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Originally Posted by jeffsod
Sorry to hear your set didn't survive the shipping. Seems that buying bakelite sets from ebay can be a crap shoot if the seller doesn't know how to pack them. I lucked out. I just got a vintage Grundig bakelite and the seller shipped it before I had a chance to mention the extra care necessary. This seller wasn't a radio person per say but definetely took the necessary care. Radio arrived in the same condition it was in before being packed. Now it needs the half inch of dust blown out of the inside  The seller said he powered it up and it worked. Looking inside I would say that was risky on his part  I have to get some brasso and start polishing now. |
That's the first Grundig radio I ever saw with just AM, FM and (I think) LW. Most of those sets had at least one shortwave band.
I would definitely get the dust out of the cabinet before you power up that set. With a half-inch of dust in there, it seems to me the radio may not have been used much in the last 30 years or thereabouts. Kind of like my Zenith H511 when I first received it (won it in an ebay auction five years ago). The set had dust in the cabinet like I couldn't believe, and the pilot light burned out the first time I plugged it in after it arrived here. Turns out the pilot-light problem was just a very old bulb and (probably) a deformed filter capacitor; from the looks of the inside of the set, I figured it probably sat in its former owner's basement, garage, attic, etc. for decades without ever being used.