The Conservative Cave
Interests => Around the House & In the Garage => Topic started by: compaqxp on July 12, 2013, 08:51:40 AM
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I'm sure some of you will enjoy this, so I figured I'd make a topic in what seems like forever.
I'm got a bunch of hobbies, but the things I enjoy the most are working on old radios and TVs
as they're fun to mess around with and get working. They're also very nice to use. The radios are
almost always really simple to get working, but the TV's pose a bigger challenge (to me at least).
I have one that I'm trying to get it's HV section working correctly at the moment, without much luck.
This (http://imgur.com/nTyEgpb) is a 1954/5 Philips R-7520 chassis I'm working on at
the moment. It's been a major pain, but it's slowly coming back to life. And this (http://imgur.com/FS9Z5wZ)
is a Philco radio from 1939 that I'm working on. I should have all the parts in the mail
by next week and it'll be all good then. Right now I'm working on the cabinet while I wait.
This (http://imgur.com/a/IcNfA) is a Marconi 158 from around 1938 that is fully done. It's been
fully restored electrically and I've done some minor work to the cabinet (it was mostly fine).
I plugged it in last night with a long antenna and was easily about to pick up stations from all
around the world on SW.
I'll post some pictures of other's I've done latter when I get the chance (maybe I'll post a video of one working?).
Just thought I'd show you folks in case anyone is interested or if any of you do the same.
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This (http://imgur.com/a/16CAK) is an RCA M48 (I think? Can't recall), that I got for something like 5$ a few years ago.
I've only just gotten to it and I wish I'd done so sooner. The cabinet was all but falling apart
until yesterday when I started working on it. I've had to re-glue almost every joint on it,
but it's now much stronger then it was and I can start to fix the finish. The chassis is okay and
it does work, but running one of these on old caps is a terrible idea. It'll be done by the end of summer.
This one (http://imgur.com/a/7iOgk)...well I don't know much about it. It's a Monitor Radio MR-10 and
tunes much higher then a normal FM radio. It might as well be a sort of early scanner. The only station I can get
is the local Environment Canada weather broadcasts on 162.550MHZ. Either way I love how it's designed.
I've got tons more that are either done or in progress, but I won't bore you all with that :p
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The Marconi is beautiful.
I never heard of a Monitor Radio, but it looks cool!
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I've got the first TV I ever saw.....It's out in the shed and I can't remember exactly what it is but I think it's a Philco. It has a round TV screen that folds out of the cabinet.
When I was a kid the neighbor worked on radios. He had some old ones that had vaccum tubes bigger than a quart jar.
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Here's (http://imgur.com/a/7ImM4) some random stuff that is mostly future work. The last image is the one Philco's cabinet
that I have to do some more work to.
I've got the first TV I ever saw.....It's out in the shed and I can't remember exactly what it is but I think it's a Philco. It has a round TV screen that folds out of the cabinet.
When I was a kid the neighbor worked on radios. He had some old ones that had vaccum tubes bigger than a quart jar.
Whatever you do don't get rid of it or part it out. Some of those early roundie sets bring in good money and people love to restore them.
I know some of the early tubes were big, but I don't really know what a quart is so I can't get a mental image. (I searched it up and it's about 1 liter, no clue what tube would be so big)
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My Ford has an old Philco radio, but the volume shaft and knob are missing. I have a feeling I'm going to have to replace the entire potentiometer, but I haven't taken it apart to find out.
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My Ford has an old Philco radio, but the volume shaft and knob are missing. I have a feeling I'm going to have to replace the entire potentiometer, but I haven't taken it apart to find out.
How's the vibrator? I remember replacing those on my 1954 Mercury.
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:???: I haven't found it.
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:???: I haven't found it.
It's usually a rather large metal thing in a cylindrical shape.
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I know some of the early tubes were big, but I don't really know what a quart is so I can't get a mental image. (I searched it up and it's about 1 liter, no clue what tube would be so big)
These were some real old radios even by 1955 standards. Some were battery operated and had marine band, ship to shore and other frequencies you could tune in on. They were all in huge cabinets.
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Hm, shoulda kept my '38 Oldsmobile. It had a factory radio in it that worked when I bought the car in '54.........(http://www.conservativecave.com/Smileys/default/banghead.gif)
When I was a kid, Dad had a Zenith console that needed a 200' antenna he would string around the roof. Dunno what ever happened to it. It was the one with SW, "magic eye tuner", and a 12" paper cone speaker. Sounded awesome.
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I will be posting all this on the "American Pickers" website.
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Any knowledge of "restomod" TVs/ appliances? I've got an old cherry Admiral TV out in the garage that I'd like to put newer guts into.