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Restored Antique Radios FS
Restored Antique Radios FS
http://www.a383ina68.addr.com/radiorest/main.htm NEW WEBSITE!!! Just be sure to click on the "Sets for Purchase" button on the right to view the sets! These investment quality Fully Restored radios will give you the advantage of a set that has indeed been RESTORED, and not simply fixed, repaired, spiffed up, or outsourced to another servicer or refinisher for work. I have 31 years of experience in Antique Radio restoration and combine that with my full time day job of MRI coil and system development and expertise in Failure analysis to produce a restoration that has had detailed attention given to each part of the radio, and not just a simple gutting of the electronics or recapping of the chassis. Each questionable part is replaced, wiring is examined, all tubes are tested and replaced if necessary, mechanical assemblies are disassembled, cleaned, relubed and aligned. Each set also gets a new powercord that is grounded or polarized and an AC line fuse is added if not already equipped. Cabinets get detailed veneer repair and replacement if necessary from an extensive inventory of vintage veneer, dial bezels are restored, each knob is refinished or detail cleaned, Photofinish is recreated if necessary and 7 coats of hand rubbed finish are applied. The result is stunning and gives the purchaser a set that will be around and working for many, many, years to come. Please visit the above website for even more info about me and my restorations. My Restorations are just what you're looking for if you want a set that looks and works as new. These are completely redone, not only part of the cabinet is refinished and another part left cobbled up, the entire unit is restored. These restorations are not simple "Recappings with a new power cord" I tend to every part of the chassis that needs attention, cleaning and relubing mechanical parts, rebuilding of dial assemblies, detailed refinishing or cleaning of knobs and bezels and any specific needs of a particular chassis. My sets are not "over restored", I don't rip every component and wire from the chassis and replace it just because its old, these sets are preserved in as much of their original state as possible to keep them reliable and safe. 30 years of doing antique radio restoration goes into knowing just what needs to be done and just how it should be done when I restore one. Thanks!! Keith Park |
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On Nov 26, 3:46*am, "Keith Park" wrote:
Restored Antique Radios FS http://www.a383ina68.addr.com/radiorest/main.htm NEW WEBSITE!!! Just be sure to click on the "Sets for Purchase" button on the right to view the sets! These investment quality Fully Restored radios will give you the advantage of a set that has indeed been RESTORED, and not simply fixed, repaired, spiffed up, or outsourced to another servicer or refinisher for work. I have 31 years of experience in Antique Radio restoration and combine that with my full time day job of MRI coil and system development and expertise in Failure analysis to *produce a restoration that has had *detailed attention given to each part of the radio, and not just a simple gutting of the electronics or recapping of the chassis. * * * * * Each questionable part is replaced, wiring is examined, all tubes are tested and replaced if necessary, mechanical assemblies are disassembled, cleaned, relubed and aligned. *Each set also gets a new powercord that is grounded or polarized and an AC line fuse is added if not already equipped. * * * * * Cabinets get detailed veneer repair and replacement if necessary from an extensive inventory of vintage veneer, dial bezels are restored, each knob is refinished or detail cleaned, Photofinish is recreated if necessary and 7 coats of hand rubbed finish are applied. *The result is stunning and gives the purchaser a set that will be around and working for many, many, years to come. Please visit the above website for even more info about me and my restorations. My Restorations are just what you're looking for if you want a set that looks and works as new. *These are completely redone, not only part of the cabinet is refinished and another part left cobbled up, the entire unit is restored. *These restorations are not simple "Recappings with a new power cord" I tend to every part of the chassis that needs attention, cleaning and relubing mechanical parts, rebuilding of dial assemblies, detailed refinishing or cleaning of knobs and bezels and any specific needs of a particular chassis. My sets are not "over restored", I don't rip every component and wire from the chassis and replace it just because its old, these sets are preserved in as much of their original state as possible to keep them reliable and safe. *30 years of doing antique radio restoration goes into knowing just what needs to be done and just how it should be done when I restore one. Thanks!! Keith Park Good luck trying to advertise your skills here but I doubt you'll ever get sales here because frankly, ppl here are mean about everything, and don't like spending a cent. Many old AM radios are worth restoring, and I do maybe 3 a year made between 1935 and 1965. The value of them is valued most by younger relatives, usually women, of a previous owner, a grandma, or granpa they once loved, so the old set is a link to the past which a minority of people think is worth paying for. If restored with the original electronics and extremely difficult to get 1935 tubes, most are pretty awful sounding, and fall well below modern expectations. So I have no qualms stripping all the ancient audio amp crap and tube rectifier and installing a completely new tube line up consisting of 12AU7 AF detector and AVC generator using two Ge diodes, 12AU7 tone control stage with genuine boost and cut to treble above 2kHz, 12AT7 or 12AX7 input triode plus EL34 in triode for the audio amp with 12dB global NFB, and maybe I replace the crummy old 10" speaker and its field coil and maybe I add a dome tweeter. The resulting low distortion 4 Watt triode amp does a lot better with the less sensitive lower distortion modern speakers. Concentric car audio speakers are quite good, but not much around, and one sometimes has to use a modern made 10" hi-fi speaker with permanent magnet, and mount a tweeter in the middle on aluminium straps, so an additional hole in front woodwork for treble does not need to be cut out. OPTs are routinely re-wound, and given better bass/treble performance. Sound in a floor stander which has effectively is an open baffle design is usually much improved, and listenable without drunk first. I also add sets of RCA terminals to allow connection of LR channels from stuff like i-pods, AM/FM tuners, TTs with inpuilt phono amps, Digital Radio, TV sound, etc, or many other apps so that the old ancient radio won't gather dust after ppl discover that listening to AM radio as broadcast is like eating a **** sandwich, leaving bad vibes to the ears, and a completely bored spirit. Its only mono sound, ie, combined L&R channels, but that's fine for a kitchen, and sound IS GOOD, and ppl are delighted. I'm careful with the timber though, because unlike modern junk that has ZERO beauty to admire forever, old radios sometimes have excellent beauty, and some might say its like having a really nice statue of Mae West or Marilyn Monroe in the loungeroom. Well, blokes might find that to be so, but wives would not find sheila statues tolerable, but french polished wooden things are OK to most men and women at ease with beauty from the past, so they continue to grace some homes. Its very difficult to restore timber work to how it may have been made and finished bearing in mind the finish has often been lacqure sprayed on, and some areas of the top have had areas of the thin veneer sandpapered down to remove a deep stain, with goodness knows what sort of varnish used to re-finish it. Often what is really needed is to place new sheets of veneer on, and then the work becomes more difficult, requiring more practised skills, and thus becomes the work of furniture restorers and they seem always to charge fees like wonded bulls. Most radios I have done are really labours of love, and many restorations take 120 hours, maybe the equivalent of 3 weeks full time. Average weekly earnings in Oz have reached $1,200 a week, and who would pay $3,600 to fix up a radio? I'm lucky if I get $600. There is a huge difference in old radios being restored. Some are extravagent statements of opulence and style of a bygone age, ie, they represent the top echelon of putting on the agony and style of 1935. Maybe originally funded by a missus removing the winnings from a drunk sleeping husband's wallet after he had the one good day at the races. She rushes to the store to spend on something that won't blow away. But many old sets I see were budget radios placed in simple large floor standing cabinets with a complete absense of any styling, the absolute bare minimum, with a small horrid dial the same as used in a mantle set. These of course were much cheaper and affordable by wives of drunk coal miners or bricklayers, but they often take the same amount of work to restore, and you end up with something that could never be the equivalent of a statue of a former bueaty queen or film star. Patrick Turner. |
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Restored Antique Radios FS
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