Repairing/Selling tube radios?

[Jeffhs]

I have several vintage Zenith radios and two antiques (Zenith H511-Y, 1951, Zenith C845, 1960, the latter being the radio in my avatar) which I do not intend to sell. The H511 was the start of my collection; I got it on eBay because I'd had a set just like it back in the '70s (I don't remember what happened to it). My collection just kept growing after that; I now have seven Zenith radios, two Sony all-transistor portables from 1973, and an Aiwa AM/FM set from 1967. Haven't had to do anything to any of them to get them to work, although one of my Zeniths, an MJ1035, has audio issues (almost no sound from stations and lots of hum). Regardless, these radios are keepers as far as I'm concerned. Zenith made some excellent radios in its day; they are well worth the effort to restore, as are older RCA, Philco and other radios from the '50s and earlier. If you have a bunch of old antique or vintage radios, I'd say keep them if you have the room. They don't make them like that anymore; I say this all the time about Zeniths, but the saying rings true for all the other major radio manufacturers of the '20s to the '50s as well.