I don't know if that's what I want to hear.
I'm still after working chassis, and the way I figure to
target them on the cheap is to find potential in cabinets
that I think are beyond repair.

If I got a nice radio or two to get my money back,
that would be great, finding a good old speaker for mine
would also be great, so would some learning.

Hobbies are crap without goals. I want the Silicon Chip article,
and have considered two approaches:

A left hand side restoration of a rusty chassis,
where only the left side is restored.
complete disassembly, sockets out, sand/respray,
1mm tolerance for the line between the two sides,
preferably without causing harm to the spiders and webs
living in the right hand side. Possibly new production components.

2.
A vintage chassis with digital front end that maintains it's
analogue tuner. Small mono LCD display (alpha or dot matrix), frequency counter on a microcontroller,
and two stepper motors geared at different resolutions for fine and course control of the tuning capacitor's belt.

I am working toward the second.
I did initially think the whole valve radio thing would be a
week of investigation before going on my merry way and doing my thing.

I see you had to beat 6 other bidders within driving distance of Rosewood - so a few people thought there was some value in that lot. By the time you've sorted them, I think you'll be hooked for life. Digital is so last year.

Maven

I fell in love with it when I saw it, and again when I heard it, and hated it for some time in-between.

If anyone wants either of these, and can pick up from Ipswich, let me know:

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Philips is nice cabinet, has radio, broken tuning gear, no valves.
May or may not have a speaker.

1930's cabinet has no radio or speaker.

I don't mean to sound posh or stuck up, but I've made the move to stereo now.

It had a gramophone. It worked straight up, both channels.
One of the valves flashes brightly for a second both times I turned it on,
but sounds great. I thought the valve was stuffed for sure, it was so bright.
It would be good to get a modern input into this one from the grammophone input.

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This one makes noise, but no radio, but the clock works fine

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This one I've taken a liking to, there's five valves in there, and it's like a brick of steel.
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It's a real mess though, no valves present, and wires cut everywhere,
it would be easiest to find a schematic and start again.
Looks like a PA amp as well, so I can save all my neighbours paying for a radio licence by blasting it up the street 24/7. That will make me popular.

That National "brick" looks like a school, church or workplace unit. School units usually combined a switch panel to select the speakers in different classrooms. There was some discussion on these in the thread that started on Baffle Boards a few weeks back. Worth checking out the history if possible.

Maven

I'll check it out. It's the most interesting looking.

I was able to repurpose a 60's Kriesler Stereophonic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6PuP8fir9o.

Hi art, that collection was a friend of mines some of those radios used to be mine Inc the nice blonde Motorola Steve is a top guy and collector and great to deal with
Good lot!! If you ever get up noosa way pop in and say hello
To me haha

Great, perhaps you could send me his mobile number again
He's not far away from me.
I did have it, we had to make arrangements,
and he also said I could ring again, it might be appropriate to check with him first.

His idea of junk and my idea of junk were not exactly the same,
and I regret giving away that old dummy cabinet now that I'd like to practice on one :rolleyes:

He didn't seem particularly interested in selling things,
but I would like to know ahead of time if that ever happens again.
I wouldn't buy a big lot again, but I would certainly want to see the stuff

Also he had a lot of junk chassis I'd really like to look at now.

What Motorolla? I don't remember one, It wasn't one I got working.