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Saw this radio yesterday at an antique shop. It was marked down to $20- (50% off). Went back today and talked the dealer down to $10-. I know it looks like a piece of junk, especially with the broken dial glass and various missing components but I think Santa might be bringing me an HVLP gun this year so I figure this will be a good set to try it out on
. Plus, I've never worked on a set that had FM so I figured I'd cut my teeth on this one. Measures 21.3" x 14.4" x 8.9". Tough part is finding information on it. Someone on the other site sent me the schematic but I see on radiomuseum.org that there are several service pages:
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/aeg_3064wu_3064_wu.html
It costs $25- just to sign up there so you can download the schematics which is more than what I paid for the radio so if anyone has a copy of these please send me a PM.
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Your typical 1950s German radio, or Soviet too for that matter (wer copied from German).
They are decent performers for a tabletops.
Though some (some of Grundigs, TF and Philipses ) larger ones sound very good.
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Yes, I would try to bum a schematic for that thing too, or even buy a folder from someone, it's still cheaper then joining radiomuuuseum. Plus that $25 would be much better spent towards a repro dial glass. AEG was the German equivalent of General Electric so there must be some info on it. The tubes look like nine pin types so they are likely not too hard to find, even American made equivalents.
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Yes these 50s radios were only using miniature tubes and those are not really expensive, I can bet you 90% chance there are ECC83 in amps and EL84 in the output. In soviet radios it was almost universal solution.
And also these 50s radios may not necessarily need full recapping only needing the electrolytics changed (well, this is an inherent problem with the electrolytics), and other than that possibly cleaning the volume/tone control pots. Well, of course things like cleaning switches and refitting the dial cord, but those are not electrical.
What I am driving at, if the radio did not smoke you might not need the sch at all.
Last thing, these radios often used the selenium pack rectifiers which I saw sold even in 80s in stores as spare parts. Those can be replaced with diode bridges and meybe some resistances to compensate for selenium bridge losses.
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You might try these folks. They are the UK version our Antique Radio Forums.
http://www.vintage-radio.com/index.html
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Thanks Brenda, I'll check them out.
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I think that there may also be some German and Dutch sites where you find schematics for free, but 1 pound 99 pence is acceptable if you have to spend it.
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Half a pound of tuppenny rice, half a pound of treacle....
Buy a schematic and make it nice....
Pop! Goes the German Radio.
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Here is one page that has some AEG sets listed, I don't see a 3064 but there may be one similar.
http://www.rsp-italy.it/Electronics/Radi.../index.htm
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Thanks Arran, I'll send them an e-mail and see if they can help with my model.
