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Default Cool - look what I found...

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:58:45 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
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Looks like it needs work, Tom. Keeps blowing a fuse??????


That's half the fun of these old radios - find out why. On these
beasties, it's usually something really simple - like a bad wafer on a
switch or something.


Or a bad electrolytic capacitor. When I was a kid one of my friends
had one explode and put a hole in the ceiling. All of us used to
collect old radios and you never knew what would happen when they were
turned on for the first time after 30 years in someone's attic. That
was when radios had real components in them like center tapped power
transformers and type 80 rectifier tubes.