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Another GE Transistor Radio
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03-23-2018, 01:51 PM
Maybe I'll try the cap discharge trick on that 2N168, can't hurt, though I should probably stop by and get another one of those 50¢ xistors... I was expecting at least $3-$4... 

Those Nashville & plastic radial lead caps usually have small cracks, no doubt electrolyte dried out...  

I have probably 150 xistor radios but maybe only 30% are in very good or better condition... Got a laundry basket full at a auction a few years back, paid maybe $10-$15(auction was mostly tube sets)... There was a 500 something Zenith, a Regency TR-1, Hitachi 666 etc... Not horrid but far from very good... 

I did collect variants of the Toshiba 6P-15, counting the Toshiba have eight different brands incl a Philco, Marconi, RCA Victor LTD, Trancel, Penneys, Norwood & Truetone... The Penneys & Marconi are black, others all various colors, no two same...  The little GE is a fake, is four or five years newer than the Toshiba built units.. All but the Penneys, Trancel & GE are players, none recapped..

Turned on end, three are approx size of a P-806 GE..


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Another GE Transistor Radio - by 35Z5 - 03-21-2018, 02:18 PM
RE: Another GE Transistor Radio - by Jayce - 03-21-2018, 05:26 PM
RE: Another GE Transistor Radio - by Arran - 03-22-2018, 02:27 AM
RE: Another GE Transistor Radio - by Jayce - 03-22-2018, 07:45 PM
RE: Another GE Transistor Radio - by Arran - 03-22-2018, 10:37 PM
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