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12-17-2016, 07:12 PM
So I have been so busy with life that I have not touched a radio chassis in months...

  This week I had free time and a few radios I wanted to display in the house.... I finished 3 radios this week!!!

The first is a real neat but cheapo GE 682 clock radio that splits into a separate clock and a portable radio run on batteries! I redid the 4 tube chassis just fine but I screwed up the Selenium rectifier replacements  Icon_redface
After 2 hours on the phone with Terry, It came to life and it is actually really sensitive ... It had 2 800uF ecaps in it!!
Plus 3 others.. 5 Ecaps in one little radio... I got burned twice but no shocks  Icon_thumbdown  Icon_thumbup

The second radio I got off eBay recently for a steal... I love hidden compartment items and this Sentinel 238-V is a stack of books on the outside! IT was sold untested because it uses a cheater cord and he did not have it. I recapped it, changed 2 resistors, and it came to life... The cabinet is in real nice condition so I only wiped off the crud with GoJo...
 No burns or shocks  Icon_thumbup Icon_thumbup

  The last one I just finished tonight.. This was from our trip to Skips friends house. I bought 2 Emerson BF-207's in extremely gross but undamaged cabinets... I took the first cabinet and scrubbed it to death to get all the sticky out of the grooves and then waxed it. I recapped the chassis all by myself and it works pretty nice. I got a little stuck with the Ecap cans pos and neg but figured it out by actually understanding that they were chassis ground... I also has some micamold paper caps and found a website to read them.. There is so much interference in my shop and house that I have to use an extension cord and test it in the yard...  Icon_crazy
No shocks or burns  Icon_thumbup Icon_thumbup





  


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12-17-2016, 07:13 PM
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12-17-2016, 07:17 PM
way to go kirk Icon_clap Icon_clap
like that clock/radio Icon_thumbup

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12-17-2016, 07:35 PM
Great job. Though these are easy - not crowded at all compared to that one where Terry fixed the speaker wires. That was a freakin nitemare.
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12-17-2016, 10:04 PM
VERY, Very, Nice workmanship
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12-17-2016, 11:31 PM
I sure do like the Emerson, I have a thing for bakelite sets with a complete bakelite back.

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12-18-2016, 09:55 AM
I'll second that the Emersons in bakelite are very nice.
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12-18-2016, 10:38 AM
I like Emerson with boobs. Kirk, do you have any? (I mean, the Emersons)
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12-18-2016, 12:34 PM
Thanks guys,

You're a boob Mikie....
No Mae West's sorry...

I also like the Emerson's with the front and back. I had the clockette but got rid of it last year... That one had a curtain burner on it. Weird that these don't have RLC's...
Joe had a 3rd one but the back was missing on it... I am hoping to give one to my friend but I want to see how he likes it first..
I should probably see if the other one is ok before I give away a restored one.... It has the cord cut and there are things rattling around inside... I'll check it out tonight....

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12-18-2016, 12:58 PM
(12-18-2016, 12:34 PM)OldRestorer Wrote:  Thanks guys,
 
You're a boob Mikie....
No Mae West's sorry...

 I also like the Emerson's with the front and back. I had the clockette but got rid of it last year... That one had a curtain burner on it. Weird that these don't have RLC's...
 Joe had a 3rd one but the back was missing on it... I am hoping to give one to my friend but I want to see how he likes it first..
I should probably see if the other one is ok before I give away a restored one.... It has the cord cut and there are things rattling around inside... I'll check it out tonight....

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< Weird that these don't have RLC's...
These have a bigger chassis/more toobs and newer 150ma heaters. The Clockette is a 4 toob TRF set w/3ooma heaters.
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Now I think I've got!

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12-18-2016, 11:00 PM
Hmmmm, 
Thanks Terry.....

I finished the other Emerson tonight (found a hairline crack on the back side top Icon_sad ) I even got my Halli TW-25 done.. I needed a little guidance for the Selenium rectifier... 

  Next up is my RCA 5Q5.... Looks really simple but I am too tired to do a 3rd radio tonight...


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12-19-2016, 10:48 AM
Good job Kirk!  My favorite is the book radio... great find!
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12-19-2016, 11:56 AM
It was!
$49.99 shipped off Ebay...
I really want the upright stack too....
One is RCA and another is GE...
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12-20-2016, 09:45 AM
Your buddy akachuck has a pretty cool Sentinel set on sale but they're a little rough.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-SENTINEL...SwOVpXUyZE

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I was thinking, if I specialized in book radios I could house my entire collection on one or two book cases Icon_crazy
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12-20-2016, 12:02 PM
Yeah, I dont like the damage... I am surprised no one got it though...
It is probably because the radio is so plain and ugly...

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