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Originally Posted by TV-collector
Hi,
It is a problem, that japanese collectors doesn't share informations with us. 
I have one good friend over there, but he doesn't collect TVs or has friends in this TV busyness.
Some years ago, I made bad experiences with the boss of the japanese collectors club.
He wanted to know, how I could find him online and who is the (bad) guy, who bought me all the old radios, TVs and shipped them to Germany!
I had to search for him here for a source of vintage transistors, but the other way round he didn't answer my questions about schematics and missing knobs. 
Another problem is the complicated language.
It is easy, to get in touch with collectors in Europe, north & south America. But not with japanese collectors.
If they were interested, they could show their stuff here or in an european forum.
It is maybe different to the audio-fools. 
Happy weekend,
TV-collector  |
I've had the same experience! The Japanese collectors are a more insular hobbyist community than any other group I've ever tried to contact or be a part of. I am acquaintances with
one sympathetic collector who has helped me with some hard-to-find service data (mostly sending me physical copies in the mail), but the language barrier makes communication difficult, and he's pretty apprehensive about sending parts. One of my late friends was a prolific collector of vintage Japanese computer systems and had the same problems, with one Japanese collector telling him off for stealing their "cultural artifacts"
