Nixie Clock on Tonight's Storage Wars

[A. Nonamus]

I saw a nixie clock featured on tonight's new episode of Storage Wars, and what looked like a shop (possibly a mockup) full of nixie and other homebrew electronic gizmos inhabited by an "expert" named Morris... a member here?

For those who follow the show, it was good to see Dave Hester lose money, wasn't it? :-)

[Dekatron42]

There is a clip of that part here: http://www.aetv.com/storage-wars/video/daves-nixie-tube-clock

/Martin

[Quixotic Nixotic]

On 12 Aug 2015, at 07:27, Dekatron42 wrote:

There is a clip of that part here: http://www.aetv.com/storage-wars/video/daves-nixie-tube-clock

/Martin

I have a friend who runs UK auctions of coin-operated amusement machines, circus and fairground memorabilia http://www.elephanthouseauctions.com/

He is regularly contacted by a model of TV show where people 'discover' rare machines in barns and attics. They make the stories up and have invariably bought these things somewhere for their story appeal at far greater sums than they are worth. My friend is often asked to lie about the value for the sake of the camera and storyline. He won't do it.

As moderator of the British Jukebox Owners forum I have many times been asked by TV production companies for any members who have something rare and unusual with story appeal. Sometimes they already bought some junk and want to find someone to make it work. This style of TV show is so cheap and easy for them to make and they think you will be so star struck you'll do it free of charge, including delivery and collection from their premises at times and on dates to their specification.

I was once asked to help a fake scenario where they had bought a junk jukebox. They suggested to me that perhaps someone's Dad is dying of cancer and would love to have this forgotten old jukebox he's had sitting in his garage restored by members of the family, so he can enjoy his last dying days. They will document the process, leading to tears in poor old Dad's eyes when he finally hears that Doris Day record again. Aaagh! 

Usually, when told the timeframe for sourcing missing parts from around the world and the cost of re-chroming alone, they lose interest. They want it quick, cheap and emotional.

John S

[Tom Harris]

Funny story about your mate and TV producers. I used to sell secondhand books and I was asked a few times for a free loan of a book for a TV show. Get real!  Good on your mate for maintaining his integrity and refusing to lie.

Tom Harris <celep...@gmail.com>

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[Nick]

I used to be very active in the HV & Tesla world (still do a bit of that).

We regularly used to get TV/film folk asking for "loan" of HV kit - its a nightmare - the insurance alone is prohibitive, and as you say, they expect it all at cost or less, i.e. for the honour/fun of "contributing".

This is a cheap way of filling programming slots - like so-called "car-crash" television - costs little to produce and is mostly fabricated.

Storage Wars has been continually dogged by allegations from former production staff that stuff was planted in the lockers to add interest to an otherwise tedious & repetitive "storyline"..

http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/12/storage-wars-lawsuit-stars-planted-items-reimbursed/

Its not real, folks. Get used to it :)

Nick

[Jon D.]

The guy was hoping to get $1000 for it (boy, some people really are looking for the quick score)...the pawn broker said it was only worth $150.  WAH...wah....

[Derryck Croker]

>
> On 12 Aug 2015, at 10:23, Nick <ni...@desmith.net> wrote:


> Storage Wars has been continually dogged by allegations from former production staff that stuff was planted in the lockers to add interest to an otherwise tedious & repetitive "storyline"..
>

> Its not real, folks. Get used to it :)

Just like Scrapyard Wars - they always find the bits buried somewhere that will make the designs they have “just” come up with!

Cheers

Derryck

[Alex]

That auction house is delightful and also not an un-feasible distance away from me... Will keep an eye on it, many thanks.

[threeneurons]

Hey, that's Moses ! Haven't seen him in years. I got to mosey up to "the Valley", and see him.

http://www.allspectrum.com/

I was a microbrewery, in Redlands, a couple of years ago, and the old guy, Barry, from Storage Wars drops in. He was with a friend, and they came in his friends car, but he still brought pizza !

[David Forbes]

These TV shows assume that the viewer can't read the word CHRONIX on the
gizmo and type it into Google, thereby dispelling the get-rich-quick
mythos in a few seconds.

--
David Forbes, Tucson AZ

[MichaelB]

Yep. That''s Moses. About 2 miles from my house in the SF Valley. Still buy a lot of my little NE-2's from him and various Nixie clocks supplies. He 's a great guy! Those same guys approached me with that find a while back.