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From: Max Eskin <maxeskin_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat Oct 31 20:44:15 1998

Most things under ten years old can't be repaired because they have
weird custom chips. I guess the corporations did an excellent job
convincing people that a machine should die, and be replaced,
impossible to repair. 90V batteries? How big are they? How big is the
radio?
>Yes, _you'd_ fix it. I'd fix it, and I guess other people here would do
>the same. But the general public seem to think that anything over 3
years
>old can't be repaired..
>
>One of the radios I use here from time to time is a 1950's Vidor
portable
>radio with the FM band. It's valved. I got it second hand and it needed
>very little work to get it going again - mostly cleaning contacts and
>valveholders. I think all the valves are original as well. I've made a
>little mains PSU for it as 90V batteries are difficult to find
nowadays.
>
>And I don't consider a set of that age that still works to be unusual
at all.
>
>-tony
>

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