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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 rectifier,told him how to look for red-plating -but others just a little warm. He said input amps was 1 amp which sounds quite high,but line volts was around 110 ~1932 instead of the 120+ seen today. Someone had done a decent enough recap job except the two filters were Chinese... I told him i would help him do some checks and try to get it going.
 
I got this Admiral AM-FM radio for cheap about ten years ago on eBay. I wanted to listen to NPR in my workshop, and that required FM. For an original tube radio, it sounds really good. Now it's in the basement for when I'm going to be down there for any length of time. It would clean up nicely for display, but for now it's serving a purpose.

I have a late-ish '40s GE clock radio that belonged to my mom when she was still single. I had it recapped about 15 years ago, but the AM band has become such a wasteland that I boxed up that set.
 

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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 rectifier,told him how to look for red-plating -but others just a little warm. He said input amps was 1 amp which sounds quite high,but line volts was around 110 ~1932 instead of the 120+ seen today. Someone had done a decent enough recap job except the two filters were Chinese... I told him i would help him do some checks and try to get it going.
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Rectifier tubes are Supposed to run Hot, and so do audio Output tubes.
 

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