Max Eskin wrote:
> 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.
Not impossible if you wish to buy a new PC board for many times the value of
the item, even in TV and VCR's.
> 90V batteries? How big are they? How big is the radio?
Not big at all considering what an equivelant amount of C or D cells would
be piled together. If I remeber correctly they were about 1.5" thick by
about 3 inches wide and around 6 or 7 inches long. I have a Zenith AM
portable radio made of a bakelite case that is a "valved" (vac tubes) radio
that's only about 2/3 the size of the smaller 13" color TV's put out now,
and it was made to run on a 90v brick but hasn't seen one since I pulled the
leaking one out over 20 yrs ago. It was my parent's kitchen radio when I was
young, went then the basement shop but no one knew the battery was still in
it. By the time I salvaged it for my first apartment, the battery had easten
up only the contacts which were easily remade from brass sheeting. It works
like a charm and I haven't put a tube in it since the audio amp tube back in
around 1985. I turn it on roughly once a week and run it for 4-5 hrs that
day as it picks up stuff that no semiconductor radio ever could, even with a
long wire dipole antenna.
>
> >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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Received on Fri Oct 30 1998 - 21:04:17 GMT