Found on FB marketplace about 20 minutes away, sitting in the 1962 house it was brought home to new. The house was being turned over to grand daughter, who didn't have room or time after having baby. Her mom helped me load and I asked if she ever had a house party in 70s, when parents were away. Thi...

Welcome to the site! I was hoping to look at the website for your museum and see what radios are there. I work on anything 20s to 70s, preferring Philco radios, mad-men era TVs. My first experiences at RS and LRE was in Berks county PA, 1975. I was hoarding tubes like a squirrel, then using tube tes...

Hi Randy, As the minion, I refer to my 5 YO self-toad-sitting in from of a 19 inch BW Motorola TV in a plain gray metal cabinet Dad bought at EJ Korvette's in Camp Hill pa. before moving to TX, 4 years later moving back to PA and using it in our new house until we got a Zenith color. The Motorola SK...

Now the 1942 model, 42-345.
BTW WGAL was an AM station, now its a TV station, sports talk killed the only two AM in our town, now they are both silent

If there are just a few things I can name that make Philco radios (1928-1948) worthy of restoration, it may be robust coils and transformers, gorgeous sepia-toned tube maps, awesome built-in antennas, thorough service information or the great websites. I recently bought this 48-482 with a table, was...

Yes, Id agree the most fun stuff to work are these classic manufacturers when they all were trying to avoid patent infringements. I don't believe one manufacturer is superior overall such as Zenith, each of the competition had some clever ideas and the market rewarded some of them. To be fair, Zenit...

Many of these "store-branded" consoles were smaller, lighter and generally favored popular styles offered via catalogs with credit terms that helped many folks afford this popular item. I have had one of each in my shop, successfully servicing (restoring operation) them economically. Consi...

Attached is one of the earliest stereo phonograph models, RCA Victor's SHP-9 seen in magazine ad. SHP9- aka twins.jpg RCA Victor introduced a similar setup as the flagship model for 1958. The SHF-1 has twin amplifiers, twin speakers, stereo preamp/tuner yet only the R2R tape machine is stereo . That...

My mom would take the train to stay with relatives and see this show.
John Facenda was a local celebrity who anchored news on WCAU TV
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the Wanamaker store became a Macy's

OK on higher voltages. I've always wondered why people get so distressed about disintegrating rubber insulation. Jut check and make sure it's not contacting anything it shouldn't. Most of the wires are solid-wire, not stranded, so they are self-supporting. I really tight places, go ahead and replac...

I declared always that GE was a good brand to learn on , despite requiring more repairs the parts numbering system AND availability was even better than RCA, who may have used several numbers for the same thing. GE even included schematics and parts lists in a little box on back of TV sets late 70s ...

Thanks for posting your model 134 Windsor. Mine is similarly equipped and has a Webcor changer that I have not worked on yet.

Is the record changer you are looking for the model that has a reject function activated from a button on the control panel?

Last post was long time coming - I do not see much GE beyond cheaper models so, seeing these consoles featured in many postings I couldn't wait to get inside one. Advertised watts were 270 peak :roll: . 135 watts EIA per the artwork, which sounded like 35 watts per channel. Zenith, RCA and Sylvania ...

Of course General Electric low+wide consoles are popular, the style department at GE was legendary. My first player was a 1973 swingmate with the almost those same (???) changers apparently. 1973 portable.jpg I had not yet worked on a GE like this one but it certainly elicited the same response as S...

Had to replace the record spindle, a 45 adapter ring is tell-tale on the platter trim and the spindle had just enough damage to the record drop pawl, a record would not drop, fortunately Anyone know where I can get an operators manual or copy??? I got one from downloads for the Motorola, thought we ...

I credit Magnavox for not changing the familiar player based on price level. RCA and Zenith had basic and studiomatic upgrade types

The bottom of this cabinet is p-board like my 63 Imperial 3ST661, in same price range as this one.

Looking on E-payne, sellers of Magnavox consoles use terms loosely, like "rare". Of the 88 listings that I saw, few tube models and so many 5-knobbers and even cheaper SS models. Prices range from $150 to $5000, not even close to what each is worth, high or low. So, the 6-knob models using...

I just restored the innards of a 1966 Astrosonic 100 "Coronation" for my neighbor, who will be moving soon. It will no longer be dormant in the corner of a finished basement, only looking good. The operators manual is missing, the owner wants one for obvious reasons, this sounds fantastic ...