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Originally Posted by Sandy G
...Add to that list of my poor, poor radios that want a tower to be fed from, a Zenith MJ-1035. Mine is the 12 tube version, a SILLY number of tubes for a set which was produced c.1965, more or less at the tail end of the Tooob era...
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I have an MJ1035 also, Sandy, but it's not working at the moment -- however, it worked and sounded great when it was working. It suffered a few indignities, such as being thrown around at the UPS terminal and generally manhandled, while in shipment to my apartment from Arizona (I got the set from a VK member who doesn't post here much anymore). The radio arrived here with two loose potentiometers, but miraculously it still worked right out of the shipping box -- go figure.
Four years later the volume control is shot, however, and I made the mistake some months ago of taking some of the tubes out and putting them in a little red box. This may not seem like a mistake, but the mistake actually was when I put the red box somewhere and hid it from myself! Now I can't find the box no matter where I look, although I'm sure it must be around here somewhere.
I swear, my apartment must have a Bermuda Triangle somewhere in the bedroom, as things often get misplaced or downright lost around here and I can't find them for days, weeks, months, even years (! ! !) afterwards; in fact, I think that's what must have happened to the box I put my radio's tubes in. Right now, I'm thinking the box is under my bed, in a place I cannot reach without poking a broom handle around in there. I'm half thinking of giving up and looking for replacements online. I used to know the URL of a surplus electronics parts dealer somewhere out West, IIRC, but it escapes me as I write this. Just wait -- as soon as I post this the address will come to me. I've had that happen to me more times than I can count.
