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Originally Posted by Titan1a
Until about a year and a half ago I had an old, good friend who is skilled in Radio/TV repair. He was a source of good units and did excellent work. He no longer wishes to help me which is his right. There's one lone repair shop in a major city that's been sitting on a Philco chassis of mine OVER A YEAR!
A dead piece of electronics is just a nice piece of wood to polish. I have a Zenith 11S474 that has cable problems (1940 cheap rubber, ick!!). Along with that I have a Zenith 8S154 chassis that needs repair and a Radio Shack DX-160 that needs maintenance. Can anyone give me a reference for a repair shop within 200 miles from Omaha, Nebraska. The 11S474 is the most important to bring back to use. Please help this vintage radio aficionado!
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Hi Rick ,
One possible reason your old friend may have given up is that there are many cases where the amount of labor hours required far exceeds both the value of the (restored) unit and the owner's willingness to pay perhaps 2 to 10X the set's worth to have it repaired . A great example is your rubber wired Zenith , I can't throw out an exact number but say it took 20 or 30 hours to totally restore the chassis . A reasonable labor fee for such skilled labor would be $20 to $25 an hour . $400 to $750 , would you really be willing to spend that kind of money ? This is why the majority of us here are antique electronic technicians ourselves , there is no way I'd pay that kind of money knowing how little the greater majority of these tube radios we love are actually worth .