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Originally Posted by Nolan Woodbury
I think the office folks at my business may think I'm losing it...radios everywhere. I try to keep it tidy though, and usually rotate a radio to my desk for a week. Then I plug in another, and so on. In the first pic, a C730 is pulling duty crisply playing oldies for Laura and the other office workers. Heaven sent!
And speaking of working on radios, this is my latest project; the bottom photo shows an attempt to make one good MJ1035 out of two ratty ones. The chassis in the foreground in the one that got destroyed in shipping last year. If the fix is successful, it'll be the new shop blaster. Hope I'm not in over my head...
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Nolan, I was wondering. How is the restoration of that MJ-1035 (the one that was wrecked in shipping some time ago) coming along? If you are using another MJ to repair that one, you shouldn't have much trouble, I wouldn't think.
The desk in your office with the C730 on it looks almost exactly like my computer desk, only the one in your office has the storage cubbyholes stretching the width of the desk; on mine the storage area is only perhaps a foot wide, more or less. I'd put my K731 or C845 on top of the hutch, but my computer's printer is there now (the data cable isn't long enough to reach down to a stand next to my desk where I have my stereo; I used to have my printer on the lower shelf of that stand, but my cat chewed the cable all to pieces!)
I was browsing in AK's Antique Radio forum (this one) earlier tonight and was amazed when I read your thread, "Catching a Buzz . . . " What amazed me was your statement that you used two speakers to test your C730 in which you had an annoying buzzing noise; you said one of those speakers was an 8" one from a junked C845! I was floored. I didn't know (in fact, it never occurred to me) that anyone ever junked radios as well-made as any of the large Zenith table sets were, not to mention the company's other table and console sets from the '20s to the end of their radio era. Was the '845 that speaker came from really in such bad shape that it could not possibly have been restored? I always thought Zenith radios were like cats: they had nine lives.