06-05-2015, 05:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-05-2015, 05:26 PM by Radio Fixer.)
Yes! Black dial Zeniths go for top money but you tell me how you get hold of one in the first place unrestored (or un- recently bodged) without paying a fortune so I don't see how "you can make some cash doing what you enjoy". Just the same with all or most of the round Ekco's, a little more reasonable than years ago possibly with the exception of the A22.
Anyway, I would suggest you look elsewhere for a hobby if you want to "make some cash doing what you enjoy". There are far too many radios for most to ever be worth the cost of whatever you do to them. For me its just about the enjoyment of restoring and learning how they were made and for most I don't intend to sell anyway. Besides they got me started in electronics and I had a great career working through more technologies than anyone is likely to ever do again.
The best way is to remember the motto "quality more than quantity". Yes! I'm sure many of us buy lots of cheap sets when we get started, I did even after a lifetime in electronics, but they were a learning curve (as I hadn't been inside a radio for 40 odd years) for so no harm done. All gone now and I try only to buy radios that to me are quality (that wont be the same as for others, for example I don't have or want a round Ekco).
As to black dial Zeniths I had two but sold them on without restoring them. One I really regret, only a 5 valve 'Supie' but it was a 'looker'. It had cabinet issues that at the time I hadn't mastered. Now it would be a piece of cake but thats hindsight for you and just learning. I would post a pic but that would just make me feel the pain again.
Gary
Anyway, I would suggest you look elsewhere for a hobby if you want to "make some cash doing what you enjoy". There are far too many radios for most to ever be worth the cost of whatever you do to them. For me its just about the enjoyment of restoring and learning how they were made and for most I don't intend to sell anyway. Besides they got me started in electronics and I had a great career working through more technologies than anyone is likely to ever do again.
The best way is to remember the motto "quality more than quantity". Yes! I'm sure many of us buy lots of cheap sets when we get started, I did even after a lifetime in electronics, but they were a learning curve (as I hadn't been inside a radio for 40 odd years) for so no harm done. All gone now and I try only to buy radios that to me are quality (that wont be the same as for others, for example I don't have or want a round Ekco).
As to black dial Zeniths I had two but sold them on without restoring them. One I really regret, only a 5 valve 'Supie' but it was a 'looker'. It had cabinet issues that at the time I hadn't mastered. Now it would be a piece of cake but thats hindsight for you and just learning. I would post a pic but that would just make me feel the pain again.
Gary
