![]() You can test that all important power transformer before buying a radio. A must is service information from "Rider" or "Sams." I use the following test instruments: an analog volt ohmmeter, a signal generator, a simple signal tracer, a signal injector pen, a resistor/capacitor substitution box, a good tube checker, contact cleaner, and plenty of alligator clip test leads to substitute other parts. Using a time proven technique, I find that 99 percent of the radios will work like new, cosmetics aside. Every radio is suspect now of having one or more defects beyond the obvious. Over the years I have compiled a list of things that take the BARK out of those DOGS. The harsh climate here in Florida seems to be accelerating multiple radio problems making them all DOGS! Heat, humidity and time have begun to have some strange effects on the radios that cross my workbench. Now, 50 years later, that theory is no longer true. ![]() As I learned more about radio, it seemed clear that most nonplaying radios had only one bad part. A seller might just put such sets in a dark corner, take his loss, and forget them until a fellow collector discovers them years later.įifty years ago, I began tinkering with radios, adjusting those little screws that made them work better on certain stations. ![]() Too many sets that I buy to work on have so many things wrong with them that they must have been nonworking from the start."Īfter thinking over what George had said, I concluded it did have a basis in reality. ![]() George said, "I know that some radios that I have worked on were shipped from the factory in nonworking condition. My friend George and I were talking about radios that refuse to work properly. If a radio still doesn't work after you've corrected the obvious problems, you have a "dog" on your hands and may want to try some of Fred's solutions. Using an apt metaphor, Fred Geer tackles those "dogs" in everyone's collection, offering suggestions to counter subtle problems he has met along his 50-year journey in radio. Antique Radio Classified: Restoration Topics aug 98 geer ![]()
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