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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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… ...

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 ...

I pulled all the tubes, brought them to Radio Shack and tested them in their tube tester. Incredibly enough, they had replacements for all of the dead tubes, in stock, right there in the store.

Question: I have a 1930s Delco wood cabinet radio that belonged to my mother's parents. It works well enough to pick up local stations, but the sound quality is poor. It needs new tubes and power ...

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 ...

The six-square-block area in lower Manhattan became a bazaar of tubes, knobs, hi-fi equipment and antenna kits. It was the largest collection of radio and electronics stores in the world. Radio ...

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.