Like I need more projects (or radio's)... tonight I picked up 4 radio's at a local auction house. A Bakelite Admiral AM/Phono in rough shape, one I didn't even look at (50's vintage AM/FM), a nice Atwater Kent 33 and a nice Atwater Kent 46.

Richard:

Like the rest of us you have the disease. What that means is if you have SOME radios you always need MORE radios!!I think I have reached critical mass here after collecting for 40+ years.

Lou

:Like I need more projects (or radio's)... tonight I picked up 4 radio's at a local auction house. A Bakelite Admiral AM/Phono in rough shape, one I didn't even look at (50's vintage AM/FM), a nice Atwater Kent 33 and a nice Atwater Kent 46.
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:

:Lou, nice finds, How many radios do you have at this time? Richard is right it can become a disease. I have so many radios to restore that I don't know if I'm coming or going. LOL I have a hole heard of finished radios that are like my children and I would sure hate to part with them. But the project out number the good ones by two to one. I have so many radios to repair for customers that I can't even get to my own 10 or 15 projects. I like to do the electronics but I also do the cabinets and that can be very time consuming. Try to keep it under control, you'll be a lot happier. George T

:Richard:

:
:Like the rest of us you have the disease. What that means is if you have SOME radios you always need MORE radios!!I think I have reached critical mass here after collecting for 40+ years.
:
:Lou
:
::Like I need more projects (or radio's)... tonight I picked up 4 radio's at a local auction house. A Bakelite Admiral AM/Phono in rough shape, one I didn't even look at (50's vintage AM/FM), a nice Atwater Kent 33 and a nice Atwater Kent 46.
::
::
::
::
::
::
::
::
::
:
:

My first pieces of Antique Radio equipment I bought in the spring of 1973 from an antique store in Occoquan VA, it was a home-made 2 tube amplifier and a crystal set (each in its own box) from the 20's. That summer I picked up an Emerson in an Ingraham case at a yard sale. Summer of '74 I found a Hallicrafters S38C in the green case at a yard sale. The addiction didn't bite until 1975 when I bought a GE A70 from "Big Don's Bargain Barn' in Knoxville while visiting the grandparents, and a Precision 612 Tube Tester with a box of tubes. My next acquisition which sealed my fate was a Neutrowound 1927 which was fresh from the chicken coup it had been stored in (what a cleanup job!). After that the collection grew by leaps and bounds... in the mid 80's I moved and pared the collection down by selling off about 100 radio's and numerous pickup truck loads of parts sets and parts. The current collection (more awaiting restoration than restored) stands between 200 and 300 radio's and about 100 pieces of test equipment, countless tubes (10's of thousands), countless boxes and bins of radio parts and a room full of books, manuals and printed materials.

Richard

:Richard:
:
:Like the rest of us you have the disease. What that means is if you have SOME radios you always need MORE radios!!I think I have reached critical mass here after collecting for 40+ years.
:
:Lou

:OMG !!! I'm impressed. I was wondering why it is so hard to find radios at garage sales, sounds like you got them all. LOL My wife would skin me alive. Best Regards, George T

:My first pieces of Antique Radio equipment I bought in the spring of 1973 from an antique store in Occoquan VA, it was a home-made 2 tube amplifier and a crystal set (each in its own box) from the 20's. That summer I picked up an Emerson in an Ingraham case at a yard sale. Summer of '74 I found a Hallicrafters S38C in the green case at a yard sale. The addiction didn't bite until 1975 when I bought a GE A70 from "Big Don's Bargain Barn' in Knoxville while visiting the grandparents, and a Precision 612 Tube Tester with a box of tubes. My next acquisition which sealed my fate was a Neutrowound 1927 which was fresh from the chicken coup it had been stored in (what a cleanup job!). After that the collection grew by leaps and bounds... in the mid 80's I moved and pared the collection down by selling off about 100 radio's and numerous pickup truck loads of parts sets and parts. The current collection (more awaiting restoration than restored) stands between 200 and 300 radio's and about 100 pieces of test equipment, countless tubes (10's of thousands), countless boxes and bins of radio parts and a room full of books, manuals and printed materials.
:
:Richard
:
::Richard:
::
::Like the rest of us you have the disease. What that means is if you have SOME radios you always need MORE radios!!I think I have reached critical mass here after collecting for 40+ years.
::
::Lou
: