09-16-2017, 09:05 PM
I added the 71A very shortly after. I posted a sequel to the story on Facebook which I'll paste here:
"A small sequel to the story: It wasn't long before I obtained a replacement 71A and cheap. Toronto had an amazing "radio row" back then. In those days it was no big deal for a 13 year old to take the bus from the 'burbs and hang out downtown on a Saturday. This one place on the row had a huge bin of 'obsolete' tubes for 25 cents each. My limited knowledge of antique tubes at the time was that any tube with two digits was gold, so I passed on the 2A3's, 6A3's, etc. (moan!!) and picked up about 20 tubes including a 71A."
I was a 13 year old newbie at the time and so the term 'recapping' did not exist. One did whatever it took to get the thing working. I don't really know why, but I've kept the radio in storage all of these long years without working on it at all. I suppose one day I should throw in some new filter caps and fire it up.
"A small sequel to the story: It wasn't long before I obtained a replacement 71A and cheap. Toronto had an amazing "radio row" back then. In those days it was no big deal for a 13 year old to take the bus from the 'burbs and hang out downtown on a Saturday. This one place on the row had a huge bin of 'obsolete' tubes for 25 cents each. My limited knowledge of antique tubes at the time was that any tube with two digits was gold, so I passed on the 2A3's, 6A3's, etc. (moan!!) and picked up about 20 tubes including a 71A."
I was a 13 year old newbie at the time and so the term 'recapping' did not exist. One did whatever it took to get the thing working. I don't really know why, but I've kept the radio in storage all of these long years without working on it at all. I suppose one day I should throw in some new filter caps and fire it up.
