Antique radio buffs can still get their hands on the replacement parts needed to bring these wonderful relics of ... most radio tubes are cheaper now than in 1940 and 1950," says the 62 ...

Antique radios can be functional statement pieces, ... Tubes are usually not what caused the radio to be put out of service. The quickest way to find bad resistors is to probe the tube pin voltages.

A Zenith Radio before a visit to the Mumford Restoration shop in Raleigh, N.C. Use it. A restored antique radio is like a restored antique car. It needs to be used (carefully) and maintained to keep ...

Dear Harry: I am in the process of restoring an RCA console radio, Model TZ-56, circa 1939. We moved into my uncle’s house in 1970. The radio played at that time. We replaced the cord, and all ...

I inherited my grandpa’s old console radio because no one else wanted it. It hadn’t worked for decades. It was slightly beat-up, and somewhat large and heavy. Think NFL player. Well, th… ...

First, the antique Supreme 85C tube tester is the Great Granddaddy of all corner drug store tube testers. This was made for radio shops front counters. It’s an early Supreme 85C Tube Tester designed ...

ARCADIA – Behind a nondescript industrial storefront, tucked incongruously amid Arcadia’s sea of strip malls and tract housing, John Pomazi is stockpiling history. The antique radio repairman ...

Vintage radios can be found at garage sales, estate sales, hamfests, antique shops, antique radio swap meets, and Ebay. Millions of radios have been manufactured. People often give them away.

Members of the California Historical Radio Society tinker with old AM/FM radios at the society's building in Alameda on February 3, 2018. (Alyssa Jeong Perry/KQED) Old radios and transmitters sit on a ...

Antique radio repair man Paul Colosimo has spent the past 98 years humming along to his own tune. Like music, he has seen many things evolve, including the radio. "The whole world has changed." ...

Able Auctions has been getting the word out to radio collectors about the sale by contacting antique-radio groups across Canada. The viewing is Friday, the auction is Saturday at 9:30 a.m.