12-08-2015, 06:41 PM
I recently worked on a friend's console, Crosley 03CA. She has owned it for many years and it finally quit playing. She asked me to see if I could help it. It belonged to her grandmother and she remembered it playing at grandma's house and sounding like a jukebox.
After re-capping, replacing bad tubes, and a few resistors, I could see why she thought it sounded good. It's not a WLW, but it's above average for 1940ish radios.
It has a BEAUTIFUL dial and dial glass; I would say perfect, especially after nearly 75 years. Cosmetically, the cabinet is about an 8 out of 10, original finish, but knobs which are badly warped and mis-shapened, and one push button on the presets is missing. However, I found a website that has reproductions should she wish to replace them.
All the bands worked without any tinkering...a very nice specimen. Almost wish I could have kept it, but that would mean getting rid of one of my consoles---which would be hard to do.
After re-capping, replacing bad tubes, and a few resistors, I could see why she thought it sounded good. It's not a WLW, but it's above average for 1940ish radios.
It has a BEAUTIFUL dial and dial glass; I would say perfect, especially after nearly 75 years. Cosmetically, the cabinet is about an 8 out of 10, original finish, but knobs which are badly warped and mis-shapened, and one push button on the presets is missing. However, I found a website that has reproductions should she wish to replace them.
All the bands worked without any tinkering...a very nice specimen. Almost wish I could have kept it, but that would mean getting rid of one of my consoles---which would be hard to do.
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