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Non Christmas Story radio
#1

https://vancouver.craigslist.ca/van/cbd/...36704.html

This is NOT the radio featured in "A Christmas Story", that was a Canadian Westinghouse 780X, not a 780Y, he even admits this in the fine print, but leaves the click bait out anyhow. Neither of these sets are rare as far as Canadian radios go, it has a 7 tube chassis, RF amplifier tube, single ended output, and a magic eye, so it was a mid priced radio when it was new, which means it was probably the one most people bought.

 I can't understand why this guy won't recap and re-resistor sets like this, early 40s Westinghouse sets are some of the easiest radios to work on, no rubber wire, big spacious chassis, no layers of parts. He will put a new magic eye tube in a set but won't spend $15 on new caps on a set he prices at $400. This is the same guy that claimed a 15 tube RCA set he had couldn't pick up much because it was 20 miles outside of Vancouver. If he spent as much time restoring his sets as he does coming up with lipstick, mascara, and B.S for his ads people would come to him. But maybe it's just as well, then someone else won't have to fix his handiwork later. I think his buddy has posted some ads trying to get $50 each for ST style #46 tubes, that aren't even of the same brand, let alone in matched pairs.
Regards
Arran
#2

Guy sure like to type!!!!

When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!

Terry
#3

Terry;
  I thought I was bad until I saw his ads, complete non sequitur verbal diarrhea. Yes it's nice that you found a radio license belonging to a former owner of the radio, and he was a plumber who came over to Canada on the Carpathia in 1926, what does that have to do with the radio? Did you buy it from him? I suppose his favorite breakfast cereal was corn flakes?
Regards
Arran




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