'68 GE AM/FM clock radio

[radiotvnut]

The other day, a friend called to say that he'd bought me an old '50's tube type radio for $10 at a flea market. I asked him to give me some details and he said, "it says 'solid state' on the front; so, that means it has tubes, right?" I corrected him; but, told him to bring me the radio, anyway. If I turned him down, he might stop looking for me and I will miss something good. And, I appreciate him taking the time to get something he thinks I might want as most people would not do so. Upon opening this one up, it appears to be a '68 model and it's built cheaply; just like any other GE of the day. It's an AM/FM hot chassis model with a Telechron clock that works fairly well on AM; but, is dead on FM. All I've done was clean the controls and that didn't help the FM problem. Maybe I'll dig in it one of these days. Somewhere, I have the dual spaeker non-clock version of this radio that has a broken dial string. Also, I have a similar wooden GE solid state clock radio that uses the same basic chassis design.