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06-08-2009, 09:44 AM
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RCA Radiola 61-3
I'm getting back into the antique radio hobby after years of not spending any time on it. Last weekend I decided to work on an RCA Radiola 61-3 AM table radio that had been gathering dust in my basement. It powered right up and played, but the speaker's voice coil scraped against the magnet or pole piece. The problem was a broken glue joint between the speaker cone and the stamped basket. I used leftover glue from my last surround repair and clamped the gasket and cone to the basket with two small C-clamps to hold everything in place while the glue dried. The speaker sounds fine now, and the radio tunes all the local stations and plays strongly. It's not quite as pristine as the one in the attached picture, but it looks pretty good.
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06-08-2009, 01:03 PM
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Very nice!
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06-08-2009, 04:33 PM
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Looks more like some kind of gorgeous burled veneer to me. In my opinion, the radio wouldn't look near that good if the burled veneer wasn't around the knobs. IMO of course.
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06-09-2009, 11:04 AM
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I have a similar RCA radio from about the same time as this one with the same type of wood pattern on the front.
See (not mine): http://radioatticarchives.com/radio.htm?radio=2669 Sadly, on mine it is just a "photo finish", not real wood veneer.
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