11-13-2018, 08:28 PM
Greetings from the Valley of the Sun!
I was given a old Philco Police Broadcaster Model #42-335. According to everything i have found it was made then hit the shelves around June 1941. It kind of gives me pause that my new radio could have been on when FDR gave the speech on December 8th declaring war on Japan. Or maybe some old baseball games when records fell by players who didn't live better through chemistry. lol. Anyway. I am here because I would love to restore it. It get's power, however what iknow as a tuner, the dial that goes left to right and back looking for stations. The string either is stripped or doesn't work. The knob does turn. So, my real problem is that I am a big dumb animal. I either don't know anything about electronics or I lack the correct vocabulary of what I really need. In the end, I would love to get this back into an every day use and possibly some direction on the abc's of old radios, what the parts are really called and maybe some electronics 101. I'd appreciate any help I can get here. Thanks!
I was given a old Philco Police Broadcaster Model #42-335. According to everything i have found it was made then hit the shelves around June 1941. It kind of gives me pause that my new radio could have been on when FDR gave the speech on December 8th declaring war on Japan. Or maybe some old baseball games when records fell by players who didn't live better through chemistry. lol. Anyway. I am here because I would love to restore it. It get's power, however what iknow as a tuner, the dial that goes left to right and back looking for stations. The string either is stripped or doesn't work. The knob does turn. So, my real problem is that I am a big dumb animal. I either don't know anything about electronics or I lack the correct vocabulary of what I really need. In the end, I would love to get this back into an every day use and possibly some direction on the abc's of old radios, what the parts are really called and maybe some electronics 101. I'd appreciate any help I can get here. Thanks!
