[NJARC] Damage control Update !

[Scott Roberts]

Congrats John-
You now have a great spare parts supply for many radios! You can either ebay or otherwise sell all as parts sets- and make some capitol, or part them out for yourself, or repair them somehow! 

I'd say the selling option is good- you can e-bay an old radio in pretty much any condition & make some money you can use for new sets to work on.

I am assuming the chassis themselves are in ok shape- usually the cases suffer, but the chassis are pretty bulletproof, unless really kerwhampered. I had a Blaupunkt receiver from the 1950s once a friend had given me after the closet it had been in collapsed. I glued the cabinet all back together(with pieces missing) taped the dial glass back together(again, with pieces missing) and gave it back to him after a checkout. Several years later, it is still working great as a garage radio...

Maybe you should post a list of the available chassis & damage to each radio to the NJARC list- might find people here who might be interested in them for rebuilds, parts, or something...

Scott

--- On Wed, 7/29/09, John Tyminski <tubeularelectronics at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Tyminski <tubeularelectronics at gmail.com>
> Subject: [NJARC] Damage control Update !
> To: njarc at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 11:15 AM
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> So far the damage totals are. 6/ 45 players, 1 Motorola
> vt71, 1 nos
> CRT for a vt71, 3 cathedral radios 4 Bakelite radios, some
> tubes and
> some ads, a Thorola horn speaker. The 6 month old metal
> roof a 6 month
> window. This stuff is trash other things where slightly
> damaged. I
> Have removed most of the tree It had red ants in it they
> bit the hell
> out of me I'm covered in welts. This week end I will
> replace the roof
> I'm so glad I used 2+12 rafters for the roof. The building
> code states
> 2+4 trusses may be used. If I did not use over kill I would
> have
> nothing left. Things can be replaced people can not! I feal
> like I am
> a winner in all this. No one was hert!
> 
> Regards John T
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