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Old 10-17-2015, 06:18 PM
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Hello from Virginia

Apparently I made this account a year ago, but I figure I might as well use it. Greetings, all, I'm Josh. I'm a 19 year old screenwriting student at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. I've been collecting since I was 15 or so (whenever I got my tube radio) and have no plans on stopping anytime soon. I'm hoping to learn to repair this stuff, so I can keep using it long term, though admittedly I'm still not very skilled at that. Maybe there's an unspoken rule about having to burn out a certain number of power transformers before you understand what you're doing. Anyway, besides collecting and restoring mid century appliances, I spend my free time writing satirical fiction and screenplays (hence my major).

Nice to meet you all!
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Old 10-17-2015, 07:58 PM
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Freakenomics hu...? That Reagan's book...? Well, good to have ya-

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Old 10-17-2015, 08:14 PM
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Welcome, Glad to know I wasnt the only odball with tube gear in my dorm room...
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Old 10-17-2015, 08:52 PM
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Welcome, from the lower right corner of VA. As an amateur actor in several church plays, I can appreciate the power of scripted satire. Lauds to you and those that came before....
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Old 10-17-2015, 11:32 PM
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Welcome from Nebraska. I love tube radios (two Zenith's!) and also collect vintage computers.
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Old 10-18-2015, 02:20 AM
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Welcome! If your killing power transformers you probably have shorted lytics, shorted rectifiers, shorted B+ rails, or bad luck. Recapping is important to keeping these sets alive, just as much as returning life to them.
Consider taking some Electrical Engineering courses to help you with the basics. As someone who was recapping radios by the time I was 10 or 11 and working on TVs by highschool (first success junior year). I knew much of the course material in my EE major, in the first 2-3 years, before my profs could teach it to me.....I used to blow their minds with insightful questions in the early years.

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Welcome, Glad to know I wasnt the only odball with tube gear in my dorm room...
You've met my friend Chris at the WARCI swap meets. He had the guts of a tube Admiral stereo console as his dorm stereo about 2-3 years ago before he returned to living at home and started commuting to school daily.....As I did all along.

If I had a dorm room instead of being a commuter student living at home, I'd have had tube stuff in my room.....As much of my current rig as I could fit....Glad to be a grad since spring!
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Old 10-18-2015, 08:05 AM
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Old 10-18-2015, 07:02 PM
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THIS POST INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK

Sorry, I tried to reply, didn't see a reply post, replied again, then saw my original reply. I'll learn forum controls, I swear.
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Old 10-18-2015, 07:24 PM
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Freakenomics hu...? That Reagan's book...? Well, good to have ya-

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A teacher in 8th grade recommended I read it. I actually have no idea what it says, I just want to get it off my "to read" list. Just as soon as I finish studying for my HAM license... and learn Esperanto... and get into geochaching...
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Old 10-18-2015, 07:27 PM
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Welcome! If your killing power transformers you probably have shorted lytics, shorted rectifiers, shorted B+ rails, or bad luck. Recapping is important to keeping these sets alive, just as much as returning life to them.
Lytics, definitely lytics. They got really hot when they were running, and they're the originals.
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Old 10-20-2015, 06:14 AM
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That set in your first post looks quite familiar

New Years Eve 2004.....
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Old 10-20-2015, 08:39 AM
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It is TOO LATE for most of us here, but YOU, Dear Lad, might STILL have a chance to DROP this damfool "Hobby", & get into something WORTHWHILE... (grin)
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Old 10-20-2015, 09:47 AM
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That set in your first post looks quite familiar

New Years Eve 2004.....
I doubt it; yours is picking up signal from Buffalo
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Old 10-20-2015, 11:12 AM
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Welcome! Head over to the NCRTV Museum in Bowie and see some of the volunteer techs.
Those guys will get you off to a good start fixing stuff. This is if you choose to ignore Unlcee Sandy's dire warnings. It was too late for me in 7th grade, a Loooong time ago.
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Old 10-21-2015, 09:34 AM
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Just TRYING to give this Fine Lad a Heads Up...Not that it would have helped dissuade ME 20 odd years ago...But I'm NOTORIOUSLY Bull-Headed & Stubborn.. Y'all KNEW that, though... (grin)
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