17-03-2016, 08:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 17-03-2016, 09:04 AM by Radio Fixer.)
It maybe for you Trevor but there are so many radios out there, complete with loads of interest at low prices, I wouldn't bother. For me it would be sell the chassis on or wait for a bad chassis radio with a reasonable cabinet.
The last 3 radios I bought with masses of interest cost £70, £30 and £42. The first has the electronics finished but the cabinet didn't turn out well so that's a redo this summer if we get any decent weather. The other 2 are waiting collection.
Some of my early days cabinets aren't finished the way they were originally but on some I had no choice them being badly damaged before they found me. Most of those have found new homes and it pleases me that they are gone.
I try to leave items as original as possible, that includes re-stuffing and having items rewound or doing it myself if possible with my crude winder. Am I fussey? Yes! its got that way. A case in point is a Gecophone Stork speaker that has never been played since restoring it. It had a perfectly good driver (speaker) in there but it wasn't the right one. Kept looking and eventually found another with a ruined cabinet but with a good driver. Managed to buy that and swapped over and fitted a more appropriate grill cloth. Its never been played since either but I'm really happy with it and can look at it with pleasure
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As the great Jeff. D. Nuttall once said its good to be a little mad in the old radio game .
Gary
The last 3 radios I bought with masses of interest cost £70, £30 and £42. The first has the electronics finished but the cabinet didn't turn out well so that's a redo this summer if we get any decent weather. The other 2 are waiting collection.
Some of my early days cabinets aren't finished the way they were originally but on some I had no choice them being badly damaged before they found me. Most of those have found new homes and it pleases me that they are gone.
I try to leave items as original as possible, that includes re-stuffing and having items rewound or doing it myself if possible with my crude winder. Am I fussey? Yes! its got that way. A case in point is a Gecophone Stork speaker that has never been played since restoring it. It had a perfectly good driver (speaker) in there but it wasn't the right one. Kept looking and eventually found another with a ruined cabinet but with a good driver. Managed to buy that and swapped over and fitted a more appropriate grill cloth. Its never been played since either but I'm really happy with it and can look at it with pleasure
.As the great Jeff. D. Nuttall once said its good to be a little mad in the old radio game
.Gary
