Recent content by Johnny B

Oh boy! It's the thread that just won't die! If it pleases the mods, I'd like to post developments and whatnot to these so people can follow along the rebuilding process. Right now I'm dividing time between 3 radios and fooling around with the others as time warrants. I want to have these...

Unfortunately those Predictas don't belong to me; they're part of a different stock room and unfortunately they are going to die in there. The guy won't sell them and has nowhere to put them (they've been there for a few years now). That's why I like to do this; so things like that don't happen...

Alright! Just got back from the storage locker. It was a lot bigger than I remembered. I took lots of pictures! Here's the storage room after I removed a dozen radios. You can't tell by the pictures maybe but it is JAM PACKED with stuff. A lot of these are total writeoffs- never going to be...

just gon bump dis i saw a lot of interest in the original thread so im curious as to what the others think (if they even saw this at all)

Thanks for the kind words everyone. Yes, these are gutted radio shells I bought from a man who inherited about a hundred of them out of a collection which had been picked over for sets/parts and then the rest just sort of dumped. Some are in better condition than others. Some are more whole...

So! I've managed to ACTUALLY FINISH a radio. After the first two... failures... I took this lovely little tabletop home to work on. It's a General Electric TA100, manufactured, by the looks of it, sometime around the mid fifties to early sixties. It's straddling the razor edge between Mid...

I'm just about to go get my grad photos done. They insist you wear at the minimum a shirt and tie or else they won't seat you

coming someday SOMEDAY SOMEDAY!!!! __________________________ Get ready to hold on to your hats lest they fly off with the force of 10 gale storms and collide with other flying hats causing TOTAL NUCLEAR MELTDOWN!!! Rent a welder and get your jaw WIRED SHUT with the heaviest chain YOU...

Hey all I'm going to be checking out the remainder of this guy's collection this tuesday so keep an eye on this thread for more radios. I will be selling them for prices SO LOW you'll think you were buying sheets of FILTHY PAPER- prices SO LOW they'll drill STRAIGHT THROUGH the earth's core...

Thanks for your kind words Skeet. I've got a 30s wood tabletop special in mind just for you

The experiment was a failure :( I have learned a few things this weekend. Namely, radio restoration is both a) very difficult, b) very time consuming and c) very expensive I worked on my two little radios trying to do my best with them but the more I worked on them the more it was...

One can be made with any sort of output jack as long as I had access to them and spliced them over the 3.5mm jack most speakers use

Silver like chrome mirror silver, or just sparkly gray? I found this on the internet as an art deco colour pallette; I like these colours: Anyway the resin has set and the case now looks like this: which doesn't look all that hot but once it's filed, sanded, patched, primed and...

Right now the bakelite case has been filled with fibreglass resin to fill in the cracks and the missing piece so i'll get some pictures once that has set an interesting side note, the phone number listed on the wood case from the shop that sold it is "138". Someone here can probably figure...