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Originally Posted by Reece
What a hunky radio and speaker. I'll bet it will sound good. This must be from the last gasp days of Freed-Eisemann. That case could be stripped and recovered with Tolex the way they do with Transoceanics. At least with the dearth of grille cloth these days there is still available plenty of cloth for guitar speakers, which would not look bad with Tolex.
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That could be an interesting project. I've never worked with Tolex before.
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Originally Posted by DavGoodlin
I had an Admiral radio exactly like that. My first experience with the bad mica capacitors formed into the IF can bases. Bought a new IF can for it by Miller, back when you could walk into the jobber and buy stuff, you know.  |
Yeah, if they're bad, I'll have to attempt a repair. I bet it has the mica caps that are riveted to the base and exposed to the air
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Originally Posted by Sandy G
Gonna be a LOT of work, but that Bad Boi will look AWW-SUM-to use the Young Peoples' favorite exclamation- when you get it spiffed up. I'd do a good cleaning, maybe some corrective surgery, a couple of coats of black shoe polish before I ordered up any Tolex.
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We'll see. I'm going to head out later and peel off that electrical tape.