10-10-2012, 07:18 PM
A great guy Ben - very skilled. He'll make knobs for anything and has quite a range of dials and lots of other useful bits. I guess he'll add the Radialva to his list. He and Corrien Maas (bespoke speaker fabric hand loom weaver, also in Holland) are at the top of their game.
As to being a 'restorer' not a collector, same here!
Collecting becomes a bi-product which arises by default, because once I've restored a radio, I don't like to part with it! Quite apart from that, it makes little economic sense as the initial cost of the radio plus parts (especially output valves, magic eyes and caps) will often be greater than can be realised if the radio is sold. The trouble is that domestic space is finite and if every radio is retained, restoration activites come to a halt due to lack of space. Really, I need a Dr Who tardis - don't we all!
If anyone is in this game for money, and I'm not, the most logical thing to do isn't to restore radios but to strip them down and sell the bits. A DAC90A for example, is worth far more in bits than as a whole. Dial, knobs, back, speaker, OPT, wavechange switch, cabinet, frame aerial, the shoddy mains socket (the male plug is fixed on the rear apron of the chassis - the socket (female) often wrongly called the 'plug' is on the mains lead).
As to being a 'restorer' not a collector, same here!
Collecting becomes a bi-product which arises by default, because once I've restored a radio, I don't like to part with it! Quite apart from that, it makes little economic sense as the initial cost of the radio plus parts (especially output valves, magic eyes and caps) will often be greater than can be realised if the radio is sold. The trouble is that domestic space is finite and if every radio is retained, restoration activites come to a halt due to lack of space. Really, I need a Dr Who tardis - don't we all!
If anyone is in this game for money, and I'm not, the most logical thing to do isn't to restore radios but to strip them down and sell the bits. A DAC90A for example, is worth far more in bits than as a whole. Dial, knobs, back, speaker, OPT, wavechange switch, cabinet, frame aerial, the shoddy mains socket (the male plug is fixed on the rear apron of the chassis - the socket (female) often wrongly called the 'plug' is on the mains lead).
Regards, David.
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BVWS Member.
G-QRP Club Member 1339.
'I'm in my own little world, but I'm happy, and they know me here'
