07-26-2026, 03:03 PM
Joseph;
There is definitely a point when there is a law of diminishing returns, I once bought a basement room full of radios, and maybe 1/3 or more were beyond reasonable restoration for one reason or another. Some had major parts missing, or were too hacked up. An AC/DC set with a broken cabinet, no dial, and no knobs was pretty much scrap to me. Another was a radio-phono table top combo unit, with no phono, and the dial glass was peeling, that wasn't worth much even complete, most of them are ugly, awkward, and have a pedestrian five tube radio of one kind or another inside. I always tried to keep ones that were complete, or near complete, and had something special about them.
One in that lot that I intended to do something with was an earlyish AC radio, an RCA Radiola 44, but I will need a parts set to finish it, that chassis is good mechanically, but the cabinet has been badly hacked up, apparently many of these have disintegrating pot metal in the tuner chassis, this one does not.
Regards
Arran
There is definitely a point when there is a law of diminishing returns, I once bought a basement room full of radios, and maybe 1/3 or more were beyond reasonable restoration for one reason or another. Some had major parts missing, or were too hacked up. An AC/DC set with a broken cabinet, no dial, and no knobs was pretty much scrap to me. Another was a radio-phono table top combo unit, with no phono, and the dial glass was peeling, that wasn't worth much even complete, most of them are ugly, awkward, and have a pedestrian five tube radio of one kind or another inside. I always tried to keep ones that were complete, or near complete, and had something special about them.
One in that lot that I intended to do something with was an earlyish AC radio, an RCA Radiola 44, but I will need a parts set to finish it, that chassis is good mechanically, but the cabinet has been badly hacked up, apparently many of these have disintegrating pot metal in the tuner chassis, this one does not.
Regards
Arran
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