That price sounds like a bargain. My '61 Chevy-- a convertible--came in at $3,500. Two years earlier and 3 steps down the GM hierarchy. And as to AC--I drove down here for the weekend in the Mustang, whose AC hasn't functioned in >30 years. Updating it would require paying arms and legs I don't wish...

I hope it wasn't just surviving the year, but also enjoying it!

Chris Campbell

There are online tutorials in replacing the mica caps in the xfrnrs with small-value caps. Problem is, you need a schematic that shows the value of the originals.

I've gt a GE Musaphonic clock radio that has the symptoms, a bad case of them. Maybe one day I'll give it a try.

Chris Campbell

I have a few commercial R to R tapes and the fidelity can be quite stunning. Make sure you clean the heads and, if you can, demagnetize them. And keep the tapes away from magnets (speakers, various other electronic devices, dabinet latches, etc.).

Chris Campbell

Well, I saw a new Chevy--SUV, of course--while going to work the other day in a very similar shade of blue. I was on the bicycle so I couldn't chase it down. Toyota has a near match, a little bit grayer.

Chris Campbell

Nice buy! The Japanese were building some very nice things in that era.

Chris Campbell

Well, that was fun. I've always enjoyed the highway a night and having a voice coming from far away to keep me company. For quite a few years Art Bell put me to sleep (not, happily, on the highway).

Chris Campbell

It's not storage time for the Chevy just yet, and the weather was better for driving than for sailing so the Chevy became my daily driver over the weekend. I've left the top down all summer, and throw an old cover over the interior to keep the sun off and to catch the shells that the squirrels are d...

Wow, another old guy! Remember that having b'day is better than the alternative.

Chris Campbell

I've listened to most of those, except the western ones. There was real variety on the air then. I just loved the glowing radio dial--usually a bluish-green in the car radio, more commonly tending toward yellow at home and on old radios. Last weekend I was listening to WSM at 650 on the dial. During...

As with all my prior vintage electronics experience in this hobby, it's just based on what I accidentally happen to acquire. I'm nodding in agreement. My old electronics are mostly by chance: inheritance, gifts, and roadside orphans. The few purchases were mostly "I can't pass that up." S...

Happy Birthday!

My 1951 and 1956 tube consoles, mono, have the switch on the bass control. ????? Why not where it ought to be, on the volume control, where yu'll then be starting at law volume?

Chris Campbell

That's cool. There is another heat/magnetism issue more closely related to audio. Some audio cassettes develop deterioration of the binder that makes the tape sticky. The stickiness causes catch-and-release movement across the tape heads at a high audio frequency--a squeal that you can hear in the a...

SEnd photos of all the projects!

Chris Campbell

Looks like a restoration triumph to me! Maybe you should do a YouTube class on the printing program.

Chris Campbell

Dolly Parton embodied most of the virtues that we think of as part of our national character. She was self-made, rising by her own efforts from poverty. She as smart and hard-working. She was focused and determined. She handled celebrity with a skill that few others did. She had talent and used it e...

Last night the Grand Ole Opry had a tribute to Dolly Parton. I decided to listen to it on the 1951 Magnavox that I had recapped earlier in the summer. At first I could find nothing at 650 kHz, where WSM resides. Then I reached behind and rotated the big hinged AM antenna. Bingo! I did not realize ho...

Trip mechanisms are the Achilles' heel of all changers.

Chris Campbell

Looks good, thank you.

Chris Campbell