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Acmefone from 1922
#1

Latest project:

https://www.russoldradios.com/blog/acmefone-from-1922

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#2

It is wonderful.
 I am not into those old sets but I have been starting to like them recently..
Ugh, Another thing to want, Icon_lol


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Times I have been electrocuted in 2021
As of 1/01/2021
AC: 4 DC: 1
Last year: 6
#3

Very nice Russ, like Kirk those older sets are starting to interest me...

John KK4ZLF
Lexington, KY
"illegitimis non carborundum"
#4

Yep. Radios prior to 1924 and all of the battery supers (less RCA) are the ones most radio collectors are looking for   - - - Icon_wtf  - - Don't tell anybody!!

The original tubes are hard to find and may cost more than the radio.

To illustrate this - I just finished (yesterday) a Radiola III and a Balanced Amp. Both are being used as displays for the WD-11s and tipped WD-11s which are worth more than the radios. - - - I suppose that I could just make a stand for the tubes.

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#5

Amazing stuff - I'm fascinated by early radio apparatus, and how the technology changed in the prewar period as it became more common to own a receiver.

I don't hold with furniture that talks.




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