[HN Gopher] 1956 Philips 353A Bakelite Vacuum Tube Radio Repair ... ___________________________________________________________________ 1956 Philips 353A Bakelite Vacuum Tube Radio Repair and Restoration Author : Tomte Score : 49 points Date : 2022-10-16 20:20 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (retrorepairsandrefurbs.com) (TXT) w3m dump (retrorepairsandrefurbs.com) | shadowofneptune wrote: | I always am amazed by how chaotic point-to-point wiring is. | Diodes hanging here, a capacitor there, with no real sense of | organization. It's such a contrast from the ordered appearance of | a PCB. | userbinator wrote: | Those of you who liked this may also enjoy this channel on | YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/glasslinger | | Also, I was able to find a free download of the service manual | very easily. | ishtanbul wrote: | If you like this, you'll probably like this restoration of these | old headphones https://youtu.be/98pUBuTar_s | madengr wrote: | Nice restoration. I have a Hallicrafters SX-62 I need to finish | restoring. It cool to see Soviet Union printed on the glass. | jrmg wrote: | I love that this is a blog post and not a video. I can read in my | own time, not disturb others around me, and really peer at the | pictures without having to pause at the exact correct moment. | baus wrote: | Nice. I repair and restore vintage tube amps as hobby. Good | distraction from software and modern tech | sizzzzlerz wrote: | Love this. When I was a kid, my friend and I used to visit radio | and TV stores to scrounge old radio chasses just like this. We | take them home, not to repair them, but to scavenge them for the | parts. We'd use these big ass soldering irons or guns to remove | the components, pull the tubes, and remove all the pots and other | mechanical parts. Once we had pulled everything we could, the | rest would go into the trash. All the parts would go into | separate storage boxes by type and by value. | | Why did we do this? Well, we told ourselves we were going to | build some ham radio equipment. Of course, we never did and all | the parts eventually got scrapped but when you're 10 years old | and summer days lasted forever, it was fun way to spend a few | hours. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-16 23:00 UTC)