilloscopes area almost always sold for for less than $50. They are often the low-end models when it comes to typical bench analog scopes. $40 is not a bad price, but what determines whether or not you should buy it is if you can get the documentation for it. Without proper documentation, doing the calibration procedure for the scope can be a bit difficult, not to mention that doing repairs in the future may also be difficult.

[@MMWA-DAVE]

wow $40 for a 20Mhz scope, you could put that on ebay and double your money. Very hard to find anything online for that price that even works.

[@IntelGoesHard]

never seen an oscilloscope at a thrift mart, but i did just score a technics amp and a sansui tapedeck a couple days ago

[@jjjacer]

is this thrift store within 200miles of Wisconsin, id drive there just for that cheap of a scope

[@DanielPinel]

The OptiPlex GX270 is my favorite Dell tower design.

[@mike52787]

if i were there i would have bought the oscilloscope and the dell keyboard.

[@Nickwithneighbors]

Wow that place was selling a burnt cd? pretty low of them if i say

[@WaybackTECH]

Dang, I really need an oscilloscope too.

[@TechnologySpotlight]

If I was there I would have bought that Dell dimension. I had a similar model with a Celeron and Windows XP. My childhood brought back!

[@cyberzonie631]

Good price on the scope.

[@zzoinks]

I wish my goodwill was this interesting.

[@garygrove1895]

What brand scope was that?? Did you buy it ?? Gary G. ~~ from You Tube

[@WeatherSTARIII]

My grandparents have that same exact silver JVC cassette deck. I also have that same exact black Dell PS/2 keyboard, but not the beige one that has the original Dell logo.

[@matmroy]

York, that takes me back to my childhood.

[@InsanePsychoRabbit]

The bootleg music CD was amusing but not surprising. I found bootleg Playstation games at a Goodwill once. Even weirder, one of them was Thrill Kill, which was never legitimately released because it was stupidly violent.

[@alynicholls3230]

nice scope those old 20-60mhz scopes are useful to have, if you have a modern computer based scope and analyser you cant do higher voltage repairs(example tv flyback etc), so one of those make a nice addition, i build custom one off pc's for a living, but for a hobby i build and repair radio's and metal detectors, an analogue scope is essential for setting up and testing pulse induction detectors, due to high flyback voltages, so even if you have a good pc scope you still need an analogue one and a set of 100x and 1000x probes.

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Is that the unique store in union nj on route 22 the first one by the dollar tree?

[@RyanTheHermVixen]

It is. I can recognize it from a mile away. I used to go there everyday but since stopped going to the rt 22 store because the prices went way above and beyond, past the moon. You were able to pick up everything you see in this video at half the price maybe even less and now they want top dollar on yard sale leftovers. Recently they had a small antique Zenith radio which was in bad shape and was missing parts for $150 along with a common $10 antique fan in poor shape for $40. This store suffers from the, "hey, its old so it must be worth hundreds!" syndrome. The one in South Plainfeild is cheaper and gets better things.

[@MercedesCitarobusvideos]

Can you make a Thrift store adventure 2015 video? :)

[@PeterMilanovski]

Woah! I have the same oscilloscope except it's a different brand and it's in new condition but cost me $160... It's a great scope!

[@wilkes85]

Some cool little tidbits there... the thrift stores around here have been pretty uninteresting lately, although I did pick up some cool stuff this past month. Imagine how horrible it would have been if you bought the Miata poster and it didn't fit in your car? Oh well, I guess you could have re-donated it again LOL.

[@compu85]

The Miata poster would be a nice troll gift for bhtooefr hehe!

[@vwestlife]

That's the first thing that came into my mind when I saw it!

[@tessierashpoolmg7776]

You guys are working hard at hoarding and then putting the experience on KZbin,with respect, thanks for the belly laff.

[@vwestlife]

+Mike Garber I guess you didn't read the description, where I wrote *"I didn't buy anything shown here."*

[@SPOONman4000]

I have one of those lanterns. I use it to light the room in the wee hours on mornings I go to work because a regular lamp is too much light for my not-awake eyes.

[@coondogtheman]

What thrift store is that? Theres one (salvation Army) about 45 mins from me but it doesn't have much that's really good but I did find an eyeclops TV Microscope. And I have one of those wowee amps. And my cousin had one of those eveready fluorescent flashlights.

[@fxckrio]

I am pretty sure that 3 dollar dell keyboard was the ibm model m rebadge that they made

[@FlyingDutchman19801]

It's not, but he should've bought it anyway :)

[@fxckrio]

FlyingDutchman19801 Yeah.

[@kylebob2573]

wow they sell pirated music to wow

[@Amy-ft5mt]

lol

[@dawn1berlitz]

if you are into any old electronics would you know anything about old tubed guitar amps

[@RetroGamerVX]

Wow, that thrift store is like being in the disposal cupboard at work, apart from it's all free!! :o) On a side note, at the thrift store today, I found a marantz tape player from 1985, the performance of which, blew me away. I will have to dedicate it's video to you when I do it :o)

[@vwestlife]

You mean "...dedicate *its* video". ;-) The Nakamichi cassette deck that I got for $6 at the thrift store is the best tape deck I have ever owned.

[@RetroGamerVX]

vwestlife Your a grammar nazi tonight? lol. Naa, it's, as in, belonging too lol ;o)

[@vwestlife]

RetroGamerVX It's a shame so few people use the English language in its proper form. :-)

[@RetroGamerVX]

vwestlife Only the English ;o)

[@RetroGamerVX]

yup :o)

[@BassGoesBoom1]

dell keyboard was easily worth 3 bucks.ALPS switches right?

[@cristiannicolae6309]

40$ for a working 20MHz oscilloscope, i'm sort of jealous that you guys can get these things for such a low price.

[@trippycheese7829]

What does it do?

[@MaxIThink]

+LeafyIsMemes It's a way to measure audio waves.

[@rodrickbourque]

Not quite the case, LeafyisMemes. It visualizes electronic signals, and waveforms. Audio is a fluctuating electronic signal, but it doesn't just "measure" audio.

[@Blacklight8001]

4:43 thats a paper jamz speaker for the paper jamz guitares

[@LowBudgetProductions]

Piece of junk is what it is

[@PavelUrusov]

It's a pity you didn't buy that Dell keyboard because it's a real Alps made by Alps in Europe and not by Silitek in South-East Asia. It also has beautiful PBT dye-subbed keycaps that don't turn yellow over time.

[@bakonfreek]

I wish my local thrift store was this interesting.

[@Blacklight8001]

I want some of whatever the pricers are smoking, because 50 dollars for a pentium 4 computer isn't worth it.

[@adam723]

Is this the Unique thrift on 22 in Union/Springfield? Some of that stuff looks familiar.

[@NJRoadfan]

Looks it to me.

[@vwestlife]

NJRoadfan Nope... Watchung.

[@stereomann83]

seems kind of high for those dell PCs im guessing there p4's

[@jaxsonme]

1:20 what is that? The actual thing he was using

[@RetroGamerVX]

What the bugger was that $2.99 thing near the end?

[@vwestlife]

That was an Eveready fluorescent lantern.

[@dictare]

vwestlife They must have taken their design queues from the radio shack bulk tape eraser.

[@RetroGamerVX]

dictare I've not seen that :o(

[@Oregonian1]

vwestlife The Eveready was $4.99. RetroGamerVX was talking about the $2.99 unit before the Eveready at 4:26. It was maybe a speaker / amplifier? Nice video. Thanks for sharing.

[@vwestlife]

Ed Schwarz That was a toy amplifier in a cardboard box made to look like a tube-type guitar amplifier.

[@ViperJay5]

Eww, GX270s...nice machine though. I had one but it died right then and there due to bad caps on the motherboard. I heard they're all prone to bad caps from that era.

[@Siknik64]

That Sony Mavica looks like it might of been a step up from your current camera. Haha. Kidding.

[@The_Laser_Channel]

The prices there aren't so bad...you wouldn't believe some of the prices we have here in our thrift stores.....I've run across a Durabrand DVD player for $80 w/in the past 2 or 3 months......for $80, I can get a Sony Blu-Ray player! (not that I buy Sony products besides PlayStation)

[@sirmugman]

what the differance between those two dells so that ones $50 and the other is like 15?

[@ethan043]

+sirmugman One's newer.

[@sirmugman]

MrEthan520 Anonymous ah i see one is a pined pent 4 and the other is pen less pent 4

[@gmcnewlook]

Wow, a dell dimension 4300 for 14 bucks, for the longest time I used one, I got mine brand new in 2001 with windows me (shudders) I put xp (xp wasn't out yet when we bought it) on it later

[@theoblivious2001]

Is there any sales tax when you buy from the thrift store ? (I know you didn't buy anything shown)

[@vwestlife]

Yes.

[@theoblivious2001]

Okay thanks ! Keep making awesome videos !!;)

[@JoshuasRecordings]

You have a nice thrift store!

[@Fairlane500skyliner]

Wow, that thrift store has an intriguing habit of pricing everything so that the price is "$X.99"!

[@MrJ0mmy]

Wow please do more of these videos

[@Jallge]

I'm pretty surprised that you didn't buy that Dell keyboard.

[@vwestlife]

I already have one.

[@SudosFTW]

***** I bought that keyboard. goput.it/50z.jpg I had a "HOLY $#!&" moment when I saw it in the video. I have a friend in the general Lake Hopatcong area with a 100wpm average that enjoys the feel of Alps switches very much, so I always pick her up any AT101's when I see them. still waiting for those ever-so-rare Alps Pink switches to show up in any, or the elusive black AT101W to show up.

[@joshm264]

3:50 that keyboard is a buckling spring keyboard

[@vwestlife]

No, that's a Dell "bigfoot" keyboard, and they use Alps switches, not buckling spring.

[@joshm264]

@@vwestlife could've sworn I read somewhere that they were made by IBM for Dell

[@crtsaretubular3940]

I have that exact cassette deck.

[@ryanj4097]

don't you just love the sound of a keyboard clicking.

[@theoblivious2001]

I hate it tbh

[@alankearton8284]

Would you ever buy an oscilloscope?

[@JonasKvale]

Please tell me you bought that $14 Windows 2000 desktop PC

[@MixerVM]

What should he have bought it for?

[@JonasKvale]

I just love old computers. It's just me :)

[@JonasKvale]

Oscar Lupton I'm not alone! That's pretty cool that you own that, especially on CD instead of Floppies!

[@ghaager]

Jonas Kvale me too loves old computers.

[@CondemnedGraham]

That thrift store is massive.. I wish I had thrift stores that sell electronics in the UK.

[@KingsleyKingOfHV]

We do? What about YMCA Charity Shops? They have electronics lol But I do admit £40.00 for the cheapest Chinese CD player you can get, is a no go.

[@CondemnedGraham]

Was hoping for computers.

[@PaulWoodman83]

I found in the UK the best place to go was the local dump/recycling center. However some of the jerks at the place would shout at you for diving into the goodies like I was stealing money from them. They made it out to be a health and safety issue... Pfff whatever!

[@edison700]

did you end up buying that sony camera that takes floppy disks?

[@NayabWarach]

he did

[@themrenerd7384]

+Nayab Warach It says this in the description, but you are so silly that you wont read it. " I didn't buy anything shown here. "

[@NayabWarach]

the mre nerd​ he has one of those cameras then. 

[@themrenerd7384]

Nayab Warach Yes

[@elmasteryu]

that thrift store looks familiar... do you live in new jersey?

[@vwestlife]

Yes.

[@jackon6546]

The only electronics the thrift stores near me have are broken clock radios. :(

[@wcnmvp3820]

0:16 Ooh, Mazda Miata

[@KayvonJavid]

A Dell at101 a rare find!

[@kingcorduroy1686]

They are really optimists with those prices lol

[@noahhughes2501]

you 'mericans are spoiled for choice, i just find used straighteners and coffee machines.

[@JonnyInfinite]

Some groovy stuff here..

[@jasonrodda98]

listen to miley rocking in the background lol

[@codykamminga9667]

50 dollars for a GX270?

[@stonent]

12 crispy crunchy capacitors included at no additional cost.

[@mercuryoak2]

Heck alot of that stuff you cant find in Connecticut. Well goodwill I mean. Records tapes and 8 tracks. But I hate it when kids damage it also not to mention some parents I swear let them do it. Damage record players etc. Although my first computer was a Pentium 3 goodwill find. But it had everything. Except disk. For Windows95 so upgraded to 98 se ran that for eh 2006 to 2008 when I built my asus I gotta get that running again. Replaced cmos battery last year after making sure everything disconnected. I took memory out to be overly precautionary and all I had was a red light when power on no beep nothing. Im replacing power supply cleaned board cause had dust. Hopefully get it back running. For a 2.5 gb memory 1.8 ghz sempron amd 939 socket and 320 gb hd sata with 8500gt nivida graphics card it was a fast . Computer. My Toshiba laptop with dual core processor I 3 I think it called. Is slightly slower but is a 2012 plays some games but desktop blows that out of the water

[@trippycheese7829]

I am in CT too. There can be some interesting stuff at Savers on the Berlin Tpk.

[@1marcelfilms]

kind of expensive there here the cameras cost like 3 eur

[@fibersilkington]

That keyboard was VERY old, ha.

[@VSigma725]

$50 for a GX270? Jeez, I got a 260 for $20 and even then I could have probably gotten one for free!

[@markcovington8159]

Hey VWestlife. I believe you did a fine job making & editing this video for KZbin. I really & truly like it. :) If I do get back to making any KZbin videos, I would at least try to not have any music in the background. I've never added any background music on any of the videos I've done. I totally respect KZbin's copyright policy. What do you think about that? :) What do you think KZbin may think about that? :)

[@connorm955]

Dimension 4300s go for up to $200 on ebay. Ridiculous.

[@JamesHyde95]

I saw something high school musical in the beginning!

[@The_Laser_Channel]

LOL....pirated Beatles album at a thrift store...

[@Maybeitsmaybelline0]

MILEY CITRUS THE CLIMB

[@VickyGeagan]

that oscilloscope is a very good considering new they are around $2,000 dollars new us maybe a little more and wild unexpected bill can always use another dell optiplex or two lol He would love you for it love your videos

[@POKEGAMERZ-uy5lv]

U didn't even show your finds.

[@vwestlife]

I didn't buy anything.

[@POKEGAMERZ-uy5lv]

vwestlife 1 day try and get like an Alienware or Cyberpower or something with Windows 10 installed and review it and play Steam games like CSGO, TF2, Black Ops 3 and more.

[@1980sGamer]

+POKEGAMERZ 9185 He doesn't play games.

[@POKEGAMERZ-uy5lv]

1980sGamer Sometimes I see him play games in his videos. Fun fact. Did U know that vwestlife is gay?

[@1980sGamer]

POKEGAMERZ 9185 Yes I did. And why does that matter?

[@Thunder3torm]

that is one expensive keyboard

[@heatedpoolandbar]

I love the Sony Mavica! I hate how my thrift stores rarely have anything nice and when they do it is very over priced.

[@d.i.n.g.u.s]

Unique FTW

[@SPEEDTRIBESAKURA]

MUST----HAVE----MIATA-----UGH! *dies*

[@unlokia]

What silly pricing ^__^

[@kylebob2573]

those computers are a rip off you can find the same thing at a yard sale for free or very cheap those computers are now worth 40$ their kind of old.

[@raymondleggs5508]

yorx speakers *shudders*

[@Sco1t19]

wow. I wish there was a shop like that where i live :)

[@Oxocero]

Kewl

[@kylebob2573]

3$ for a dang keyboard they must be out of their minds

[@mike52787]

no... that is a 1980s dell keyboard with alps keyswitches. very very good keyboard.

[@vwestlife]

mike52787 It is from the early 1990s, to be exact. I think Dell used that old logo until 1993 or so.

[@mike52787]

thanks for the clarification. i had seen that ancient dell logo on a dell 286 machine from 1988.

[@kylebob2573]

Oh did not know the age

[@filipmac1545]

the old disgusting junk store