[Boatanchors] Circuit Preservation (was: 2013 myth)

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Cromwell" <wrcromwell at gmail.com>

> Owners who want "museum quality" will not do this, of course, but that 
> is a personal choice. My own choice is obviously different and I think 
> the original intent was to apply electricity and an antenna and get 
> those radios on the air...a viewpoint that also supports the "museum 
> quality" idea but from a different direction.

YMMV and IMHO of course:
I call radios that are kept with all their original parts in-circuit 
and thus, are non-working,  "mummies."
In my experiance,  dead radio "mummies" 
generate no more than momentary, passing interest.   
Working old radios get attention. 
Attention is what's needed to assure the radios find 
another caretaker once I am gone.

So I try to strike a balance between preservation of 
the original circuits and making the radio play.
Sometimes, running the radio on reduced B+
works; some of  my "rare" sets are run this way.
If a part must be replaced, I will clip one end 
of the bad part and "tack-in" a good one around it.
This isn't always practical and in those cases, 
a working radio which will find a new owner 
takes priority over a dead mummy, which may not.

73 DE Dave AB5S