[Vintage-Radio] value

[Donald Chester]

>Do not build a power supply permanently into the
>radio!  It definitely does take away from the value.
>You can either sit a power supply that isn't
>permanently connected in place of the batteries if
>they were indeed contained in the set (most were not -
>the batteries sat outside of the radio), or you can
>hook wires from the appropriate terminals to an
>external power supply.  That is fine.  If you want to
>"show off" that the set does indeed work, this works
>fine.  Also, you can use the same power supply on
>several sets.

Another possibility, if you can find some old batteries still aesthetically 
in good condx, would be to gut the original battery, preserving the battery 
cases, and building a small solid state power supply inside.  I once saw a 
setup  like t hat at the Dayton hamvention.  The only way you could tell the 
batteries weren't original was that each one had an a.c  power cord 
descretely attached to the bottom of the case.  Even the sealing wax on the 
B battery had been replaced with.original looking stuff.

Don  K4KYV

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