CapStans Repairs — a one-person shop.
Specialty vintage hi-fi repair and resale, based in San Antonio. 1970s through the early 1990s. Receivers, amplifiers, tape decks, turntables, speakers, and reel-to-reel.
How I ended up here.
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Placeholder copy: anything else readers should know about your story before the rest of this page makes sense. Keep it human, keep it short.
A 1980 Eddie Bauer Bronco.
Placeholder copy: the story of the Bronco. Why this truck. The palette of cream, walnut, rust, and mustard you see across this site is borrowed straight from its interior and its bumper.
Placeholder copy: a few lines about how the truck shaped the way you think about restoration — what you keep original, what you change, where you draw the line.
The bench.
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Restoration, not reinvention.
Placeholder copy: your guiding principles. Keep it short and confident — three or four lines about what you do and don't do, what 'restored' means in this shop, and how you decide when something is finished.
Placeholder copy: a closing line about why this gear is worth restoring at all.
Want to bring a piece by?
Local to San Antonio, willing to travel for pickup and dropoff within reason. I'd love to hear what you've got.