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Old 06-12-2017, 10:16 AM
dieseljeep dieseljeep is offline
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Originally Posted by wa2ise View Post
You rarely see tube radios at garage sales anymore. But this sale was at a house that dated back to the 1930s, and it may have been used there back in its day. The guy said that it works, but I think "sure...". $5 later took it home and it hums loudly, needs caps, I would have been surprised if it didn't need new caps. Works well once I changed the usual suspect caps.
They generally always need 'lytics and other paper caps. The radio is about 64 years old. Good thing, it didn't have silver mica disease in the IF's.
Were all the tubes original?
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