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Originally Posted by funken
Instead I'll send it off to be tested.
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Just be aware that shipping and labor costs for diagnosing a radio can greatly exceed the value of your radio. You may never be able to recoup the costs you spend on the radio getting it repaired, so it usually done with that in mind.
The Radiola I purchased seemed to be already working, but I only use it for maybe an hour at a time, and make sure I am there listening to it in case something does go wrong. But with the other old radios I have, I used that light bulb test circuit (it is easy and inexpensive to make) in the link to initially test the radios, and from the results I could determine if the radio is worth repairing (if it is a simple cap replacement it is fairly inexpensive, whereas a major component replacement can be expensive). At least with that test, I could make a good decision on what to do next.
I myself purchased a NRI radio repair course on eBay, and am training myself how to troubleshoot and repair radios ... of course, the earlier radios have simple circuits and are easier to repair. I found getting the radios repaired by someone else was too expensive.