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Two small radios from France. Restoration and review.
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Range Switch Block:

   

   
I thought that mica capacitors of this type died out in the 30s, but no, they just moved to France. In general, the zoo of used parts suggests that they were assembled at some point in shops or garages from what was scraped together at a flea market. Even the axes of the switches and potentiometers are sawed off crookedly with a hacksaw with a length discrepancy of almost a centimeter.


Electrolyte restoration:

   

   

The electrolytes in both radios dried out to zero. But they were disassembled, cleaned, refilled and re-filled with mastic or rolled up.
If they are not cut again, they can be considered original.


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