08-05-2022, 09:54 AM
Conclusions:
Never plug in second hand old stuff without internal examination.
Thick layer of undisturbed dust doesn't mean it wasn't got at.
You need rich customers to restore stuff for others at even a minimum wage.
How many radios do you need anyway?
Got some UK MW stations on it after dark on internal rotatable ferrite. You certainly are not going to rotate the radio.
SW is lively with 2m of wire hung from curtain rail end.
Need to take it apart sometime as centring the shafts on scale holes is wrong, you need to line up glass print to the piano keys.
Issue
Slight mains leakage to external metal work even when off needs investigated. It's a single pole mains switch and single insulated two core mains cable, brown plastic figure-of-eight style as was typical.
Either fit 3 core cable or coded 2 core. Check mains transformer, maybe soak in polyurethane or replace as I have one off an old Philips that might do. Could be leakage on fuse board. The on-off switch looks like a regular toggle type adapted for the piano key mechanism.
Never plug in second hand old stuff without internal examination.
Thick layer of undisturbed dust doesn't mean it wasn't got at.
You need rich customers to restore stuff for others at even a minimum wage.
How many radios do you need anyway?
Got some UK MW stations on it after dark on internal rotatable ferrite. You certainly are not going to rotate the radio.
SW is lively with 2m of wire hung from curtain rail end.
Need to take it apart sometime as centring the shafts on scale holes is wrong, you need to line up glass print to the piano keys.
Issue
Slight mains leakage to external metal work even when off needs investigated. It's a single pole mains switch and single insulated two core mains cable, brown plastic figure-of-eight style as was typical.
Either fit 3 core cable or coded 2 core. Check mains transformer, maybe soak in polyurethane or replace as I have one off an old Philips that might do. Could be leakage on fuse board. The on-off switch looks like a regular toggle type adapted for the piano key mechanism.
