Recent content by cfz2882

my mom still uses a Marvin twin window fan i bought her in 2001-it was the only US made fan besides Vornado I could find at the time.The Marvin has two~8" stamped metal fan blades and the whole fan is turned in the window for intake or exhaust.

The saggy jeans thing finally faded away in my area a couple years ago after having started about 1992...

I told him no suprize that rectifier tube got hotter than the other tubes-it was a #80,quite substantial rectifier for the size of radio.

Guy at work got his '30s GE radio and has not gone well so far: radio hums loudly from speaker,does not play,and he thought the transformer was burnt out because some black tar had oozed out around the leads(i advized this is normal to find) he said one tube got very hot right away-the...

GE filter flo washers agitate instead of spin when helix spring clutch is broken-similar cause with this Maytag- those in the know with Maytags could advise where this helix spring is on a Maytag

very nice and does look '30s :)

...Those wooden cabinet German radios, other European ,Japanese... :) The German ones seemed to first come our way about 1952 and always proper transformer power supply-sometimes tube rectification,sometimes flat-pack selenium bridge rectifier. Selector switches like to fall apart and spill tiny...

#11,indeed a good AA5 can pull in distant stations quite well :) Have not put my more recent find AA5s or 4 tube Meteor to proper DX tests. I have a Philco HIFI phono similar to the one Matt posted awaiting repair: made in 1954 and decent size amp.

neither does my 1980 GE top freezer ( i have replaced both fans about 15 years ago-when they got noisy). Years ago had a family reunion and ran a couple spare fridges in the yard in direct sunlight : one a 2013 model the other an old 1977 WCI Kelvinator-the Kelvinator with about 1/4 hp...

I have one like top right and like the clock radio middle shelf,and one similar if not same as big radio middle shelf :series string AMFM Japanese from about 1963

...Canadian made also -thread for "foreign"radios coming later :) Guy at work has recently gotten interested in old tube radios-especially 1930s era.He bought a mid-1930s GE in working order that someone recapped and checked the tubes: in under picks of the recapped chassis,looked like all the...

came across a video of a McIntosh 4100 under repair and it looked delightfully "old skool" inside and out-nice big transformer and filter caps and transistor heat sinks,could not count how many output transistors there was. I think the subject 4100 was from 1983.

The Bose i am most familiar with besides the 901,is the Delco-Bose stereos in certain GM cars starting in 1983: special low level output head unit outputting to amplified speaker modules-the amp in these modules especially prone to bad capacitors, probably too much heat buildup in that plastic...

I thought bose had degraded to a "BPC" brand some time ago... but this notion could be wrong? Last i knew, McIntosh was still at least assembled in USA and premium stuff worthy of analog source.I almost bought a McIntosh receiver about 1992 at a stereo store table sale: noticed the transformer...

Common for the flume to plug with a lint dam-snatches on the lid switch shaft and builds up.