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Marcel

Marcel

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Yan Lauzon said:
That seems like a good looking radio, must have been the centerpiece of a family's living room back then.

I'd say from the style it's from post-war 1940s? AM and 3 shortwave bands. Likely a knob for tone, one for volume and one for tuning? How many tubes does it has? 7-8 perhaps?

Do you have more details of it? Was it recapped to a working order? It does look like a great piece of furniture.
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My girlfriend had it when I met her. It's not working now but doesn't seem it was emptied. I'll try to post a picture of the inside sometimes.
But it certainly is a nice piece of furniture for now.
 
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Yan Lauzon

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Marcel said:
My girlfriend had it when I met her. It's not working now but doesn't seem it was emptied. I'll try to post a picture of the inside sometimes.
But it certainly is a nice piece of furniture for now.
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If it wasn't serviced, don't connect it. 70+ year old capacitors tend to become conductive, and this on the power line can become a fire hasard.
Recapped, these old radios are amazing. Sadly, there's less and less AM stations out there.
Mine had the first implementations of modern FM still in use today, it's awesome.
 
Marcel

Marcel

Happily retired
Staff member
Super Mod
Yan Lauzon said:
If it wasn't serviced, don't connect it. 70+ year old capacitors tend to become conductive, and this on the power line can become a fire hasard.
Recapped, these old radios are amazing. Sadly, there's less and less AM stations out there.
Mine had the first implementations of modern FM still in use today, it's awesome.
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Are they expensive to service? What are they worth before service, and then after service?
 
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Yan Lauzon

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Marcel said:
Are they expensive to service? What are they worth before service, and then after service?
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The sad part is that having them serviced doesn't increase their perceived value, so the price of having it serviced is not an investment leading to a resell value.

If you can use a soldering iron, you likely can do the job for the cost of the capacitors - if it has say 7 tubes, you may have about 50-70 caps in there. Vacuum tube technology is rather simple compared to today's microprocessors.
 
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Yan Lauzon

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I like colorful buildings.
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Yan Lauzon

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That seemed like an easy shot in my head, but I had more issues than anticipated to get the colors to all look good.

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Snowy trees

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We don't have a nice blue unclouded sky very often around here but when we do, the shots are great :)
 
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Yan Lauzon

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Although winter time and work currently reduces my photographer time, I recently received this yongnuo 50mm lens I ordered from Hong Kong.
It's my first prime, and a lot of fun. I like the aperture, it's bokeh and low-light ability.

Here's one of the first shots I took with it.

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I'll surely use it often
 
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