Just acquired a 1939 Motorola Model 82A Radio

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Sometimes people who wanted the effect of a working vintage radio but didn't know how to actually fix it would add a speaker in it and or wire the original into a stereo to fake it....I can remember being 5-9 years old and doing that (granted I didn't hack up the radios I did that with...I knew better even back then).

You were into this EARLY, Tom! At 11, I blew the tiny IC amp in a GE "swinger" portable doing this, wrote to GE in Utica and they sent me a whole new amp PCB for like 15 bucks. Later doing same to my GE C4315 clock radio, I was getting spectacular low-power results.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

You were into this EARLY, Tom! At 11, I blew the tiny IC amp in a GE "swinger" portable doing this, wrote to GE in Utica and they sent me a whole new amp PCB for like 15 bucks. Later doing same to my GE C4315 clock radio, I was getting spectacular low-power results.

Much more than that. Not long after I could walk I removed the screws from the back door hardware(dad was bewildered when I handed him a bunch of screws), then I promptly started dismantling everything I could to understand how it worked. I think I was around 4 when the folks first took me to the family cabin where grandpas Danish Modern tube Zenith K731 was still in service...I couldn't have it (according to Grandma), but ma collects depression glass and we were always antiquing on trips so I started buying radios. Eventually I wanted working ones bad enough that I became acquainted with a shop that gave me enough help to start me recapping.... Shortly after we moved across the country and I was self taught from there. It was probably 4-5 years from recapping radios to starting to try to get into TV...And it was about another 4 years after that until we had something that would pass for internet.