Classic Hifi Care

hey there, been repairing / restoring tube and SS electronics since 1972, Radio Shack manager in 77-78 in Brooklyn, NY, now retired in NC and supplementing my retirement with audio work for local owners as well as a busy volunteer pro bono restorer for the Asheville Radio Museum. arrived here while searching for info on motorola consoles.

request for help to follow, THX

Welcome aboard, Randy, we are happy you found our little group and what we really appreciate is that you followed the "RULES" which if important if you wanted to actually become a member. Like all forums, and other internet stuff, we get spambots so following the rules, completing what is requested, helps us to know who is a real person and not a spambot.

Again, welcome, post often, we love photos, and I think you will find a good group here willing to help and answer questions.

For my curiosity, please tell me/us more about the Ashville Radio Museum.



Bill

thanks, Bill good to be here!

questions forthcoming

Welcome aboard, Randy! Bill welcomed you better than I could, so what he said goes for me as well....

I am going to move your topic about your Motorola stereo to the Motorola board. People will be more apt to see it there. I look forward to you sharing your projects with the forum.....

Welcome Randy,

We welcome your expertise in vintage electronics !

randyrago wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2026 1:39 pm hey there, been repairing / restoring tube and SS electronics since 1972, Radio Shack manager in 77-78 in Brooklyn, NY, now retired in NC and supplementing my retirement with audio work for local owners as well as a busy volunteer pro bono restorer for the Asheville Radio Museum. arrived here while searching for info on motorola consoles.

Just looked at your radio museum site. Looks interesting. It is a bit sobering to see a few items that I remember being new.

I'll give a link to the Music House Museum in Acme (just N of Traverse City, MI). They began wit mechanical music devices and expanded. They have a 1924 Wurlitzer theater organ and a 1922 Mortier dance hall mechanical organ, their largest pieces, but also electronica. I donated a Lincoln recrd-flipping changer.

https://musichouse.org/

Chris Campbell

Mystery solved

Owner told me it was a motorola SK76

Its actually a SK74. Now all of the chassis numbers match.

Correct information does help! Now for the fun part, let the restoration begin and if we can help, just ask.

Randy, do you have the chassis numbers that you could share with us?

Bill

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 testers to ditch the duds. I started at age 10 building kits such as the AM transmitter and before that, a crystal radio on a red p-box (?) that pulled in three local stations (slightly selectable with tuning coil using a diode, earphone and photocell.

I treasure that experience of having those two great stores plus TV parts houses in Reading and Moyers in Pottsville PA. Before I could even drive - 1975, I was doing TV house calls for folks in the countryside who didn't have cable and wanted better UHF reception OR had a 10 YO set and were told it was time for new TV. The console bug didn't bite until I was 50, so there you have it.

I'm glad you joined this great bunch of guys in the hobby of electronics, radio, and HiFi.