Antique Tube Testers Oct 1, 2009 12:00 PM, by Erin Shipps, associate editor Sign Off, Oct 2009 Do you remember? Supreme 85C In August we ran a few photos of Steve Johnson’s excellent collection of ...

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Chris Deneau is the owner of Renovated Radios in Macomb, Mich., which specializes in making reproduction parts for old radios. “In my opinion, an antique radio is any radio powered with vacuum tubes, ...

[Mr. Carlson] has an old-style 1940-era radio tube tester, the kind that used to inhabit grocery and drug stores. It is in amazing condition and he was kind enough to tear it down for us. The teste… ...

Years of neglect and dust covered this vintage radio, but careful restoration reveals its hidden charm once again. Components such as tubes, capacitors, and wiring undergo thorough cleaning and ...

Bennie Summers, who along with wife Olivia owns Summertyme Vintage Radio Repair in the Maumee Antique Mall, is one of only a handful of repairment in the nation who still works on tube radios of ...

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 ...

Tsukii has been amassing vacuum tubes for 50 years. He’s particularly proud of his B- and BH-model rectifier tubes, developed for early radio. A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star ...

Thus, every radio tube must be supplied with two different voltages (A and B), and most will need three (A, B, and C). The A voltage heats the filament to release electrons.

(Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut, 115 Pierson Lane, Windsor, CT) The home of the largest collection of early radios in the U.S. Founded in 1990 by John Ellsworth, the Radio ...