07-05-2017, 08:35 PM
I bought this Northern Electric tombstone radio about three weeks ago and now it is all finished.
I found that the transformer had a shorted secondary, so I used a new one I had bought for my rogers 10-12 .
then I found that the choke somehow got a hole in it and about 20 wires were broke. I got another one from a good friend of mine and after all that work, the radio plays very well.
It does not have a dial but rather a backlighted dial that rotates as you turn the knob. For a different band, a different color rotates around
The cabinet took the regular amount of work , stripping ,staining and toning.
Now it is a keeper.
Dan in Calgary. PS here is a link to the interview that I gave to the CBC .
It is about 5 minutes long.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/programs/homestretch/people-who-fix-things-old-radios-1.4192174
I found that the transformer had a shorted secondary, so I used a new one I had bought for my rogers 10-12 .
then I found that the choke somehow got a hole in it and about 20 wires were broke. I got another one from a good friend of mine and after all that work, the radio plays very well.
It does not have a dial but rather a backlighted dial that rotates as you turn the knob. For a different band, a different color rotates around
The cabinet took the regular amount of work , stripping ,staining and toning.
Now it is a keeper.
Dan in Calgary. PS here is a link to the interview that I gave to the CBC .
It is about 5 minutes long.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/programs/homestretch/people-who-fix-things-old-radios-1.4192174
Living in Calgary Alberta
