03-07-2011, 06:48 AM
The owner of the Bonneville probably just stripped and assembled the bike and sent bits to professionals for painting, chroming, engine rebuild etc. The equivalent on a radio would be to send the cabinet to a french polisher and the chassis to an electronics repair shop. With vintage radios, like many hobbies, you can spend a fortune or do it on a shoestring. I suppose for those who know they will regularly be restoring sets in the years to come it is worth keeping an eye open for bargains in bulk quantity high voltage capacitors. It is frustrating that capacitors can't generally be salvaged from more modern scrap equipment as they will be low voltage components.
